[Hiring] Senior Director, Product Management, Pro UI @Kraken

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Director, Product Management, Pro UI to lead the product vision, strategy, and execution for Kraken Pro's web and mobile trading experiences. This is a player-coach role - you will manage a team of product managers while also directly owning key product areas. You will partner closely with our VP of Engineering, Pro Trading, design leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver world-class trading interfaces for a wide spectrum of clients, from first-time traders to professional algorithmic trading firms.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Kraken Pro web and mobile UI, covering trading interfaces, order management, charting, portfolio, and platform-level experiences.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product managers embedded across the Pro UI team - setting direction, raising the bar, and building PM craft across the team.
• Partner directly with the VP of Engineering, Pro Trading, and design leadership as a core leadership trio driving the platform forward.
• Define and maintain a clear product vision that serves clients across the full spectrum - from newcomers needing simplicity to professional traders demanding performance, modularity, and customization.
• Establish and evangelize a data-driven product culture: define KPIs, instrument features, run experiments, and synthesize analytics into actionable product decisions.
• Drive prioritization across competing workstreams - trading features, platform reliability, UI performance, localization, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the relationship between Pro UI and cross-functional partners including backend engineering, compliance, legal, growth, and business development.
• Represent Pro UI product decisions to senior leadership and business stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
• Actively contribute to pre-planning, roadmap reviews, and sprint processes alongside engineering and design.
• Triage and synthesize bugs, user feedback, and internal feedback into prioritized, well-scoped work for engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years of managing and developing PM teams.
• Demonstrated experience owning UI/UX product strategy for consumer-facing platforms with high complexity and a demanding user base.
• First-hand experience working across both cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets.
• Strong background working closely with UX design and the ability to raise the quality bar on product experience.
• Proven ability to operate as a player-coach: driving team-level strategy while staying close to execution and delivery.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills - comfortable presenting to executives and aligning large cross-functional groups.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; experience defining and tracking KPIs, running A/B experiments, and making data-driven decisions.
• Ability to translate complex business and trading requirements to engineering and design teams, and vice versa.
• Passion, intellectual honesty, and strong self-drive - comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to haves

• Experience in both traditional finance and the digital asset space.
• Understanding of margin trading, futures, FX, options, and order management systems.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and collaborating with legal and compliance.
• Familiarity with exchange market structure, advanced order types, and professional trading workflows.
• Experience scaling trading platforms across geographies or regulatory environments.
• Background working with or evaluating AI-assisted product development and analytics tooling.

Company Description

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.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.