Kraken is looking for a Technical Project Manager to support cross-functional engineering teams in planning, executing, and delivering mission-critical projects for a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. This role demands strategic systems thinking and meticulous attention to detail on initiatives spanning internal tooling, client experience systems, and compliance operations.
What You'll Do
- Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional technical projects within financial systems domains.
- Build and manage project plans, roadmaps, dashboards, and release timelines.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams around strategic priorities and outcomes.
- Identify dependencies, manage risks, and unblock teams through creative problem-solving.
- Facilitate standups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and stakeholder reviews.
- Track KPIs and project health via metrics and dashboards, iterating on reporting for clarity and impact.
- Manage intake workflows across multiple channels and business units.
- Work closely with external vendors when required, ensuring compliance and technical standards.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Project Management within fast-paced, cross-functional software development environments.
- Strong technical acumen.
- Experienced with the Atlassian Suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery) and other PM tools.
- Proficient in Agile and waterfall methodologies with the judgment to apply context-dependent approaches.
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear project plans and status updates.
- Self-starter with a track record of independently driving initiatives to completion.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment and iterate.
- Strong sense of discretion and data sensitivity, particularly within security and compliance domains.
Nice to Have
- FinTech experience.
- Experience in engineering, compliance, or fintech environments.
- Working knowledge of scripting.
Technical Stack
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery)
Team & Environment
You will work with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product, IT, Client Experience, Compliance and Security.
Work Mode
This is a remote-first, global position open to candidates in the US, EU, and CAN. We celebrate diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
