Team Lead Account Management
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Feb 2026 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong role with leadership responsibilities, significant commercial impact, and career development opportunities.
- Leadership role with team management responsibilities
- Opportunity to drive commercial targets and growth
- Experience in customer-facing roles required
Pros
- Opportunity to lead and develop a team in a growing company
- Focus on building key merchant relationships
- Dynamic environment with diverse responsibilities
Cons
- Vague salary details, which may impact candidate interest
- High pressure to meet commercial targets
- Demands strong leadership and negotiation skills
Who it's for
Mid-level / Senior • Hybrid / in-office
Good fit
- Experienced account managers and sales leaders
- Individuals passionate about customer success
- Professionals interested in team development
Not recommended for
- Candidates without B2B experience
- Recent graduates seeking entry-level positions
- Individuals preferring less client interaction
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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 London
Our AM team in London provides the best experience to our portfolio of mid-sized, fast-growth merchants. We achieve this using a Pooled 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 UK portfolio as we scale.
Here are some examples of the team's responsibilities:
- Build strong relationships with your merchants
- Drive commercial growth
- Accelerate product adoption
- Consult and train key stakeholders
- Manage time-sensitive, cross-functional initiatives and projects in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial environment
In addition, you can find more details of the AM role from here.
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; Create and maintain an inspiring and collaborative team environment with an open communication/feedback culture;
- Commercial target ownership and delivery: targets are annual and are achieved at a team level. Ensuring every team member is contributing at an individual level.
- Drive scalability initiatives and projects: together with other global 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;
- Lead the day to day: when needed, get involved in operational tasks 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;
- Align and collaborate with internal teams: primarily Marketing, Sales, Partnership, Account Management and operations to provide outstanding Customer Experience to merchants;
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing B2B role, preferably Account Management/Customer Success/Sales;
- 3+ years of experience managing a team;
- You have owned commercial targets: you have a proven commercial edge and strong negotiation skills, good judgment and consultative acumen;
- You have good leadership and interpersonal skills: you listen, you have empathy, you can communicate effectively and convince when necessary;
- You like thinking big picture and scale and you want to be part of further shaping our AM Service level proposition;
- You have a genuine interest and technical aptitude / understanding of our products & industry;
- You know what DEI means and you have ideas on how to take it into account in your decision making process continuously;
- You have experience in leading hiring processes and can identify talents;
Please note that this role is a full-time position (hybrid way of working- 3 days a week in office) in Central London.
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.
