AI Tech Risk Officer

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.

AI Tech Risk Officer 

Adyen combines the agility of a global tech company with the stability of a licensed financial institution. As a Tech Risk Officer focused on AI technology, you will partner with cross-functional teams and regional second-line functions (such as Model risk, Compliance and the DPO office) to ensure safe, secure, and resilient implementation of autonomous AI architectures and regulatory requirements. The Tech Risk team, part of the second line risk function ensures that risk management practices are applied across Adyen’s technological environments, teams and initiatives. This continuous task requires a close and supporting relationship with tech teams in the first line, in order to understand changes in the tech landscape but also to guide them in relation to risk mitigations.  In this role, you will focus on the unique security and architectural risks associated with building, deploying, and monitoring autonomous AI agents, working closely with first-line engineering teams to embed risk mitigation into technical design. You will be part of building technology, challenging design and execution through constructive and positive conversations. Realize better outcomes together.  The ideal candidate is a risk or tech professional with hands-on experience evaluating and managing risks arising from the implementation of AI solutions, software architecture for agentic systems and the underlying tech stack. You have a technical background that enables you to evaluate agentic workflows, models safety, and integration points, advancing our second-line risk framework to support safe AI innovation at scale. Both security as well as IT-resilience experience is welcome. 

What you will do 

• Evaluate technology threats and risks  across diverse AI developments in the industry, internal projects and assets, advising stakeholders and ensuring risk mitigation actions are implemented. 

• Collaborate closely with leadership and build an internal network to ensure the domain remains represented in business activities, contributing to decision making. 

• Drive the second line risk oversight for AI and general Technology risks, including KRI design, risk monitoring and reporting. 

• Collaborate with other Risk domains, in order to incorporate AI Tech risks into Adyen’s risk profile, ensuring those are considered when evaluating company objectives. 

• Collaborate with or advise other second-line teams (typically Regulatory, Compliance and Privacy) in the implementation of AI Governance requirements in Adyen’s tech environments, as well as engage with local auditors or external partners (externally) as a trusted point of contact for the specific risk domain, globally. 

• Engage with various regulators to provide clarity on Adyen’s IT Resilience and excellence landscape.

Who you are

• You have at least 5+ years experience within a risk management function, with 2 years of demonstrated experience guiding AI risk mitigations, AI Governance or AI Cyber Security.  

• Demonstrated experience evaluating technology risks, Security best practices and associated industry and regulatory frameworks. 

• You feel comfortable explaining risks associated with IT environments to engineers but also to business stakeholders. 

• You have a solid understanding of commonly used AI technology stack (hardware, software, network and systems, on-prem or cloud solutions), at the level required to identify risks or weaknesses