Principal Program Manager (f/m/x)

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Germany
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Lead and coordinate a high-priority cross-company strategic program between lemon.markets and dwpbank. Align stakeholders across product, engineering, legal, operations, and commercial teams; manage risks, dependencies, and governance; translate complex discussions into clear recommendations and actions; support business development and keep senior leadership informed to ensure timely execution and a compelling joint offering.
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About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.

As part of the dwpbank Group, we share a clear goal: making investing in capital markets more accessible. By combining dwpbank’s long-standing expertise and stability with lemon.markets’ technology-first mindset and speed, we are building a modern, modular securities services ecosystem. Together, we offer faster time-to-market, modular services, and a modern customer experience that helps financial service providers stay competitive and respond more flexibly in a changing market.

Your Mission
As we deepen our collaboration with our parent company, dwpbank, we are looking for a highly strategic and execution-focused person to lead one of our most important cross-company initiatives.

In this role, you will act as the central coordination point for a joint offering with dwpbank. You will bring clarity to complexity, align stakeholders across both organizations, and drive the overall program across commercial, product, and governance workstreams. Your job is to ensure that the right topics move forward, dependencies are surfaced early, and teams stay focused on what matters most.

In this role you will:

  • Own the overall coordination of a critical cross-company strategic program between lemon.markets and dwpbank.

  • Help shape how lemon.markets’ and dwpbank’s offerings come together into a compelling joint proposition for shared customers.

  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, operations, legal, and commercial stakeholders to ensure seamless execution across the full value chain.

  • Act as the connective layer across teams and senior stakeholders, ensuring that priorities, decisions, risks, and dependencies are transparent and actively managed.

  • Work closely with senior leaders at lemon.markets and dwpbank to keep the program on track and escalate where needed.

  • Identify strategic risks and opportunities early, connect the dots across domains, and proactively steer the program accordingly.

  • Translate complex discussions and developments into clear recommendations, concrete next steps, and actionable decisions.

  • Keep momentum high across all involved stakeholders by driving follow-through, enabling effective communication across teams, building bridges between organizations and functions, and ensuring lemoneers and leadership have the right information and context at the right time.

  • Partner with internal commercial teams and dwpbank counterparts to support business development efforts for the joint offering.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:

  • Bring strong experience in program management, strategic project leadership, or change delivery in a complex financial-services environment.

  • Have experience in securities services, custody, brokerage, wealth management, asset management, or adjacent financial infrastructure environments.

  • Understand how to navigate regulated environments and cross-functional dependencies across multiple senior stakeholders.

  • Are able to absorb complex context quickly, structure ambiguity, and turn it into practical action.

  • Are not just a status-tracker: you bring judgment, anticipate what matters, and actively steer topics before they become problems.

  • Combine strategic thinking with a hands-on mindset, strong execution discipline, and a clear drive to make progress.

  • Are a patient, thoughtful communicator who can build trust, create alignment, and move topics forward across organizational boundaries and seniority levels.

  • Know how to facilitate communication across diverse stakeholder groups, ensure the right context is shared with the right people, and help teams stay aligned even in complex or sensitive situations.

  • Have strong commercial instincts and understand how product, execution, and business development interact in strategic initiatives.

  • Are fluent in German and English.

How we take care of you:

  • 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.

  • 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.

  • 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.

  • 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations as well as an annual learning budget.

  • 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture.

  • 💛 Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.

  • 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.

 

As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.

If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply.

You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via [email protected]

Skills Required

  • Experience in program management, strategic project leadership, or change delivery in complex financial-services environments.
  • Domain experience in securities services, custody, brokerage, wealth management, asset management, or adjacent financial infrastructure.
  • Experience navigating regulated environments and managing cross-functional dependencies with senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to absorb complex context quickly, structure ambiguity, and translate into pragmatic action.
  • Proven judgment and ability to proactively steer topics and mitigate risks before they become problems.
  • Combines strategic thinking with a hands-on execution mindset and strong follow-through.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to build trust and alignment across organizations and seniority levels.
  • Strong commercial instincts; understands intersection of product, execution, and business development.
  • Fluency in German and English.
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The Company
HQ: Münster
79 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

lemon.markets is on a mission to open 100 million brokerage accounts within the next ten years. Providing the infrastructure for FinTechs and Banks powering the next generation of investment products. Use the lemon.markets API to launch a customer-centric and compliant investment product on your terms. We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. It’s a messy and complex problem that will take time to solve. But that’s exactly what we enjoy. Going to places nobody else dares and shielding our customers from the biggest pain. By enabling companies to build investment products, embed investing as a feature or bring investing into a new context - Our mission is to grow investing opportunities!

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