Sr. Staff Product Manager - Trade, Payward Services

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Payward Services is Kraken’s B2B infrastructure platform - built on 15 years of operating history - that enables companies to add digital asset trading, stablecoin payments, custody, staking, lending, and funding rails to their own products through a single integration. Rather than stitching together multiple vendors, partners build on unified infrastructure where execution, custody, compliance, risk, and settlement work in concert.

Within Payward Services, Trade is the product line that powers trading experiences inside partner apps and Kraken 1P interfaces. We help fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms offer their customers digital asset trading - spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders - without building exchange infrastructure from scratch. Our partners’ end users trade inside the partner’s app; we provide everything underneath.

We’re hiring a Sr. Staff Product Manager to drive the Trade product line strategy and execution. Reporting to the Global Head of Payward Services, this is a product-first leadership role. You’ll define what we build, shape how partners integrate it, and work directly with clients to ensure the product succeeds in real-world deployments.

• Drive the Trade product strategy, roadmap, and execution — spanning Convert & Trade, PTL as a Service (custodial and non-custodial), Recurring Buys, Limit Orders, PTL + xStocks, and crypto derivatives (jointly owned with the Derivatives team)

• Build and externalize our Crypto-as-a-Service API suite, enabling B2B2C trading infrastructure for fintechs, banks, and brokerages to embed institutional-grade trading into their products

• Extend the API suite to support more trade types and manage trading workflows for both institutional partners and individual end users

• Broaden access beyond B2B partners to every Kraken account holder, including emerging developers and AI-assisted developers interacting via coding agents and similar tools

• Design systems across order management, execution, custody integration, compliance workflows, and trading UX/API patterns

• Drive partner-led product development by working directly with clients to translate requirements into scalable product decisions and unblock integrations

• Treat the product as the GTM: Trade is adopted because it integrates cleanly and solves partner problems, not because it's sold

• Lead the full product lifecycle from discovery and scoping through build, launch, and iteration

• Influence cross-functional teams across Engineering, Design, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Payments, and Custody to deliver globally scalable platform capabilities

• Drive key metrics including partner adoption, integration velocity, trading volume, end-user activation, and revenue impact

• Partner with Sales and BD to support strategic deals through product expertise, demos, and integration planning

• 10+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent building B2B2C infrastructure - ideally platforms that help companies add trading, brokerage, or financial services to their own apps

• Deep experience with trading platforms or exchange infrastructure, especially at the service layer. You understand order types, execution models, custody, settlement, and what it takes to build trading products that work at scale. Prior experience at an exchange, brokerage platform, or trading infrastructure provider is strongly preferred

• Track record of shipping B2B products that partners actually integrate. You’ve dealt with the realities of enterprise integration - API design, onboarding friction, compliance requirements, and multi-tenant architecture

• Technical fluency. You don’t need to write code, but you need to hold your own in architecture discussions, make informed build/buy tradeoffs, and challenge engineering when needed

• Experience operating in regulated financial services. You’ve worked within compliance and licensing constraints and understand how they shape product decisions - especially across multiple jurisdictions

• Strong product sense with commercial awareness. You lead with product, but understand how product decisions drive revenue and platform adoption

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams and drive alignment without direct authority

• Comfort operating in ambiguity. Payward Services is scaling rapidly. You’ll need to move fast, make decisions with imperfect information, and adapt as the business evolves

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