Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Kraken as a Lead Product Manager for Kraken Custody and drive the evolution and scaling of its institutional-grade custody platform. Lead the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap, ensuring secure, compliant, and highly available infrastructure. Integrate staking, prime execution, and structured yield solutions to create a unified institutional product suite. Design intuitive custody interfaces and workflows for complex organizational structures. Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements. Engage with institutional clients to identify pain points and shape product direction. This is a high-impact leadership role crucial to Kraken’s success in the institutional market. The position requires 5+ years of experience in product management with a focus on custody, institutional infrastructure, or B2B fintech.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management with a focus on custody, institutional infrastructure, or B2B fintech
• Experience delivering secure, high-availability platforms for mission-critical financial services
• Strong understanding of institutional client needs - governance, compliance, and operational complexity
• Ability to design products that support multi-user structures, granular permissions, and real-time controls
• Deep understanding of digital asset security, private key management, and operational risk
• Understanding of MPC, HSMs, and cold/hot wallet security models
• Experience building integrated product ecosystems
• Ability to align custody capabilities with adjacent services like staking, trading, and lending to create a cohesive client journey
• Experience building products that balance UX with rigorous control frameworks
• Proven success working across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to deliver complex products
• Effective at building consensus and driving execution at scale
• A passion for the crypto ecosystem and its unique challenges
• Familiarity with on-chain asset management, smart contract staking, yield protocols, and the evolving regulatory environment

Responsibilities

• Own and Scale Kraken Custody
• Lead end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Kraken Custody
• Scale secure, compliant, and highly available custody infrastructure that meets the needs of top-tier institutional clients, including asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, and crypto-native firms
• Integrate Staking, Yield & Prime Services
• Deliver seamless integrations with staking, prime execution, and structured yield solutions to create a unified institutional product suite
• Collaborate across business lines to ensure custody is the foundation for client access to execution, derivatives, and financing products
• Deliver Institutional-Grade Experience
• Design intuitive, enterprise-ready custody interfaces and workflows, supporting complex organizational structures, role-based access control, real-time balance insights, and operational controls
• Champion reliability, security, and auditability in all product features
• Regulatory-First Product Thinking
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure all product initiatives align with regulatory requirements across key jurisdictions
• Future-proof custody features to support regulatory readiness, segregation of assets, and reporting frameworks
• Client-Centric Innovation
• Engage deeply with institutional clients and prospects to identify pain points, develop solutions, and shape product direction
• Drive adoption through tight feedback loops, robust client onboarding, and ongoing product iteration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with staking architecture or validator operations
• Familiarity with Prime Brokerage or structured yield products
• Background in securities custody, fund administration, or digital asset infrastructure