Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Kraken's Pro business unit as a Principal Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of its web and mobile trading platforms. You will shape product vision, build and scale profitable operations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role requires a strategic, entrepreneurial approach with deep trading and product management expertise. You'll be responsible for delivering intuitive UX, establishing product requirements, using data-driven development, and staying abreast of industry trends. Success demands collaboration and a passion for creating a world-class trading experience. Kraken is a fully remote company with a global team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience
• Understanding of trading, margin, futures, FX, options, backend systems and flow-of-funds
• First hand experience in trading on both cryptocurrency and traditional exchanges
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex, high-impact products
• Strong quantitative and analysis skills, including SQL and a language like Python
• Strong knowledge of trading market participants, their different incentives and constraints
• Macro-to-micro versatility: obsessive attention to detail and first principles thinking
• Passion, self-drive and Intellectual honestly
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to distill complex ideas

Responsibilities

• Ship intuitive, powerful UX tailored to the professional trader, incorporating the best principles from both traditional and crypto-native platforms
• Eliminate pain points and friction
• Establish detailed product requirements and documentation including designs and diagrams, calculations, API specifications, policies and processes, and take ownership of their successful build and end-to-end delivery
• Use an efficient combination of experience, competitive intelligence, research, experimentation, client feedback, analytics and gut instinct to develop clear, detailed plans and ruthlessly prioritised roadmaps and backlogs
• Partner with Pro BU and cross-functional leaders to accelerate product adoption and growth, improving across every geo and stage of the client lifecycle, from marketing to activation to retention
• Take ownership over specific metrics and business outcomes
• Define, track and analyze KPIs to understand product performance, client behaviour and to guide data-driven product development
• Keep track of industry trends, regulatory developments, and competition across CeFi, DeFi and TradFi to ensure Kraken is positioned for long-term success in a highly dynamic market
• Align colleagues on our shared goals, and the plan to reach those goals
• Reinforce a passionate, high-performance and high-velocity, outcome-focused and low-ego culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in both traditional finance and the digital asset space
• Experience working in a regulated environment and collaborating with legal and compliance
• Familiarity with the most relevant rules and regulations (MiCA, MiFID, MTL, etc)
• Background in computer science, software engineering or applied mathematics
• Understanding of margin trading, futures, FX, options, backend systems and flow-of-funds
• Familiarity with REST and Websockets APIs