Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kraken is a leading company in the open finance sector, focused on building a robust financial infrastructure. The Technical Project Manager will support cross-functional engineering teams in planning, executing, and delivering critical projects while ensuring alignment and visibility across stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional technical projects within the engineering, security, compliance, facility and datacenters operations
- 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 meetings, retrospectives, planning sessions and lead planning for big initiatives, coordination with stakeholders
- Track KPIs and project health via metrics and dashboards, iterating on reporting for clarity and impact
- Manage intake workflows (feature requests, support channels, KTLO) and ensure requests are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads, and Product Managers to align on requirements, timelines, and project planning
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences—including executives—with clear summaries and actionable insights
- Work closely with external vendors when required, ensuring compliance and technical standards
- Improve internal workflows through enhanced Atlassian workflows, AI, automation, self-service and consistent reporting mechanisms
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and recommending scalable process changes
- Cultivate a high-performing team environment by sharing project management best practices across teams
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar
- 1+ year experience working as an Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, or similar Software Engineer role
- Strong technical acumen, ideally with experience in engineering, infrastructure, security, developer experience, networking in fintech environments
- A data-driven mindset, measuring the effectiveness of our processes and systems to make informed decisions
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to rapidly generate scripts and automate workflows, enabling the efficient development and scaling of internal tools
- Experienced with Atlassian Suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery), Slack workflows, 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
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities in a dynamic industry
- Strong sense of discretion and data sensitivity, particularly within security and compliance domains
- Prior experience in cryptocurrency or fintech
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- This role is fully remote. We consider candidates in EU and EST US/LATAM timezones.
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