Art Director - Internal Comms Branding

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&amp;M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p>Adyen is seeking an experienced, proactive, and collaborative Art Director/Senior Brand Designer with a specialized focus in Experiential Design. This role will be based in our Amsterdam office, working closely with cross-functional teams and reporting directly to our Global Design Team Lead.</p> <p><strong>Art Director - Internal Comms Branding</strong></p> <p>The Art Director role focuses on conceptualizing, designing, and executing visuals that not only align with Adyen’s brand guidelines, value proposition, and internal communications strategy but also elevate and enhance the overall internal brand experience. You’ll take complex ideas and product features and simplify them into beautiful, understandable visuals. You’ll respond to diverse briefs, translating project requirements into intuitive, impactful designs that achieve measurable outcomes.</p> <p>The ideal candidate is experienced in responding to briefs, creating compelling designs across various objectives, and collaborating effectively with stakeholders. You are highly specialized in creating engaging touchpoints to activate an internal audience. Bonus if you have experience in other forms of design. <strong>This role requires strong project management skills and stakeholder management.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>[Creative Direction &amp; Strategy]</strong> Act as the internal creative lead for large-scale campaigns (e.g., Investor Day, Connect), providing <strong>overall creative direction, conceptual routing, and visual identity stewardship</strong> to ensure all assets are cohesive and aligned with strategic goals.</li> <li><strong>[Agency Management &amp; QA]</strong> Take ownership of <strong>managing external agency and vendor relationships</strong> (e.g., Kinsmen, LiveLegends), including detailed briefing, creative steering, quality assurance (QA) on deliverables, and managing project timelines to ensure