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Technical Project Manager - Core Infrastructure
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Technical Project Manager - Core Infrastructure
Technical Project Manager - Core Infrastructure Team
Building the Future of Open Finance
Payward—parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks—has built one of the world’s most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms. For 15 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to fostering an open, scalable, and secure financial system.
Explore [our culture page](link omitted) before applying to understand what drives us.
The Team
The Core Infrastructure Team at Kraken designs and maintains a robust, secure, and automated infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput, and resilience. This allows Kraken to deliver critical software and platform solutions efficiently to stakeholders and clients.
As a Technical Project Manager, you’ll:
- Lead cross-functional teams through planning, execution, and delivery of mission-critical projects.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, IT, Compliance, and Security teams to ensure alignment, visibility, and scalability of key initiatives.
- Work with infrastructure, orchestration, compliance, security, databases, and internal tooling—balancing Agile and waterfall methodologies as needed.
- Operate in an environment of hyper-transparency, encouraging open dialogue, candid feedback, and adaptability in the fast-paced crypto industry.
- Remote, considering candidates in EU, EST US, or LATAM timezones.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management & Execution
✔ Drive end-to-end execution of high-complexity projects across engineering, security, compliance, facility, and datacenter operations. ✔ Design and manage project plans, roadmaps, dashboards, and release timelines. ✔ Identify project dependencies, risks, and blockers, solving problems creatively. ✔ Coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring strategic focus on outcomes. ✔ Facilitate meetings, retrospectives, and multi-year project planning. ✔ Track performance via KPIs and dashboards, refining reporting for clarity and impact. ✔ Manage intake workflows (feature requests, support, ticketing), ensuring efficiency and timely resolution.
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Cross-Team Collaboration & Communication
🔹 Partner with Engineering, Product, and Compliance teams to clarify requirements, timelines, and project alignment. 🔹 Communicate technical and non-technical stakeholders (including executives) with actionable, clear updates. 🔹 Work with external vendors, ensuring compliance and high standards. 🔹 Build strong stakeholder engagement across juxtaposed methodological approaches.
Process Improvement & Tooling
🔧 Continuously enhance workflows through:
- Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery)
- AI automation, scripts, and self-service mechanisms
- Improved reporting and internal tooling efficiency
- Implementation of scalable process changes. 🌟 Lead a high-performing team culture by sharing best practices.
Requirements
Essential
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 1+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, or senior software engineer.
- Strong technical grounding in:
- Cybersecurity / compliance
- Developer experience & networking (preferably in fintech).
- AI scripting for automation & internal tooling.
- Experience with: Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Slack automation, Agile, and proactive problem-solving.
- Data-driven mindset with a focus on process optimization.
- Exceptional written communication—summarizing complex topics for diverse audiences (executives, engineers, allies).
- Self-starters who thrive in dynamic environments and unpack ambiguity.
- Discretion and data sensitivity—critical for security/compliance-sensitive roles.
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Nice to Have
- Experience in cryptocurrency or fintech.
- Understanding of modern financial market infrastructure (settlement, trading, risk architecture).
Note: Applications accepted continuously unless a deadline is specified.
Key Principles
- Diversity & Inclusion: Payward celebrates diverse backgrounds and skills. We consider merit over credentials—apply even if requirements aren’t fully met!
- Fair Hiring Process: Aligns with San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for criminal history evaluations.
- Assessments: May include non-discriminatory skills assessments; results are part of a holistic evaluation.
Behind every employee is an individual. Your unique perspective and passion for crypto matter.
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