(Senior) Investment Compliance Manager (f/m/x)

ABOUT LEMON.MARKETS 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank Group, we share a clear goal: we enable anyone to be an investor by making investing in capital markets more accessible. By combining dwpbank’s long-standing expertise and stability with lemon.markets’ technology-first mindset and speed, we are building a modern, modular securities services ecosystem. Together, we offer faster time-to-market, modular services, and a modern customer experience that helps financial service providers stay competitive and respond more flexibly in a changing market. YOUR MISSION As our Investment Compliance Manager, you will own and strengthen our Investment Compliance Function across the securities business, ensuring that our products, processes, and partner activities remain fully aligned with WPHG requirements. The role sits close to our Investing Domain and Customer Lifecycle Domain and is designed as an embedded compliance role with strong exposure to Product, Engineering, Operations, Partner Management, and other first-line functions. Your work will directly support compliant product growth by ensuring that new features, instruments, customer journeys, and partner setups are reviewed early and implemented in line with regulatory expectations. In the first months, your focus will be on understanding the existing framework, taking end-to-end ownership of day-to-day WPHG compliance topics, and further detailing and improving an already solid control setup. You will have the opportunity to combine oversight with forward-looking advisory work, helping the business move quickly while maintaining high regulatory standards in a product-driven and highly collaborative environment. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL: - Review key WPHG topics such as best execution, inducements, appropriateness, product governance, customer classification, conflicts of interest, market abuse, safeguarding of customer assets, and complaint-related processes, ensuring that the existing framework is applied correctly and further developed where needed. - Monitor first-line implementation and controls across customer order handling, partner activities, tied-agent setups, and customer-facing journeys, including marketing materials, app flows, and disclosures, to ensure customers are informed clearly and not steered inappropriately. - Advise Product, Engineering, Operations in the Investing and Customer Lifecycle Domains on new features, financial instruments, customer types, and process changes, so regulatory requirements are considered early and product development can move forward in a compliant way. - Collaborate closely with Partner Management and relevant internal teams to assess whether partner-operated materials and processes under our license meet our standards and regulatory obligations. - Prepare and further develop WPHG compliance reporting for management, including regular assessments of business development, customer and transaction volumes, incidents, and potential deviations from internal or regulatory requirements. YOU’LL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - You bring at least 5 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 3 years of hands-on WPHG compliance experience in a licensed fintech or bank, with a clear focus on securities services or securities distribution. - You have strong expertise in German regulatory requirements relevant to investment