Principal Program Manager

As a Principal Program Manager, you will act as the central coordination point for a critical cross-company strategic program between lemon.markets and dwpbank. You will bring clarity to complexity, align stakeholders across both organizations, and drive the overall program across commercial, product, and governance workstreams.

What you'll do

• 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.
• 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, 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.

What you'll need

• Strong experience in program management, strategic project leadership, or change delivery in a complex financial-services environment.
• Experience in securities services, custody, brokerage, wealth management, asset management, or adjacent financial infrastructure environments.
• Ability to navigate regulated environments and cross-functional dependencies across multiple senior stakeholders.
• Capacity to absorb complex context quickly, structure ambiguity, and turn it into practical action.
• Strategic thinking combined with hands-on mindset, strong execution discipline, and clear drive to make progress.
• Patient, thoughtful communicator who can build trust, create alignment, and move topics forward across organizational boundaries.
• Strong commercial instincts and understanding of how product, execution, and business development interact in strategic initiatives.
• Fluency in German and English.

What they offer

• Competitive salary based on your experience and value-add.
• Flexible working hours with core collaboration hours from 12:00 to 16:00.
• Hybrid work setup in Germany with regular on-site time in Berlin office.
• Regular mentorship, stretch opportunities, and annual learning budget.
• Deutschlandticket sponsorship and 50% off Beatvest financial education.
• Workation: work remotely from anywhere in the EU up to 60 days per year.