Principal Program Manager (f/m/x)

• 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.

• 🚀 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 talent@lemon.markets