Senior Social Impact Program Manager (Nonprofits)

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.

We also believe businesses have a meaningful role to play in creating positive societal change. 

Adyen’s Social Impact team exists to enable employees to support causes they care about, generate positive impact in the communities where we operate, and across our key cause areas: education, environmental sustainability and emergencies. Across Adyen Impact, we work to enable the full potential of our ecosystem, ensuring that our social initiatives are deeply integrated with our core business to create scalable, impactful solutions.

The Opportunity

Senior Social Impact Program Manager (Nonprofits)

We're looking for an experienced Impact Manager to lead and evolve Adyen's nonprofit partnership strategy across our impact model spanning engagements, grants and fundraising.

In this role, you'll oversee Adyen's nonprofit ecosystem, building a scalable approach to nonprofit engagement and continuously improving how organizations work with Adyen across grants, community programs and our Adyen Giving product.

Beyond nonprofit partnerships, you’ll shape our emergency response strategy, partnering with product, partnerships, commercial and social impact teams to ensure customers and employees can contribute to crisis response with speed and scale. You’ll manage strategic relationships with organizations including UNHCR, the Red Cross, WWF and our nonprofit technology partner, Goodstack.

As a strategic thinker, you enjoy turning complexity into scalable solutions and collaborating in a commercial and fast-moving environment. You understand the opportunities and challenges facing the nonprofit sector and believe that strong collaboration between business and nonprofits can create lasting impact.

What You’ll Do

• Nonprofit Partnership Strategy
• Lead Adyen's global nonprofit portfolio, including strategic nonprofit partners, grantees and the Goodstack partnership.
• Develop and execute a scalable nonprofit partnership strategy aligned with Adyen's impact priorities and business objectives.
• Identify, evaluate and cultivate high-impact partnerships that create measurable outcomes for communities, customers and employees.
• Own our partnership with Goodstack, defining partnership priorities, identifying growth opportunities and and partnering with internal stakeholders responsible for Goodstack-enabled products, including nonprofit onboarding, verification and the Community Impact platform.
• Emergency Response Strategy
• Develop a cohesive emergency response strategy across product, grants and community programs, enabling Adyen to respond quickly and effectively to crises while continuing to invest in prevention and resilience.
• Bring nonprofit and humanitarian expertise into product, program and strategic decisions across Impact teams.
• Grants Portfolio Optimization
• Standardize and continuously improve the nonprofit experience across Adyen’s customer-led, employee-led and Adyen-led grant programs.
• Strengthen grant processes, governance and scalability to enable effective partnerships and impact delivery.
• Ecosystem Engagement & Insights 
• Stay informed on trends in corporate impact, humanitarian response, nonprofit sector trends and opportunities.
• Represent Adyen with nonprofit leaders, customers and in external forums. Identify emerging opportunities to strengthen Adyen’s impact offering and approach.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience with at least 3-5 years in a corporate impact team, corporate foundation, family office, or managing corporate partnerships within a nonprofit organization.
• Strategic thinker who translates complex challenges into scalable solutions, balancing long-term vision with strong execution.
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities that create value for nonprofits, customers and Adyen.
• Proactive problem solver who thrives in ambiguity, adapts quickly and drives solutions independently.
• Experience managing strategic partnerships and engaging senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborative partner and mentor who enjoys supporting the growth and development of others.
• Passionate about building partnerships that deliver meaningful impact while remaining pragmatic about what it takes to operate and scale effectively.
• Comfortable working with tooling and systems that leverage AI to improve ways of working, accelerate problem-solving and create more efficient and scalable approaches to enabling impact.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our 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. 

Studies 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!

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 7 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role and summer season availabilities. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

Location & Work Expectations

• This role is based in Amsterdam.
• We have a hybrid workplace (3 days in-office) and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles