Product Manager II - Custody & Funding

Kraken

Building the future of crypto!

The team

We are currently seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our growing Payments & Blockchain team, with a focus on analyzing and optimizing growth across Kraken s crypto systems. The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar (digital or fiat) that goes in or out of Kraken, as well as driving strategic decisions that improve asset listings and liquidity.

Within this group, the Custody team focuses on safeguarding client assets and building the infrastructure that enables secure, efficient, and scalable crypto custody operations. The team designs and manages custody frameworks that balance operational agility with institutional-grade security standards, ensuring that Kraken s clients (from individual traders to large institutions) can trust the protection and accessibility of their digital assets.The Custody team partners closely with Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Product teams to develop and maintain wallet infrastructure across hot, warm, and cold environments, oversee private key management, and continuously strengthen the systems that protect client funds. Their work is foundational to Kraken s reputation for reliability, resilience, and trust in the global crypto landscape.

The opportunity

Manage Product Initiatives from inception through completion while leveraging your excellent stakeholder management and program management skills, including crypto custody management and cross-chain liquidity management.

Collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team (Product, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, UX, UXR, Data and others) to deliver critical product development programs and projects

Establish roadmaps and milestones, anticipate and manage risks, resolve technical and operational challenges

Establish and manage product launches, communication forums, artefacts, reporting formats and tools to scale high quality product development operations

Skills You Should HODL

Must have a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies of crypto custody and wallet management, experience with cross-chain liquidity management.

Experience coordinating a full lifecycle of product development, incl. launching features to consumers, through frontend and backend platform development

Experience working with and coordinating operations of large cross-functional and interdisciplinary working groups (e.g. product management, engineering, data, design, etc.)

Tenacious, self starter who thrives in understanding the details of complex, cross-functional projects and can effectively distill into actionable project plans.

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal

Ability to exercise technical and product judgment in solving roadblocks

Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members

Nice to have's

Experience working with SQL and APIs