Product Manager

Summary

Join Kraken's Equities Team and help build the future of equity trading, where traditional stocks and tokenized equities coexist seamlessly within crypto-native platforms. As Group Product Manager, you will define and deliver the end-to-end equities experience across Kraken Pro and Consumer Trading, unifying on-chain and off-chain markets. You'll own the product experience, build a unified equities product, integrate crypto and equities trading, design crypto-style equity strategies, and unlock equities as spendable assets. This role requires collaboration with various teams to ensure product alignment with regulatory requirements while maintaining speed and creativity. You will serve both professional traders and casual investors, staying close to market trends and user feedback for continuous product improvement.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset - willing to explore new ideas, learn and execute in a fast paced environment
• Deep interest in both traditional equities markets and crypto ecosystems
• Exceptional collaborator and communicator
• 5+ years of product management experience
• Strong understanding of the retail trading landscape and user behavior
• Experience building retail products in at least one of the following domains: stocks, cryptocurrencies, or derivatives
• Prior equites experience is required
• Solution oriented, highly-motivated and proactive self-starter
• Experience working with front end mobile and web apps and back end systems. Effective in navigating technical conversations with engineers
• Macro-to-micro versatility: strategic mindset coupled with a keen attention to detail
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities

Responsibilities

• Own the End-to-End Equities Product Experience: Define and deliver the equities and tokenized equities product across Kraken Pro and Consumer Trading - spanning frontend UX and backend product logic
• Build the One Equities Product: Create a seamless, unified experience for users to access both off-chain and on-chain equities through a single product architecture and interface
• Integrate Crypto & Equities Trading: Develop intuitive cross-asset trading flows - enabling users to move between crypto and equities in a way that feels fast, fluid, and native to both ecosystems
• Design Crypto-Style Equity Strategies: Craft products that allow users to engage in high-conviction, high-risk strategies - think leverage, synthetic exposure, and new forms of yield - all within a compliant and user-centric product framework
• Unlock Equities as Spendable Money: Partner with internal teams to enable functionality for holding, sending, and potentially spending equities, treating them as liquid assets in users’ portfolios
• Drive Product Execution Across Frontend & Backend: Translate strategic vision into scoped product work; write clear specs, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship iteratively with engineering and design partners
• Act as the Cross-Functional Glue: Work closely with Development, Legal, Compliance, and Operations (without owning them directly) to ensure product requirements and flows account for platform constraints and opportunities. Balance innovation and user experience with adherence to compliance redlines, proactively identifying risk/reward trade-offs and ensuring product decisions align with regulatory requirements without sacrificing speed or creativity
• Serve Both Kraken Pro and Consumer Use Cases: Balance the needs of professional traders and casual investors - delivering differentiated experiences where needed and shared infrastructure where possible
• Stay Close to the Market: Be obsessive about user feedback, market trends, and competitive intelligence - constantly iterating and evolving the product to stay ahead