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.
As Management Consultant, the applicant will be responsible for advising on our strategic partnership management program with global card networks—developing and defining proactive partnership strategies, advising on complex contract negotiations, and developing processes for aligning external partners with internal stakeholders to advance payments innovation.
More specifically, the applicant will be responsible for the following duties:
- Analyze and advise on strategic partnership frameworks with global card networks by evaluating market positioning, partnership structures, and industry trends within the payments ecosystem.
- Develop and present strategic recommendations regarding partner engagement models, contractual approaches, and long-term collaboration strategies to support innovation initiatives.
- Provide consultative support for complex commercial negotiations by preparing analytical assessments, financial impact summaries, and strategic alignment evaluations for internal decision-makers.
- Conduct financial analyses for proposed initiatives, assessing commercial scalability, cost-benefit considerations, and revenue implications to guide executive-level strategy.
- Evaluate tradeoffs between commercial opportunities and product constraints and deliver independent, data-driven recommendations to support informed business decisions.
- Advise product, commercial, and finance teams on go-to-market strategies, supported by market research, competitive benchmarking, and trend analysis.
- Provide industry and market insight reports to inform product development and commercialization strategies without direct responsibility for implementation or operational management.
- Prepare written analyses, strategic reports, and executive presentations summarizing findings and recommendations for senior leadership review.
The Management Consultant role is supernumerary in nature and does not represent a permanent or ongoing staffing position within the company. The beneficiary is being engaged temporarily to provide independent, advisory consulting services in connection with specific business initiatives.
The company maintains a fully staffed operational structure, and the beneficiary will not replace or displace any existing U.S. worker, nor assume a line management or operational role. Instead, the beneficiary will function outside the regular organizational hierarchy, providing strategic analysis, evaluations, and recommendations to support internal decision-making.
The engagement is project-based and time-limited, focused on discrete consulting objectives, including the assessment of partnership strategies, financial performance considerations, and go-to-market planning. Upon completion of these objectives, the consulting engagement will conclude, and the role will no longer be required.
The beneficiary will not have authority over day-to-day operations, personnel management, or implementation of recommendations. All final decisions and execution activities will remain with the company’s permanent employees.
What’s next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The annual base salary range for this role is $169,000 - $220,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here.
This role is based out of our San Francisco office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
San Francisco
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