Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Program Manager

• Own and manage Kraken’s global sanctions screening program
• Design and execute screening strategy to support regulatory compliance, business growth, product launches, and global expansion
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Engineering to lead and execute tuning efforts for sanctions screening tooling and related controls
• Participate in annual and ad-hoc enterprise, product, and sanctions risk assessments
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Client Engagement, and Finance to embed sanctions screening requirements into new and existing products
• Lead business requirements documentation (BRDs) for sanctions screening initiatives

Senior Screening Program Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Be the product manager for Kraken’s Financial Systems, covering accounting, treasury, and related financial platforms.
• Work closely with your engineering squads to establish a strong product culture and clear ownership within a historically project-driven domain.
• Partner deeply with Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into scalable, reliable system capabilities.
• Collaborate with product owners across the organisation whose teams integrate with or depend on financial and treasury systems, ensuring alignment, clear interfaces, and shared priorities.
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure complex financial and technical challenges are solved in ways that ensure accuracy, auditability, scalability, and resilience.
• Drive the development process end-to-end, ensuring products are delivered on time and meet Kraken’s quality, reliability, and control standards.
• Participate in strengthening the overall product group through close collaboration with your globally distributed team of fellow product managers.

Product Manager II – Financial Systems

• Own and manage Kraken’s global sanctions screening program
• Design and execute screening strategy to support regulatory compliance, business growth, product launches, and global expansion
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Engineering to lead and execute tuning efforts for sanctions screening tooling
• Participate in annual and ad-hoc enterprise, product, and sanctions risk assessments
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Client Engagement, and Finance to embed sanctions screening requirements into new and existing products
• Lead business requirements documentation (BRDs) for sanctions screening initiatives
• Support regulatory exams, audits, testing, and inquiries related to sanctions screening controls
• Drive process improvements, documentation quality, and program maturity across all sanctions screening verticals.

Compliance

• Independently conduct complex KYC EDD quality control for higher-risk individual and corporate clients, including PEPs, high-risk jurisdictions, and complex ownership structures, in line with UK regulatory requirements.
• Analyze source of wealth, source of funds, business activities, and beneficial ownership, using OSINT, public records, adverse media, and blockchain analytics to identify and assess financial crime risks.
• Deliver clear, risk-based assessments and recommendations, escalating higher-risk or unusual matters in accordance with defined approval and governance thresholds.
• Perform quality control and peer reviews of EDD activity to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to internal standards and FCA expectations, and identify recurring quality issues for remediation.
• Act as a point of contact for UK EDD-related queries, supporting Client Engagement and Onboarding teams and liaising with the Regional Compliance team to ensure alignment with regional policies and standards.
• Provide informal mentoring and knowledge-sharing to junior associates and contribute to the continuous improvement of UK-specific EDD procedures, QC guidance, and training materials.

Senior Compliance Associate Lead, Enhanced Due Diligence

• Monitor and ensure ongoing compliance with CySEC regulatory requirements, MiFID II, AML directives, and other applicable EU regulations (e.g. IFR, DORA etc).
• Assist in the development, implementation, and review of compliance policies, procedures, and manuals.
• Conduct compliance risk assessments and audits, and recommend corrective actions where necessary.
• Support the preparation and timely submission of regulatory reports, notifications, and filings to CySEC and other authorities.
• Advise management and business units on compliance-related matters and regulatory changes.
• Liaise with CySEC and external auditors on compliance issues and inspections.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of client transactions, KYC/AML reviews, and reporting of suspicious activities (SARs).
• Provide compliance training and guidance to staff across all departments.
• Contribute to the firm’s compliance monitoring program and assist in regulatory gap analyses.
• Maintain a deep understanding of complex compliance risks/issues, identify root causes of inefficiencies, and develop effective process improvement strategies to streamline the operations teams’ processes.
• Review Marketing Communication and advise on alignment of content with MiFID II marketing guidelines.
• Review Professional clients applications according to MiiFID II standards.
• Stay abreast on industry standards and CySEC/EU regulatory developments and consider application of regulatory requirements with a global focus, if necessary.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the direct manager and/or senior management.

Regulatory MiFID Officer, Cyprus

Strategy

• Control, monitor, and analyse Krak fraud trends: Stay up to date with the latest fraud trends, techniques, and technologies in the crypto industry. Conduct in-depth analysis of fraud patterns and identify potential vulnerabilities to proactively mitigate risks.
• Monitor and analyse payment trends: Stay current with payment regulations, trends, techniques, and technologies within the crypto industry. Conduct detailed analysis of payment patterns and identify opportunities to proactively increase revenue.
• Policy, process, rules creation and fraud prevention strategies: Create and maintain effective fraud and payment policies, processes, Strategies and rule frameworks.
• Develop and implement fraud prevention strategies: Including Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Fraud org teams, Product, Engineering, and Security, to design and implement effective fraud prevention strategies and frameworks for the crypto platform.
• Risk assessment, mitigation, governance, and audit controls: Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential Krak fraud and payment risks and vulnerabilities. Implement preventive measures and controls to mitigate risks effectively and support governance and audit requirements.
• Support business growth and compliance controls: Balance fraud prevention with customer experience and revenue optimisation.
• Fraud detection and investigation: Develop and maintain robust Krak fraud detection systems and tools to identify suspicious activities, transactions, and patterns. Own and lead investigations into suspected fraudulent activity, gathering evidence and working closely with Krak Product, Legal, and Compliance teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Customer Engagement, Compliance, Legal, and other internal teams to ensure effective coordination and communication on Krak fraud- and payment-related matters.
• Data analysis and reporting: Utilise data analytics tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights and produce regular reporting on fraud and payment trends, patterns, and key performance indicators. Present findings to your manager and recommend strategies for continuous improvement.
• Regulatory compliance: Stay abreast of relevant laws, regulations, and industry guidelines related to fraud prevention and payments, ensuring organisational compliance. Develop and maintain effective fraud frameworks and procedures.
• Leadership and mentorship: Provide guidance, mentorship, and training to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• OKRs and strategic delivery: Develop and implement Krak fraud and payments improvement OKRs and strategies in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Business reporting: Deliver clear and actionable business reporting on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Best practice guidance: Provide guidance and support to internal teams on best practices across payment methods.

Strategy Manager, Fraud

• Control, monitor, and analyse Krak fraud trends
• Monitor and analyse payment trends
• Create and maintain effective fraud and payment policies, processes, Strategies and rule frameworks
• Develop and implement fraud prevention strategies
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential Krak fraud and payment risks and vulnerabilities
• Support business growth and compliance controls
• Develop and maintain robust Krak fraud detection systems and tools
• Partner with Customer Engagement, Compliance, Legal, and other internal teams
• Utilise data analytics tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights
• Deliver clear and actionable business reporting
• Provide guidance and support to internal teams on best practices

Manager

• Own the overall success of Kraken Embed and Kraken Ramp, including strategy, adoption, revenue growth, and partner outcomes
• Act as the GM and business owner for these services, with accountability for results rather than just roadmap delivery
• Define and evolve product strategy and roadmap in close partnership with product and engineering managers, payments, and blockchain platform teams
• Drive go-to-market execution including pricing, packaging, partner segmentation, and distribution strategy
• Work deeply with Sales leadership and frontline sellers to support pipeline development, deal execution, and strategic account growth
• Be externally facing with partners and prospective clients, including sales calls, executive meetings, and select industry events
• Build and scale relationships across banks, neobanks, fintechs, and embedded finance platforms, leveraging existing networks where possible
• Lead and develop a growing team across product and engineering
• Align closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Operations to navigate regulatory and operational constraints across global markets
• Represent Kraken Embed and Ramp internally, securing resources, aligning priorities, and unblocking cross-functional dependencies
• Define and track success metrics across adoption, volume, revenue, and partner success

General Manager – Embed and Ramp

Security Analyst

• Assist clients in regaining access to their Kraken accounts
• Investigate suspicious activity
• Analyze cases and alerts to identify potential threats
• Communicate with clients primarily through email
• Suggest and help implement workflow improvements

Client Security Analyst

Performance Marketing

• Lead paid DSP and social strategy, development, and execution to scale Kraken's growth globally.
• Manage and optimize user acquisition campaigns to achieve CAC and payback goals across each of our priority geos and customer segments.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on campaign effectiveness, providing detailed analysis and strategic recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Effectively manage a multi-million dollar monthly performance marketing budget
• Drive continuous campaign improvement through rigorous KPI analysis, testing and optimization to scale user acquisition within paid search.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including creative, data analytics, product marketing and regional growth to align on campaign goals and strategies.

Performance Marketing Manager

Operations

• Execute and validate configuration changes across spot, futures, and margin product
• Ensure all changes follow defined approval flows, version control, and documentation standards
• Monitoring exchange health and responding to alerts in real time
• Perform first-line incident triage and escalation to engineering when required
• Support post-incident analysis, documentation and remediation tasks
• Perform structured readiness checks ahead of changes (configuration diffs, scenario testing)
• Maintain and improve runbooks, SOPs, checklists, and operational documentation
• Ideate new admin tools and automation, providing structured feedback to engineering during testing
• Identify repetitive or error-prone workflows and propose automation opportunities
• Support Compliance, Finance, Risk, and internal reporting workflows where automation is not yet available
• Act as a liaison between Operations, Product, Engineering, and Client Support

Senior Associate, Exchange Operations

People Operations

• Analyze complex people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, leveraging automation to improve speed, accuracy, and repeatability
• Leverage all People team systems (e.g. Workday, Workday Prism, Qualtrics) to fulfill adhoc and recurring data requests efficiently
• Support the listening strategy with survey design, dashboard deployment, and analysis
• Partner with stakeholders on the KX team to support people strategies and initiatives

People Analytics Partner

Business Development Rep

• Define and own Kraken’s global business development and partnership strategy in close partnership with the executive team
• Identify, evaluate, and pursue strategic partnership opportunities that expand product reach, drive incremental monetization, and accelerate new product launches
• Oversee the full partnership lifecycle, including strategy development, market mapping, target assessment, due diligence, deal structuring, negotiation, execution, and integration planning
• Lead, manage, and grow a high-performing Business Development team, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and results-oriented culture
• Work closely with leaders across Product Management, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Compliance, Marketing, and Operations to execute complex cross-functional initiatives
• Build rigorous business cases and financial models to evaluate partnership opportunities and support commercial decision-making
• Articulate key value drivers, risks, and strategic considerations in concise deal memos and executive presentations; drive alignment and effective decision-making across Kraken’s leadership team
• Cultivate and maintain a deep external network across crypto, fintech, and traditional financial services to stay ahead of industry trends and partnership opportunities
• Monitor market dynamics, competitive activity, and regulatory developments to inform partnership strategy and identify opportunities for differentiation

VP, Business Development

Vice President

• Define and drive Kraken’s global M&A and strategic investment strategy in conjunction with Kraken’s leadership team
• Lead, manage, and grow our existing (and exceptionally high-caliber) Corporate development team
• Actively identify potential acquisition targets, JV, and/or investment opportunities to accelerate the realization of Kraken’s strategic objectives
• Own the entire deal process including sourcing, due diligence, contract negotiation, closing, and integration
• Work with leaders across functions, including Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Legal, Finance, and Marketing throughout the due diligence and integration planning processes
• Lead negotiations on purchase price and deal terms; build financial models to support valuation and establish key benchmarks for post-integration planning
• Articulate key value drivers and considerations for potential M&A opportunities in concise deal memos and executive presentations; actively build consensus and drive effective decision-making across leadership and the wider organization
• Monitor industry trends, market dynamics, and competitor activities to inform strategic decision-making and identify opportunities for differentiation or competitive advantage
• Build and maintain an extensive network in the crypto industry to maintain deal flow and stay on top of key trends and developments

Senior Screening Program Manager

Product Manager II – Financial Systems

Senior Screening Program Manager

Senior Compliance Associate Lead, Enhanced Due Diligence

Regulatory MiFID Officer, Cyprus

Product Manager II – Financial Systems

Strategy Manager, Fraud

Strategy Manager, Fraud

General Manager – Embed and Ramp

Client Security Analyst

Performance Marketing Manager

Senior Associate, Exchange Operations

People Analytics Partner

VP, Business Development

VP, Corporate Development