{"id":"3560735800","title":"Head of Developer Relations","posted_at":"2026-03-01T08:08:33.000Z","apply_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/7283103","locations":["Chicago"],"employment_type":null,"workplace_type":null,"seniority_level":"mid","description_language":"en","source_name":"greenhouse","source_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/7283103","salary":{"min":180000,"max":267000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","display":"$180,000–$267,000"},"job_summary":null,"job_description":null,"description_text":"This is Adyen\n\nAdyen 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. \n\nFor 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.\n\nHead of Developer Relations\n\nWe’re looking for a Head of Developer Relations to help shape and scale an industry-leading developer experience for Adyen’s customers and partners. This is a strategic, product-focused role within our Developer Experience (DevX) group. Your influence will stretch from internal engineering teams to the external developers building on our platform every day.\n\nIn this role, you’ll play a key part in co-leading Adyen’s global Developer Experience strategy by partnering deeply with engineers, product teams, and external developers to drive meaningful improvements to our platform. Your goal is to ensure that developers have a seamless, powerful experience building on Adyen – and that their voice directly influences our roadmap.\n\nYou’ll champion a content strategy and turn friction logs into product opportunities, ensuring developers’ feedback is heard, understood, and acted upon. At the same time, you’ll help grow and lead a team of developer advocates who empower developers and guide them toward long-term success with Adyen. The focus is on driving real product impact through technical insight, empathy for developers, and strong internal alignment.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nBuild an industry-leading developer experience\n\nChampion the end-to-end developer journey across Adyen’s APIs, SDKs, documentation, and tooling - with a relentless focus on removing friction and increasing adoption.\n\nDesign and scale structured feedback loops with developers (customers, partners, and the broader ecosystem) to identify pain points and surface actionable insights.\n\nCo-lead Adyen’s Developer Experience strategy and execution\n\nCollaborate with engineers, product designers, and product managers  to prioritize and shape features based on real developer needs. Identify and address friction, inconsistencies, and gaps across the developer experience - from onboarding to ongoing usage.\n\nCo-develop go-to-market strategies for new developer-facing tools and capabilities. Oversee our developer experience content strategy and the creation of high-quality content like tutorials, blog posts, and videos in close collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing.\n\nBe a trusted technical counterpart to customers and partners\n\nBuild trusted relationships with high-impact developers in our customer and partner ecosystem.\n\nRun early adopter programs, conduct listening tours, leverage friction logs and engage in strategic technical conversations that shape how we build.\n\nLead our community engagement efforts\n\nRepresent Adyen authentically in developer communities through blogs, meetups, open discussions, and conferences. Foster relationships with key influencers and community leaders in the developer space.\n\nFocus on building meaningful relationships with the community rather than just brand visibility - but collaborating with marketing where useful.\n\nLead and scale the developer advocacy function\n\nGrow and manage a high-performing team of developer advocates. Set direction, mentor team members, and ensure alignment with the broader DevX strategy.\n\nFoster a culture of curiosity, empathy, and technical excellence - always rooted in driving product value.\n\nWho You Are\n\nYou have deep empathy for developers and a strong technical foundation - you’ve built or supported APIs, SDKs, dev tools, integrations, or products meant to improve developer experience.\n\nYou’re a strong communicator, able to translate technical feedback into product opportunities - and vice versa. You are comfortable representing Adyen in front of internal and external technical audiences, including senior product and engineering leaders at customer organizations.\n\nYou have a strategic mindset, closely follow industry trends and like to try getting hands-on experience with new technology.\n\nYou’ve worked closely with product and engineering teams and know how to advocate for user needs in a way that drives meaningful product improvement. You thrive in cross-functional environments - partnering across engineering, product, implementation, and commercial teams.\n\nYou have experience in community engagement, but you care most about influencing the product. You understand how community and product advocacy can reinforce one another when done right.\n\nWhat You Need to Succeed\n\nTrack Record: 8+ years of experience in developer advocacy, developer relations, or a related technical role, ideally in fintech or big tech.\n\nLeadership: 5+ years of experience leading teams.\n\nTechnical Skills: Deep understanding of APIs, SDKs, and developer tools. As well as expertise in one or two major programming languages.\n\nStrategic Thinking: Strong ability to design and execute plans that drive developer adoption and engagement.  Fast learner with a passion for technology and a launch-fast-iterate mindset.\n\nCommunication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics. Confident public speaker and experienced presenter in both technical and business contexts. Full professional proficiency in English.\n\nProduct Collaboration: Proven experience working closely with product and engineering to influence roadmaps and deliver improvements.\n\nTeam-first Approach: Collaborative, low-ego leader who prioritizes the growth and success of the team.\n\nGlobal Outlook: International experience is preferred.\n\nOther Job Details\n\nWe have a hybrid workplace and value in-person collaboration; this is not a remote-only role.\n\nSome domestic and international travel is required (mostly US and Europe).\n\nThe annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $267,000, plus RSUs; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please click here. This position is based out of the Chicago office.\n\nOur Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments \n\nOur unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. \n\nStudies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!\n\nWhat’s next?\n\nEnsuring 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.\n\nAdyen is an equal opportunity employer. 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