Head of Regulatory - EMEA

Job description

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 Regulatory – EMEA Adyen is seeking a strategic, high-impact, and visionary regulatory leader to serve as our Head of Regulatory – EMEA. In this role, you will be a senior leader in our Global Regulatory organization - including direct responsible for leading our Regional Counsel teams and Regulatory Strategy & Risk teams across EMEA . Adyen is principally an EU-licensed credit institution with home-state supervision in the Netherlands. As such, Adyen’s regulatory footprint and licensing advantages in Europe form the strategic blueprint for what is possible for our business worldwide. You will lead a high-caliber team of senior regulatory experts who serve as the critical bridge between European supervisory expectations and our "Global-First" regulatory architecture. In this role, you will elevate our financial licensing position as a core differentiator in Adyen's right to win—transforming regulatory complexity into commercial opportunity and powering sustainable, controlled growth to achieve our ambition as the most customer-focused financial technology platform in the world. What you’ll do • Unite & Lead the EMEA Regulatory Function • Provide overarching leadership and strategic direction across the EMEA Regulatory function - ensuring Adyen’s regulatory posture and supervisory relationships enable Adyen’s next phase of growth. ○ Serve as a true content and people leader for a senior team of regulatory experts, keeping them deeply connected to Adyen’s broader corporate strategy and global regulatory vision while navigating the dynamics of a fast-paced, highly regulated global business. • Cross-Functional 2LoD Leadership & Supervisory Presence • Act as a senior cross-functional leader across Adyen’s Second Line of Defense (Legal, Compliance, Risk, Internal Control and Data Privacy Office), building deep, collaborative relationships with leadership peers. • Position the EMEA Regulatory team as the essential first-analysis layer for emerging laws, regulations, and supervisory expectations across European markets, ensuring seamless translation into 2LoD risk frameworks and operational builds - in connection with their 2LoD counterparts. • Drive strategic engagement with key prudential and conduct regulators (including the DNB, FCA, ACPR, Bafin [and ECB]), positioning Adyen favorably and building long-term supervisory trust. • Global Regulatory Leadership Integration • Serve as a core member of the Global Regulatory Leadership Team, ensuring EMEA’s regulatory insights and licensing frameworks actively inform and shape our global baseline. • Partner seamlessly across our global domains: working in lockstep with Global Product Counsel (to orchestrate product enablement), Global Policy (to operationalize outcomes-based supervisory goals), and Global Partnerships (to enable scalable partner rails). • People Leadership & Adyen Leadership Expectations • Build a best-in-class team: Hire, develop, and retain top-tier regulatory leaders and SMEs; cultivate a diverse, inclusive, and agile environment; maintain an uncompromising quality threshold. • Define success for your team: Set a clear strategic direction for EMEA Regulatory aligned with Adyen's ultimate commercial ambitions; empower senior team membe