Product Manager II Financial Crime Operations
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the investigation-platform roadmap, define deliverables and acceptance criteria, and manage requirements between Compliance and Engineering. You will improve alert ingestion, case management, auditability, data controls, and regulated automation while coordinating delivery updates with stakeholders.
Requirements
- 4+ years of product management experience
- 2+ years of experience with financial-crime systems such as transaction monitoring, investigations, case management, KYC/EDD, or sanctions screening
- Working knowledge of AML programme examination and monitoring, filing, and control systems
- Technical fluency in data flows and system design
- Experience delivering internal tools or operational platforms
- Clear writing for PRDs, phase plans, audit walkthroughs, and executive updates
- Stakeholder management and delivery judgment
Responsibilities
- Own and prioritize the investigation-platform roadmap
- Define phased deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Build requirements intake between Compliance policy, monitoring rules, and case management
- Reconcile policies and SOPs with investigator workflows and system behavior
- Evaluate alert ingestion, resolution, suppression, grouping, and reconciliation logic
- Make audit trails, data lineage, evidence retention, reviewer attribution, and change controls core requirements
- Deliver controlled automation and AI for regulated workflows
- Run stakeholder forums, updates, and delivery-status reporting
Hiring Process
May include a job-related skills or work-style assessment.
