Senior Product Manager - Domestic Card Schemes

In this role you shape the domestic card schemes strategy within Adyen’s EMEA payments team, driving adoption and innovation across local schemes. You will align with merchants’ needs, partners, and cross-payment-method initiatives to deliver timely, value-driven solutions. You lead with a strategic mindset, influence across multiple workstreams, and own impact metrics. This is an opportunity to influence how merchants get paid regionally and to scale trusted payment methods.

• Set strategy and roadmap for domestic card schemes and shape the wider payment method portfolio
• Own scheme and partner relationships via roadmap alignment, specification updates, and escalations with scheme operators
• Drive delivery by writing clear product requirements and coordinating with engineering on connections, tokenisation, Tap to Pay and authentication
• Lead team-wide initiatives by taking ideas to launch across payment methods
• Create the commercial case and define success metrics (authorization rate, cost, adoption) in collaboration with sales, pricing, and account management
• Influence cross-functionally by aligning engineering, in-person and e-commerce payments, partner teams, and operations, escalating trade-offs to leadership

• 8+ years of product management experience in payments or fintech
• Strong understanding of card processing and how schemes, acquirers, hosts and terminals fit together
• Technical credibility to read API and message specs (ISO 8583 or similar) and discuss architecture with engineers
• Strategic thinking with ability to translate open-ended questions into a clear roadmap
• Strong stakeholder skills with external partners and schemes and ability to set expectations
• Commercial and data-driven mindset to explain margins and measure outcomes
• Proven ability to lead through influence across multiple workstreams, markets, and time zones
• Clear written communication for product requirements that engineers and agents can act on

• Stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking
• Clear communication
• API and message specifications (ISO 8583 or similar)
• Architecture discussions with engineers
• Tokenisation