Team Lead Account Management

4 Weeks ago • 6 Years + • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Adyen is seeking a Team Lead Account Management for its DACH region in Berlin. This role involves managing and coaching a team of account managers to provide excellent service to enterprise merchants, focusing on efficiency and proactivity. Responsibilities include building strong merchant relationships, accelerating product adoption, consulting stakeholders, demonstrating value, driving commercial growth, and identifying new service opportunities. The team lead will also manage daily operations, support escalations, lead hiring and development, define commercial objectives, and collaborate with marketing and sales teams. The role requires driving initiatives to improve automation and scale account management, ensuring higher productivity and customer satisfaction.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of customer-facing experience (Account Management, Customer Success, or Sales)
  • 2+ years of people management experience
  • Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
  • Strong negotiation skills and business acumen
  • Ability to distill complex ideas
  • Collaborative and approachable leadership style
  • Motivated by team success
  • Full professional proficiency in English and German
Good to have:
  • Experience with merchants in the Platforms space
  • Experience leading hiring processes and onboarding

Job Details

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.

Team Lead Account Management DACH (Berlin)

Our AM team in Berlin provides the best experience to our portfolio of enterprise, fast-growth merchants. We achieve this using a dedicated Account Management approach focusing on efficiency and proactivity, regularly reaching out to our merchants to identify additional service opportunities, such as international payment methods, fraud management services, or point-of-sale opportunities. With a strategic mindset and hands-on approach, this team drives growth and retention in our German portfolio as we scale.

Here are some examples of your team's responsibilities: 

  • Build strong relationships with your merchants
  • Accelerate product adoption
  • Consult and train key stakeholders 
  • Demonstrate value, drive (commercial) growth, show impact to merchants 
  • Work closely with the other teams to determine new features for merchants based on their needs 
  • Manage time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives and projects in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial environment 

What you'll do

As the Team Lead of AM, your role and some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Team management: you are lucky to start with a great team and they deserve a leader; committed to help them grow and give their best. You will coach, support, manage workload and keep the work fair and fun;
  • Lead the day to day: when needed, get involved in operational tasks, help building C-level relationships, and support the team in merchant escalation calls or critical negotiations;
  • Hire, develop and retain diverse talents: the team needs to keep growing to support our commercial and strategic ambitions;
  • Co-define and monitor Commercial OKRs achievement every year on a team and individual level;
  • Align and collaborate with local Marketing, Sales, Partnership & Account Management to provide outstanding Customer Experience to merchants; 
  • Drive initiatives and projects together with other AM Leads to strengthen our efforts towards automation, smarter usage of commercial tools  and "Account Management at scale” to achieve higher productivity and increased customer satisfaction;

Who you are 

  • 6+ years of experience in a customer-facing role, preferably Account Management, Customer Success or Sales
  • 2+ years of experience managing people within a commercial team.  
  • Excellent leadership and interpersonal skill; you listen, you have empathy, you can communicate effectively and are able to take people on a journey
  • Adept at leveraging your business acumen to challenge and coach your team to further develop their commercial mindset
  • Strong negotiation skills, good judgment and consultative acumen
  • An ability to distill complex ideas and approaches into smaller simpler components
  • An approachable, warm and open leadership style, whilst being able to share direct and difficult messages
  • You enjoy working collaboratively, building strong working relationships with peers, colleagues and merchants 
  • Motivated by delivering success through your team
  • Experience of working with merchants within Platforms space preferred
  • Experience in leading a hiring processes and on-boarding new starters to Adyen
  • A genuine interest and technical aptitude / understanding of our products and industry
  • Full professional proficiency in English and German required

 

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 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.

 

This role is based out of our Berlin office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

 

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About The Company

Adyen is a technology company that provides a single platform to accept payments anywhere in the world through any sales channel. Driven by a vision to improve customer experience, streamline processes, and ultimately increase revenue, Adyen enables businesses to process payments across online, mobile, and Point-of-Sale (POS) with over 250 payment methods in 187 transaction currencies. Over 3,500 businesses use the Adyen payment platform, including Facebook, Airbnb, Spotify, Groupon, Evernote, Booking.com, Yelp, Vodafone, Mango, Abercrombie & Fitch, O’Neill, and KLM. Adyen is headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Madrid, and Boston.


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