Principal Product Compliance Lead

Responsibilities

• Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned products within the Vertically Integrated product group.
• Partner with utilities, client delivery, and internal product teams to identify key needs and prioritize impactful solutions.
• Translate insights from real-world utilities into clear product outcomes and measurable success metrics.
• Develop, prioritize, and execute your product roadmap, ensuring we deliver required outcomes, within the timelines agreed to, while also building a flexible experience within our core application.
• Drive standard frameworks and strategy for compliance topics across various product teams, ensuring alignment without constraining team autonomy.
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear product implications and client-facing narratives, supporting sales, delivery, and client trust.
• Contribute to evolving internal compliance best practices and frameworks, helping teams navigate regulatory requirements through a product-led lens.
• Work closely with engineering to build, test, and refine products.
• Drive a best-in-class user experience.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience in enterprise software with experience in the utility industry.
• Ability to translate between regulatory, technical, and business perspectives, simplifying complex product and compliance concepts into actionable product decisions.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams, including engineering, UX and data science.
• Adaptable and thrive in a dynamic environment, whether working on a high-level product strategy or rolling up your sleeves to execute.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to define and track key success metrics.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, balancing technical and business needs.
• Comfort engaging with clients during sales, discovery, and delivery.

Qualifications

• Exceptional stakeholder management and influence skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment and adoption across independent teams without direct authority, particularly on complex, cross-functional, or ambiguous topics.
• Familiarity working with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, SOC2, NIS2, GDPR) and collaborating with security, legal, or compliance stakeholders to translate requirements into product outcomes.
• Experience helping establish scalable product practices, frameworks, or operating models across multiple teams.
• Passion for customer experience, with a strong focus on usability, efficiency, and empathy.

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options including FSAs.
• Paid time off — we have a flexible policy for time off, we don't count days.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Flexible working environment: you need to shift around your schedule? You do you, we genuinely believe in work/life balance.
• Equity Options: every Kraken employee owns part of the business.

Schedule

• Modern office in the heart of Manhattan (Tribeca).

Pay

• The salary range for this senior position in NYC ranges on average from $160,000 - $215,000 depending on relevant experience, role alignment, and expertise demonstrated throughout the interview process.