Senior Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You coordinate the Data team’s audit activities with internal Audit, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors. You maintain audit inventories, playbooks, catalogs, testing processes, governance procedures, and auditor access while keeping systems and datasets continuously audit ready.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in program management, project management, audit coordination, or data governance
- Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks
- Experience coordinating audit engagements or liaising between technical teams and auditors
- Strong organizational skills
- Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, and governance practices
- Understanding of data access management principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Coordinate Data team activities during audits
- Maintain audit inventories, playbooks, and catalogs
- Create inventories of audit tests and expected requests
- Maintain catalogs of audit data sources and readiness status
- Coordinate with Finance, Security, and Compliance stakeholders
- Implement data tagging and governance processes
- Manage auditor data access roles
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)