Product Manager - Prop Trading
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KrakenCrypto Trading
United KingdomFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3-6+ years
- Required Skills
- RESTful APIs
Requirements
- 3-6+ years in senior product management
- Significant time owning a trading or execution product
- Deep understanding of derivatives trading (perps, futures, margin, leverage, order types, risk parameters)
- Experience building for professional or semi-professional traders
- Track record of shipping complex, technically demanding features end-to-end with high quality
- Ability to write detailed, unambiguous product requirements
- Strong opinions on trading UX
- Comfortable in the technical weeds (reading API docs, understanding data contracts, informed opinion on architectural tradeoffs)
- Experience working on products with real-time data requirements (streaming prices, live P&L, order state)
- Familiarity with trading infrastructure concepts (order routing, execution layers, risk engines, position monitoring)
- Senior enough to own a domain with minimal direction
- Strong written communicator
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams and navigating cross-functional dependencies
- Trader empathy
- Crypto-native or deeply curious
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end trading experience across Breakout Prop and Kraken Prop (web and mobile)
- Drive the trading experience roadmap within your domain (sequencing, requirements, and delivery) in close partnership with the Head of Product
- Define what best-in-class prop trading UX looks like: fast, intuitive, and built for serious derivatives traders
- Drive execution on near-term priorities and terminal parity with the best in market (Hyperliquid and beyond)
- Lead the product strategy for agentic and API trading, giving power users programmatic access to prop capital
- Partner with Kraken Pro engineering to build a trading experience native to the crypto ecosystem while serving prop traders' specific needs
- Work closely with the risk team to translate execution nuance into product requirements, understanding A-book vs B-book mechanics, drawdown rules, and how they shape UX
- Set the bar for what "done" means on trading features (requirements, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and post-ship iteration)
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