Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Lead Kraken Pro’s social presence across X, Telegram, and other platforms. Create platform-native content, respond rapidly to trends, engage the trading community, manage the content calendar, translate product updates into compelling narratives, and track performance to improve results. The role requires strong writing, rapid execution, visual content skills, analytical thinking, and collaboration with Legal and Communications to ensure accurate, compliant messaging.

Leads and develops a team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and infrastructure. Collaborates with Product and Design, guides architecture and implementation, manages execution, improves team processes, and partners with engineering leaders. The manager remains hands-on, writing production-grade backend code, using AI tools, and promoting quality, reliability, accountability, and team autonomy across distributed teams.

Build and operate Kraken’s internal AI platform, including governed integrations, authentication, identity controls, spend management, provisioning, evaluation tooling, and model lifecycle administration. Develop reusable agent and prompt infrastructure, integrate LLM and SaaS APIs, maintain runbooks, support enterprise users, and lead technical enablement. The role also implements data-handling and retention controls, manages vendors, and improves reliability, automation, documentation, and regulatory readiness across the AI estate.

Own the product vision and roadmap for Kraken’s unified exchange infrastructure, including matching, custody, algorithmic trading, APIs, and core systems. Lead four to five product managers, consolidate multiple trading engines, define performance and resiliency metrics, coordinate migrations across live markets, and align product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams. The role requires deep experience with exchange or high-performance platforms, market structure, low-latency architecture, and platform product strategy.

Owns paid static and motion creative for Kraken across multiple advertising platforms and markets. Develops concepts, produces AI-assisted imagery and video, localizes assets, interprets performance data, and iterates creative based on testing results. Collaborates with marketing, compliance, and regional teams while maintaining high visual craft, regulatory alignment, and production speed.

Own the engagement and loyalty product strategy for Kraken and Pro, focusing on retention, session frequency, and lifetime value. Lead product development from discovery through iteration, building growth loops, rewards, gamification, social features, segmentation, and personalized messaging. Partner with Engineering, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Lifecycle, and business leaders to run experiments, optimize funnels, and deliver data-informed improvements across mobile and web products.

Own and scale Kraken’s global affiliate program and build its consumer KOL and creator strategy. Set partner, market, budget, and commercial priorities; negotiate affiliate and creator terms; manage strategic relationships; analyze cohorts, attribution, retention, CAC, ROI, and payback; and improve customer quality. Protect the channel against fraud, abuse, and brand bidding while adapting programs to regional regulations and customer behavior. Collaborate with Data, Product, Creative, Compliance, Performance Marketing, and regional teams.

Lead business operations for Kraken Pro by establishing operating rhythms, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, tracking KPIs, supporting executive decisions, managing reporting and roadmap systems, and identifying operational improvements. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and marketing teams to launch initiatives, improve product experiences, and ensure accountability across priorities.

Owns the people workstream for mergers and acquisitions from diligence through close and integration. Responsibilities include building diligence questionnaires, analyzing employment and compensation data, assessing risks, modeling compensation and equity structures, supporting negotiations, managing integration readiness, and developing reusable playbooks and automation. The role partners with corporate development, legal, finance, and people leadership while operating across global, confidential, and often ambiguous transactions.

Leads financial risk management for a CFTC-registered derivatives clearing organization. Responsibilities include designing and monitoring margin models, recalibrating parameters, conducting back-testing and stress testing, assessing clearing member and clearinghouse exposures, sizing default waterfalls and guaranty funds, preparing regulatory risk reports, maintaining model governance documentation, supporting regulatory examinations, and overseeing member capital, liquidity, collateral, and operational risk.

The Mobile UI/Design Engineer will enhance the Kraken app's user interface through fluid interactions, collaboration with designers, performance optimization, and mentorship, focusing on delivering a polished mobile experience.

Leads commercial legal strategy for complex product partnerships, technology agreements, strategic transactions, and go-to-market initiatives. Advises Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Regulatory, Compliance, and Tax teams; negotiates high-stakes contracts; develops legal templates, playbooks, AI processes, and risk frameworks; improves contract lifecycle management and automation; mentors teams; and supports M&A diligence and integration.

Own the CRM and sales tooling strategy and roadmap for Kraken’s B2B sales organization. Prioritize stakeholder needs, define product requirements, improve Salesforce workflows and integrations, and establish scalable intake and governance processes. Partner with Sales, Engineering, Operations, and leadership to improve CRM adoption, data quality, workflow consistency, and sales productivity across multiple platforms and customer segments.

Define and execute Kraken’s hybridization and broader onchain product strategy across Pro and Consumer. Own the product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration, drive cross-functional execution, evaluate ecosystem integrations, simplify complex onchain experiences, and use metrics and experimentation to improve products. The role requires onchain expertise, consumer product management experience, stakeholder influence, partner negotiation, technical fluency, and strong product judgment.

Define and spec automation workflows for paid growth, translate workflows into agent automations, QA agent outputs, refine AI-generated creative, codify rules and guardrails, monitor and continuously improve cross-channel growth systems.

Design, review, and verify security architecture across infrastructure, applications, blockchain, and AI projects; conduct security assessments and audits; advise blockchain teams on secure operations; stay current on security threats and mitigations.

Lead Consumer Trading product initiatives for Krakendesigning features, prototyping with AI tools, defining requirements, running UAT, collaborating with stakeholders (Finance, Ops), and driving data-driven experimentation and product proposals to engage consumers.

Support M&A and strategic investment activities: lead diligence, build financial models (DCF, comps), prepare deal materials, manage venture portfolio tracking (IRR/MOIC), maintain deal cash forecasts, and produce screening memos and executive/Board materials.

Own product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for fraud and ATO systems. Lead end-to-end delivery, define APIs and technical specs, integrate with vendors, and collaborate with Legal, Risk, Finance, and Ops to build fraud detection, case management, and investigation tools with minimal user friction.

Lead operational running and launch readiness for Payward Services' B2B2C products; gate go-lives for regulatory and operational requirements; manage US regulated entities day-to-day (licensing, risk, incidents, audits); drive cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Finance; support state licensing workstreams (money transmitter, lending/NMLS); serve as operational counterpart to regulators; define metrics and operating model to scale regulated platform offerings.