Investing Operations Specialist

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable everyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses, providing seamless access to capital markets. By empowering FinTechs, Banks and Asset Managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets provides a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform for simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant. We abstract all complexity for our partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework. Enabling partners to launch in weeks, not months.

We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. Building an investment product used to be highly expensive, challenging and cumbersome. We ease this pain by shielding our partners & their customers from the underlying complexity - and with that we make investing more accessible to everyone. Because that’s exactly what we enjoy, going to places nobody else dares and solving hard problems. This not only creates tons of value when done right, but attracts the smartest minds - because outlier companies are built by exceptional (& diverse) people like you.

Your Mission:

Your mission is to build and operate the wealth function within lemon.markets, from defining processes and workflows to ensuring seamless daily execution. As our Investing Operations Specialist, you will be the go-to person for anything related to wealth operations, translating regulatory requirements into scalable, reliable processes. You’ll work closely with both Product and Engineering to design and implement wealth management processes and help define the operational foundations for regulatory reporting, customer experience, and daily execution.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping and maintaining the core operational processes within our Investing Domain, including Market Operations and Securities Operations, to ensure a smooth and compliant end-to-end customer journey. This is your opportunity to build something critical from the ground up and make investment operations a competitive advantage for lemon.markets.

We value ownership deeply. You won’t just run processes, you’ll design them, shape them, and ensure they scale. Your work will directly influence how customers experience our investment platform and how we scale operations for the long term.

About you:

• You have experience in Wealth Management Operations, ideally in a bank, brokerage, or investment platform. As such, you understand German & European wealth-related regulations (e.g., MiFID II, KAGB) and can apply them.

• You have a deep understanding of the securities lifecycle and extensive industry knowledge

• You have broad knowledge of investment products: funds, structured products, mandates, ETFs, Stocks and Bonds

• You have a good understanding of custody structures, portfolio booking, and corporate actions

• You are confident in providing guidance to the colleagues by sharing your knowledge and take responsibility for creating handbooks, building processes and defining policies.

• You have experience with applicable regulation and its implementation in the operational trading process

• You are fluent in German and English, other languages are always welcome

You will be successful in this role if:

• You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can take ownership and drive operational excellence from day one.

• You have a hands-on approach and are excited to shape processes from scratch — defining workflows, building documentation, and ensuring operational readiness.

• You bring deep operational expertise in wealth management and securities, and can confidently translate regulatory requirements (e.g., MiFID II, KAGB) into practical, scalable processes.

• You are comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, legal, and compliance teams to implement end-to-end investment operations.

• You think critically about operational risk and proactively identify ways to improve reliability, efficiency, and customer experience.

• You take pride in creating clarity — whether that’s through a well-designed process, a clear policy, or a comprehensive operations manual.

• You’re not just comfortable working in ambiguity — you see it as an opportunity to build, influence, and lead.

• You can prioritise effectively. Meaning, you are able to sift through the noise and assess what's critical for the current priority.

• You enjoy building mission-critical infrastructure. That means abstracting complexity for our partners and customers alike and scaling towards high volumes.

• “This is not my job!” is not part of your vocabulary. You are motivated by nature to deliver value for our partners by taking initiative and challenging the status quo, even if this means admitting one's own shortcomings and changing things.
  
  We're looking for people with passion, desire to learn and that are team players. You're encouraged to apply, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns.

How we take care of you:

🚀Competitive compensation package:

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

💎Make a real impact:

Shape the experience for our customers and us alike. Decide on tools, processes and the architecture design of our Platform & API, while building, learning and growing together.

🕑Flexible working hours:

We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.

💻Build your perfect setup:

MacBook, IDE, productivity tools. These are not expenses but investments. Please tell us what is needed to make you productive, and we will take care of it.

🏢 Onsite first, but remote flexible:

We all believe that in - person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but offer flexibility for remote working. Once a quarter the whole team meets for our offsite to honer this belief. In case you want to relocate to Berlin, we can provide assistance and visa sponsorship.

📈 Grow with us:

We take your personal development seriously, meaning that we make sure to constantly mentor and challenge you so that you can reach your next level and beyond.

👶🏽 Get the flexibility you need:

Whether you have a family or a passion that you want to follow on the side. We want to offer you a setting that fits your current stage in life.

Diversity Commitment statement:🌈

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.

Interview Process

About the process

Hiring can be an exhausting process, especially when you're the one trying to get hired. Therefore, we try to make this a fast and transparent process. Additionally, you will always have one contact person guiding you through the process and helping you to schedule meetings, and setting you up on a path of success. Your process will look like this:

1. Get to know us - Melissa - Talent | 40 minutes

2. Meet the Hiring Manager - Dev - Securities Operations Lead | 60 minutes

3. Meet the Leadership - Laura - VP Brokerage

4. Meet us at our lemon.markets HQ

   1. Case study - Dev - Securities Operations Lead, Isaac - Head of Product & Guido - Head of Risk Management | 60 minutes

   2. Principles' Session - A selection of lemoneers | 60 minutes