Associate II, Product Operations

Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work. The team Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. Krak is Kraken's consumer banking and payments product — a fast-moving team building the card, payments, and financial features that bring crypto to everyday life. The Krak Product Operations team sits at the heart of this, making sure the business can move quickly without getting blindsided by compliance, risk, vendor, or operational dependencies. This is one of two roles in Krak’s Product Ops function, reporting to the Manager, Product Ops - Krak. You'll bring leadership to the day-to-day, working directly with compliance, legal, fraud, client engagement (CE), and external vendors to make sure new features land safely and successfully.   The opportunity Product Ops at Krak is a co-ordination and intelligence function. Your job is to make sure that the cross-functional dependencies that could slow or derail delivery are surfaced early, actively managed, and resolved. You'll also help the team make better product decisions by curating the right operational data and bringing market and vendor intelligence into the room. You'll work across four areas: compliance and risk co-ordination, third party vendor management, responding to management information (MI) and feature performance, and strategic market intelligence. Your job is to make sure the right conversations happen at the right time, and that nothing falls through the cracks on the way to launch.   Compliance & risk co-ordination • Maintain live, product-specific trackers of open compliance and legal items, including DRIs, status, and upcoming milestones • Triage new features against regulatory requirements ahead of development; ensure sign-off is built into delivery milestones • Work closely with fraud leads to ensure fraud controls and risk/velocity rules are factored into feature design (card, third party payments, and others) • Ensure fraud and CE teams are operationally positioned - with the right tooling, admin access, battlecards, and support articles - ahead of new product and feature launches • Support incident response for product-related issues and ensure post-incident reviews feed into product changes   Third party vendor management • Maintain product-specific vendor trackers covering status, open actions, key contacts, and upcoming milestones • Own the cadence for performance reviews with key vendors and track actions to closure • Maintain a working view of vendor roadmaps and capabilities; produce periodic briefings on where vendor developments create product opportunities or constraints   Responding to MI & feature performance • Ensure experiments and feature launches are supported by readily available fraud, dispute, and CE metrics alongside commercial KPIs • Interpret fraud, dispute, CE, and auth/decline data to identify emerging issues and surface them to the right teams • Drive follow-through on cross-functional findings - whether that's a compliance flag or a vendor issue   Strategic market intelligence • Scan the market for competitors' changes to features, pricing, and risk positioning • Monitor r