Product Manager II - Financial Systems

Responsibilities

• Be the product manager for Kraken’s Financial Systems, covering accounting, treasury, and related financial platforms.
• Work closely with your engineering squads to establish a strong product culture and clear ownership within a historically project-driven domain.
• Partner deeply with Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into scalable, reliable system capabilities.
• Collaborate with product owners across the organisation whose teams integrate with or depend on financial and treasury systems, ensuring alignment, clear interfaces, and shared priorities.
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure complex financial and technical challenges are solved in ways that ensure accuracy, auditability, scalability, and resilience.
• Drive the development process end-to-end, ensuring products are delivered on time and meet Kraken’s quality, reliability, and control standards.
• Participate in strengthening the overall product group through close collaboration with your globally distributed team of fellow product managers.

Requirements

• Prior experience in product management or technical product management.
• Experience working on complex internal systems, platforms, or enterprise software, ideally within financial services or trading environments.
• Deep understanding of financial instruments and markets, including crypto assets, tokenized equities, derivatives, securities, and their associated lifecycle events.
• Strong knowledge of payment processes and methods, including fiat and crypto rails, settlement, clearing, and reconciliation concepts.
• A background that enables you to engage confidently in discussions around system design, integrations, data models, and trade-offs impacting reliability and performance.
• Ability to bridge highly technical system design with financial, accounting, and treasury requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with accounting systems, treasury management systems, or financial data platforms.
• Familiarity with financial controls, audits, or regulatory reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience coordinating across multiple product teams with shared platform dependencies.
• Experience integrating systems across trading, payments, custody, or securities platforms.
• Experience working in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up environment.

Benefits

About the Company

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.