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This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Head of Engineering: Financial Data Experience At Adyen, payments and money movement are central to what we do. As the Head of Engineering for Financial Data Experience, you make sure our customers never have to work out where their money went. You build the datasets and experiences that our global merchants, regulators and Adyen Finance rely on to trust their numbers. Each of them receives fully explained financial data in a format they can verify and audit. You do this by defining what a payment, a fee, a payout or a correction looks like to a customer, and what our reconciliation experiences and reports actually show. This role bridges the gap between Adyen's internal ledger complexity and the unified, customer-facing money movement experience. The goal is an automated, self-serve, trustworthy experience. What You Will Do As Head of Engineering, reporting to the SVP of Engineering and working with peers across Payments, Financial Products, Platform, Compliance and Finance, your focus will be: Own the customer-facing model of money movement for merchants, regulators, and Adyen Finance, ensuring data reflects the merchant's entities and periods rather than mirroring internal systems. Own how that data is delivered: datasets, reports, files and dashboards, on the same terms for every team that publishes through us. Create an e

At bunq, People is a core business function. We use data, technology and automation to help our people perform at their best and enable bunq to scale internationally. As VP/ Head of People, you will turn bunq’s mission and business priorities into a clear global People strategy. You’ll take ownership of hiring, performance, development and retention, ensuring every initiative solves a real business problem and delivers measurable results. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong commercial judgment with genuine People expertise. You’ll identify bottlenecks, improve systems and work closely with leaders to build high-performing teams and an environment where people can grow and succeed. Take ownership Understand bunq’s mission, vision and business priorities. Translate them into a clear, outcome-driven People strategy. Build scalable systems that help employees perform, develop and succeed. Hire and retain the right people in roles where they can make the greatest impact. Provide employees with the tools, training and feedback they need to perform at their best. Help leaders set clear expectations, develop their teams and address underperformance. Strengthen a culture built on connection, ownership and high performance. Continuously improve People initiatives using data, feedback and measurable outcomes. Proven experience building and scaling data-driven People systems across hiring, onboarding, performance, development and retention. A track record of identifying the most important bottlenecks across the employee lifecycle and delivering practical improvements with measurable results. Strong commercial judgment, including experience owning People budgets, developing compensation and benefits structures, and setting salary benchmarks across multiple markets. The ability to connect People priorities and investments directly to company goals, operational needs and business outcomes. Experience attracting, assessing and retaining exceptional ta

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. About this role The future of Operations at Adyen is built on data-driven autonomy. As AI increasingly automates the mechanics of data retrieval and trend summarization, the real value shifts to the human layer: framing the right problems, validating rigorously, and turning insight into action. You'll lead an analytics and insights function of around 10 people: a Team Lead overseeing 1 Data Engineer and 4–5 technical analysts on Foundational Data Integrity, plus roughly 4 Business Analysts focused on Business Insights, reporting directly into you. You'll support an Operations organization of over 1,000 people, working closely with the Global Operations Leadership team to turn this function from a reporting service into the strategic engine behind how Ops leadership makes decisions. What you'll do Lead and evolve the team: Set a clear vision for how the team supports business performance, planning, and decision-making, and build a high-performing group that balances responsiveness with strategic focus. Partner with senior leaders: Act as a trusted thought partner to Operations leadership on business performance, risks, opportunities, and trade-offs. Support business performance reviews with concise narratives, root-cause analysis, and clear recommendations. Own performance insight and business storytelling: Ensure the team delivers h

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Head of Forward Deployed Engineering - Operations This role focuses on moving beyond isolated pilots and volunteer-led activity, and building a more deliberate approach to re-engineering work through AI, automation, and better operating design. This role will lead that for Ops. It will set the direction for what an AI-native, and highly leveraged operations model should look like, help identify where the biggest opportunities sit, and create the structure that allows domain-owned use cases to turn into real outcomes. Domain leads will remain accountable for the impact delivered in their own areas. This role exists to bring the thought leadership, technical credibility, outside-in perspective, and driving force needed to help make that happen across the function. Head of Forward Deployed Engineering - Operations Set the AI and innovation direction for Operations, with a clear view of what will create the most meaningful step change in customer experience, productivity, quality, and scalability. Work with the domains to identify and prioritise the use cases that matter most, based on business value, feasibility, and readiness. Lead the central Ops innovation model, including the structure, ways of working, and foundations needed for domain-led re-engineering to succeed. Lead a small team of Forward Deployed AI

At bunq , users trust us with their money across 30+ countries, and that trust is only worth something if the legal framework behind it is airtight, proactive, and scales as fast as we do. We're heading towards our North Star and entering new markets, that doesn't happen without someone owning the legal infrastructure behind it: the strategy, the team, the AI-first operating model, and the accountability that makes all of it run without the Head of Legal in the loop every day. Take Ownership. As our Head of Trust & Transparency, you will: Be the layer between legal strategy and the team that executes it , translating quarterly priorities into clear ownership, running the accountability cycle, and making sure only real decisions reach the Head of Legal. Take bunq's AI tooling for contract review, T&C management, and regulatory monitoring to the next level , building an operating model that handles 5x the volume without 5x the headcount. Give the business a clear, honest picture of T&T health across the pillar, so risks get caught early, quality stays high, and the function scales as fast as bunq does. You are a qualified lawyer with a Master's degree in Law and a strong background in financial services. You've independently run a compliance or legal function across multiple jurisdictions, not just supported one. You've had direct dialogue with regulators and know how to represent a legal position without a script. You've managed a small specialist legal team, set their KPIs, and held them to it. You can challenge senior leadership with data and translate complex regulatory risk into something a decision-maker can act on in two minutes. You design AI systems, not just use them, you've eliminated manual legal work at scale and built workflows others now rely on. You know the difference between work that's on time and work that's good, and you've built the frameworks that make that distinction measurable. You make judgment calls on what gets automated, what stays human,

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here). Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000+ customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started. Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit. AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us as a People Operations Manager — Netherlands & International Expansion and help build the people foundations for Qonto’s geographic expansion. Based in Amsterdam, you’ll own day-to-day People Operations for the Netherlands, improve local policies and processes, and help establish our people setup in new markets. Working closely with local leaders, People Business Partners and Compensation & Benefits, you’ll turn local requirements and employee needs into reliable, scalable practices. You’ll join our People Operations team and report to Julia Lecointe, Head of People Operations. ➡️ What you'll do Employee experience: Be the local People Operations point of contact for employees and managers, managing onboarding, offboarding, absences and day-to-day HR

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Team Lead - Transactions We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic leader based in Amsterdam to join our global Legal Deal Desk team. The Deal Desk operates as a global function within the Commercial Legal team, and you will serve as one of four Team Leads reporting to the Head of Deal Desk. As a Team Lead on Deal Desk, you will manage and lead a lean team of commercial lawyers who negotiate contracts with our vendors and commercial partners. The role requires a leader with strong commercial contracting expertise who can act as a trusted advisor to senior internal stakeholders, while building and developing a high-performing team. You must have a strong drafting and negotiation background across a variety of complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements and be able to leverage sophisticated legal expertise and communication skills into tangible, scalable value that accelerates Adyen's global growth. What you will do: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of high-caliber, pragmatic commercial lawyers who draft, review, and negotiate complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial agreements with our vendors and commercial partners. Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice to senior stakeholders across procurement, partnerships, product, and regulatory teams globally, including on our contracting principles, commercial p