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.
Payments Optimization Analyst
We are looking for an experienced Optimization Manager to join our Performance Optimization team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing full-funnel payment performance to drive tangible business impact and optimize merchant success at scale.
As an OM, you will be a key contributor in delivering our optimisation strategies and value add to our customers. You will partner with Commercial, Professional Services, and Product teams to develop data-driven insights, self-service analytics, and scalable automation solutions. You will also engage directly with key customers to enhance payment performance across risk, authentication, tokenization and authorization rates, driving higher approval rates, lower fraud, and cost efficiencies through optimization. Additionally, you will help upsell Adyen’s optimization products (e.g., Protect, Uplift) by acting as a bridge between customers , commercial and product teams, translating actionable data insights into value propositions that highlight Adyen’s capabilities.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in payments optimization strategies and cross-functional collaboration with the ability to translate complex findings into actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What you'll do
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)