Senior Migration Project Manager (f/m/d)

At Upvest, we're on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. We are building the first European Investment API that empowers businesses to offer seamless investment experiences to their users.

Upvest is a well-funded, fast-growing FinTech with a diverse team of over 250 people from 70+ nationalities working across our hubs in Berlin, Tallinn, and London. Our latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 250+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK.

How we Upvest in you*

• Work with experts: Solving complex problems and fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest by using cutting-edge technologies.

• Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role.

• Professional development: Access an annual budget of €1,500 for personal and professional training to master your craft.

• Wellbeing: Recharge with 30 days of annual leave and maintain a healthy lifestyle with sports benefits. Access confidential professional coaching and enjoy the flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year.

• Compensation and equity: We believe that all Upvengers contribute to our success and deserve a competitive, above-market salary and a participation in our employee equity program.

• Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.

Your Impact:

As part of our Launch team, we are at the forefront of enabling seamless client onboarding and migration experiences, ensuring smooth, scalable integrations that set our clients up for success. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex challenges, and want to shape the future of investment infrastructure, this role is for you.

What you’ll do:

• Own end-to-end delivery of large client and asset migrations, ensuring projects are meticulously planned, executed, and tested.

• Create first-class, repeatable client migration experiences: Lead and standardize securities migration projects, enabling clients to build investment products on our API. You streamline processes, create reusable documentation, and apply best practices to deliver smooth, scalable client experiences

• Set new standards in client collaboration and communication.

• Build trusted client relationships and foster cross-functional collaboration with a partnership mindset. Your pragmatic leadership style ensures successful integrations, motivates teams, and aligns client needs with our business goals.

What you bring:

• You have several years of experience in client-facing migrations and integration project roles within the German and/or European financial market

• Experience in managing the custody transfer of financial instruments, like equities, ETFs and mutual funds.

• Skilled in handling migrations across a range of system architectures, from legacy platforms to modern APIs, ensuring a flexible and efficient approach to integration.

• Oversight in managing post-migration reconciliation to guarantee consistency across systems.

• Expert in end-to-end project management: Proven ability to design, plan, and execute large-scale migrations

• Track record of successful executed migrations

• Skilled at working with diverse internal teams (engineering, operations, product) and external stakeholders (clients, custodians, counterparties).

• Capable of defining and aligning technical and business requirements for seamless migration processes.

• Risk Management focus - Ability to identify risks associated with migrations and implement effective mitigation strategies.

• Passionate about improving tools and processes to optimize migration workflows.

• You are proactive in coming up with an informed hypothesis, planning with foresight, and addressing questions or issues early

• You are fluent in English and German (both written and verbal)

Your plus would be:

• Have a background in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or adjacent fields

• You have previous experience within or strong interest into software-/infrastructure-as-a-service products (e.g., BaaS) 

Our Values:

• Make it easy for others. Team over Egos.

• Own the outcome. Progress over Perfection.

• Rise to the challenge. Growth over Comfort.

• Tell the story. Clarity over Ambiguity.

Our Commitment to Belonging

At Upvest we’re dedicated to building an inclusive environment where every Upvenger feels a true sense of belonging and is empowered to do their best work. We are a proud equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Your unique path is what we value.

* These benefits apply if you will be hired in Germany, Estonia or the UK. If you live elsewhere within Europe, some of the benefits might be slightly different.