Product Operations Associate II — Fintech & Compliance

Kraken International; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, is seeking a Product Operations professional for Krak. This role leads day-to-day coordination with compliance, legal, fraud, client engagement, and external vendors to ensure new features land safely and successfully.

You will surface cross-functional risks, curate operational MI, and bring market intelligence to the Krak roadmap. 3–5 years in fintech product ops or programme management with regulatory knowledge is ideal.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in a product operations, strategy, or programme management role in a consumer fintech, payments, or banking business – ideally at a company with a card or payments product.
• Strong working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance landscape for consumer financial products in one or more regions.
• Experience working alongside or within fraud and risk functions; understanding of how fraud controls interact with product design.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with different stakeholders and different cadences, without dropping the ball.
• Track record of turning complex operational data into clear, actionable MI for product and leadership teams.
• Structured thinker who's comfortable in the detail but can step back and see the bigger picture.
• Strong communicator - able to translate between the worlds of compliance, risk, engineering, and product.

Responsibilities

• Maintain live 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Scan the market for competitors' changes to features, pricing, and risk positioning
• Monitor regulatory and market developments that could affect the Krak roadmap
• Identify third party vendor capabilities that could enable features not yet on the roadmap; flag where the current stack may be a constraint

Skills

Product operations

Strategy

Programme management

Regulatory knowledge

Fraud & risk collaboration

Communication

Job description

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, is seeking a Product Operations professional for Krak. This role leads day-to-day coordination with compliance, legal, fraud, client engagement, and external vendors to ensure new features land safely and successfully.

You will surface cross-functional risks, curate operational MI, and bring market intelligence to the Krak roadmap. 3–5 years in fintech product ops or programme management with regulatory knowledge is ideal.