Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Manage Kraken’s global equity administration, including cap table maintenance, equity plan transactions, option exercises, vesting, tax withholding, reconciliations, participant support, audits, secondary transactions, and stock transfers. Partner with Legal, Finance, HR, Payroll, Corporate Governance, auditors, and external stakeholders to maintain accurate reporting, compliance, and efficient equity programs worldwide.

Lead US operations for Kraken Securities and xStocks, overseeing equity order flow, clearing, settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions, token issuance, asset movements, regulatory controls, vendors, incident response, and launch readiness. Serve as a registered principal, build scalable operating procedures and teams, manage KPIs and costs, and partner with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, and external market infrastructure providers.

Supports global talent acquisition operations, including interview scheduling, executive hiring coordination, pre-boarding, background checks, candidate communications, and new-hire setup. Maintains accurate records in Ashby and Workday, coordinates across time zones, applies hiring policies, identifies risks, and partners with recruiters, hiring managers, executive assistants, and onboarding teams to deliver an efficient candidate and hiring experience.

Own business operations for Payward Services, including partner launch readiness, business planning, leadership reporting, operating cadence, process automation, and strategic cross-functional initiatives. Build repeatable launch processes, integrate new products and acquisitions into operating rhythms, track performance metrics, and improve workflows across Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance.

Design and operate production infrastructure for AI agent systems, including high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution. Build scalable distributed systems, MLOps capabilities, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery for millions of users. Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost while partnering with agent systems and infrastructure teams to harden experimental prototypes for production.

Own end-to-end product design for zero-to-one AI products serving external consumers and internal teams. Lead discovery, research, concept development, prototyping, delivery, and launch while designing trustworthy experiences for non-deterministic intelligent systems. Partner directly with product, engineering, and leadership to influence strategy and roadmap decisions, test ideas rapidly, and maintain a high bar for visual craft, usability, and scalable design systems.

Owns the end-to-end creation of paid performance video for Kraken Consumer across launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing activity. Responsibilities include concepting, producing, editing, AI-assisted generation, platform-specific adaptation, localization, testing, and regulatory approval. The role interprets creative performance data to improve future concepts and cuts, supports paid static creative, maintains high production standards, and collaborates with marketing, compliance, product, and regional teams.

Leads AML transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, scenario design, and alert reduction. Drives FIU automation and workflow improvements, evaluates AI-enabled compliance tools, and partners with Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and vendors on monitoring infrastructure and integrations. Supports scalable compliance controls across new products, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes while maintaining regulatory alignment and detection effectiveness.

Supports the broker-dealer compliance program by conducting risk assessments, monitoring KYC, CIP, suitability, sanctions, and communications surveillance, updating supervisory procedures, reviewing marketing materials, managing regulatory reporting, onboarding compliance activities, and assisting with audits and examinations. The role requires collaboration with leadership, HR, and business teams to remediate issues and adapt compliance controls to evolving FINRA, SEC, and state requirements.

Provides high-level administrative support to senior executives in the CEO office. Responsibilities include managing complex calendars, coordinating domestic and international travel, preparing briefings and meeting materials, supporting events and cross-functional projects, tracking budgets and tasks, processing expenses, and handling sensitive information with discretion. The role requires proactive problem-solving, strong organization, communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively across time zones and changing priorities.

Leads the vision, architecture, modernization, and operation of Kraken’s financial systems. The role manages engineering teams, establishes financial data quality and lineage standards, improves ledgers and reconciliations, supports crypto and traditional finance integrations, and partners with Finance, Product, Risk, Security, Compliance, and Engineering leaders. It also oversees migration, testing, observability, controls, incident response, and transformation roadmaps while maintaining reliable financial operations.

Build and operate trusted finance data products, pipelines, models, reconciliations, dashboards, and automation. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to resolve data issues, improve reporting, support financial close, establish data lake quality controls, and enable timely insights. Use SQL, Python, dbt, Spark, Airflow, and AI-assisted tools to deliver tested, traceable, production-ready solutions.

Designs high-quality 2D and 3D brand creative for product launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing marketing. Builds Cinema 4D assets, Figma systems, component libraries, templates, and localization-ready campaign kits. Extends the consumer brand across web, social, lifecycle, illustration, and partner initiatives. Collaborates with marketing, compliance, regional, motion, web, and AI video teams while maintaining strong creative standards and working effectively within regulatory constraints.

Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO office in a Co-CEO model: manage complex calendars, coordinate domestic and international travel (commercial and private aviation), prepare briefing materials, oversee budgets/expenses, track projects and events, and liaise with stakeholders to streamline executive operations.

Own Kraken Pro’s organic growth strategy across SEO, content, social, community, referrals, and partnerships. Lead funnel analysis from discovery through first trade, improve UX and onboarding with Product and Design, run growth experiments, build performance dashboards, and ensure compliant messaging. Manage and coach a small team while remaining hands-on in execution. The role requires B2C acquisition expertise, product and UX instincts, analytical rigor, trading or fintech familiarity, and strong cross-functional leadership.

The Director of Legal Operations will own Legal’s operating model, technology, AI strategy, budgeting, resourcing, vendor management, workflows, metrics, and change management. The role will modernize Legal through automation, secure AI deployment, standardized processes, knowledge management, demand management, and data-driven performance controls. This leader will partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Finance, and legal stakeholders to improve efficiency, manage risk, optimize costs, and enable attorneys to focus on strategic legal work.

Build and scale US finance and investing creator and affiliate partnerships to drive funded accounts and trading volume. The role owns partner acquisition, commercial negotiations, CPA and revenue-share structures, tracking, attribution, payouts, compliance coordination, campaign execution, and performance optimization. Success is measured through trading volume, funded accounts, retention, CAC, revenue, and acquisition outcomes. The role also collaborates with Growth, Marketing, Product, Legal, Compliance, and regional business development teams.

Own the strategy, design, prototyping, launch, and optimization of social investing and trading experiences. Define user journeys, interaction details, product scope, and success metrics; conduct usability research; analyze funnel, cohort, and experiment data; collaborate with design, engineering, and data science; and improve user participation, trust, retention, and engagement.

Own the vision and roadmap for Payward’s payments platform, including its backend, APIs, SDKs, hosted pages, and embedded components. Partner with engineering, banking, partnerships, compliance, risk, and legal teams to prioritize capabilities, integrate payment rails, support internal clients, and improve adoption and payment performance. Define platform metrics, manage stakeholder trade-offs, and enable clients to launch payment products efficiently across jurisdictions.

Lead global external communications for Payward and Kraken’s professional trading, institutional, and derivatives products. Develop integrated communications strategies, thought leadership, messaging, media materials, executive positioning, and spokesperson programs. Build relationships with institutional stakeholders, trading desks, market data providers, agencies, and media. Apply social-first approaches to reach professional trading audiences while mentoring and scaling communications teams in a fast-paced crypto environment.