About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager - Simple Trading based in Germany.
This is a senior product leadership role focused on optimizing and growing simple, accessible trading experiences for retail customers across Europe. The role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to influence product direction across multiple European markets without direct people-management responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Own the optimization and evolution of simple trading products across key European markets, identifying customer needs, product gaps, and opportunities across onboarding, fiat funding, buying, selling, swapping, portfolio management, savings, investments, spending, and withdrawals.
- Adapt product journeys to local payment methods, customer behaviors, investment habits, market practices, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Simplify complex crypto and financial concepts for first-time and low-frequency retail customers.
- Ensure consistent and intuitive experiences across web and mobile.
- Own the local product funnel across onboarding, funding, activation, first purchase, repeat purchase, retention, and reactivation.
- Develop engagement and investment features such as recurring purchases, auto-invest, savings plans, price alerts, asset collections.
- Partner with growth and marketing teams on market-specific acquisition, activation, engagement, and lifecycle initiatives.
- Monitor product performance and use customer feedback, funnel analysis, experimentation, competitive research, and market-level data to guide priorities.
- Collaborate with design, engineering, data, compliance, operations, marketing, and local market teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience in consumer fintech, crypto, digital banking, brokerage, payments, savings, investment, or closely related consumer financial products.
- Hands-on experience building, launching, or optimizing consumer products for European markets.
- Deep knowledge of European retail customers, payment behaviors, investment habits, and the factors influencing adoption, conversion, repeat usage, retention, or assets under management.
- Strong understanding of consumer product design, growth, experimentation, lifecycle engagement, and data-informed product development.
- Ability to translate complex financial or technical concepts into simple, intuitive customer journeys.
- Working knowledge of retail crypto and digital banking concepts, including fiat on/off-ramps, spot trading, custody, wallets, transfers, pricing, and spreads.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as a senior individual contributor.
- Strong product judgment, structured thinking, analytical ability, written communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent English and comfortable collaborating remotely across European time zones.
- Experience with European payment methods such as SEPA, Instant SEPA, cards, and major local payment solutions is an advantage.
- Experience launching or localizing products across multiple European countries is a plus.
- Exposure to recurring investment, auto-invest, crypto bundles, portfolio analytics, round-ups, savings, or similar engagement mechanisms is beneficial.
- Additional European language skills are advantageous.
Conditions
- Competitive total compensation package.
- Learning and development programs.
- Education subsidy.
- Team-building programs and company events.
- Wellness and meal allowances.
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage for employees and dependants.
- Remote working environment with collaboration across European time zones.