Jobs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Own end-to-end product design for new B2C and internal AI products, from discovery and prototyping through launch and iteration. Lead zero-to-one design in ambiguous environments, shape non-deterministic user experiences, conduct research, influence product strategy, and partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership. Create visually rich, scalable experiences with strong UX, visual design, systems thinking, and craft.

Owns end-to-end paid video creative for Kraken Consumer, from concept through production, editing, approval, localization, and delivery across multiple platforms and markets. Uses generative AI as a core production method, develops platform-native concepts, interprets creative testing data, and creates iterative performance assets. Collaborates with marketing, compliance, product, and regional teams while maintaining high craft, speed, and regulatory standards.

Lead a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers building scalable consumer experiences across mobile and client platforms. Own end-to-end UX delivery, partner with Product and Design, uphold engineering standards, improve usability and performance, mentor engineers, and strengthen agile delivery using metrics such as DORA and cycle time.

Conduct market surveillance across regulated crypto and financial markets by reviewing alerts, analyzing trade and order data, investigating potential market abuse, assessing referrals, drafting suspicious activity and transaction reports, producing regulatory reporting, and supporting surveillance platform enhancements. The role also uses AI and automation for evidence gathering while applying human judgment and maintaining compliance standards.

Lead complex market abuse investigations, review analysts’ work, and present findings to senior stakeholders. Support surveillance threshold and model calibration, platform tooling, suspicious activity reporting, risk assessments, and surveillance coverage development. The role requires market conduct investigation experience, knowledge of abuse typologies across asset classes, surveillance platform expertise, SQL proficiency, strong written judgment, and the ability to escalate issues appropriately.

Leads AML transaction-monitoring optimization, rule testing, threshold tuning, scenario design, and false-positive reduction. Drives FIU automation and workflow improvements, evaluates AI and LLM tools, supports alert triage and investigations, and partners with Product, Engineering, Operations, and vendors on compliance technology integrations. Helps scale monitoring frameworks across products, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes while maintaining regulatory alignment.

Build and operate production AI infrastructure powering intelligent agents at scale. Develop high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution; design scalable distributed systems; establish MLOps, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery; and optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost. Partner with agent systems and infrastructure teams to turn prototypes into hardened services serving millions of users.

Own daily operations and quality assurance for an internal AI-powered growth platform. Test releases, rule changes, edge cases, and regressions; document and verify bug fixes; monitor platform and agent activity; manage approval queues; evaluate agent output; escalate risks; and maintain test plans, QA checklists, runbooks, and release notes.

Build trusted finance data products, scalable pipelines, analytical models, automated reconciliations, dashboards, and finance data lake capabilities. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to resolve discrepancies, improve reporting, automate close activities, establish data quality controls, and enable near-real-time insights. Evaluate AI-assisted automation and own production reliability, testing, documentation, monitoring, and exception handling.

Designs static 2D and 3D brand creative for product launches, campaigns, promotions, and ongoing marketing. Creates Cinema 4D assets, extends brand systems across channels and markets, builds Figma libraries and localization-ready templates, and uses AI-assisted production tools. Partners with marketing, compliance, regional, motion, web, and performance teams to deliver approved work. Maintains a high craft standard, contributes strategic ideas, and provides constructive design feedback.

Own Kraken Pro’s organic growth strategy across SEO, content, social, community, referrals, and partnerships. Lead acquisition from discovery through first trade, improve UX and conversion funnels, run experiments, build growth dashboards, and develop brand-driven acquisition. Manage and coach a lean team while partnering with Product, Design, Legal, and Communications to deliver compliant, high-impact growth across regions.

Build and own React Native features for Kraken’s consumer mobile app, from product discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. Partner with Product and Design to create responsive, trustworthy financial experiences using dynamic or real-time data. Guide development for a new Asian-market app, including regional UX, connectivity restrictions, vendors, and telemetry. Contribute to architecture, performance, reliability, code reviews, and product engineering standards.

Own the strategy, design, prototyping, launch, and optimization of social investing and trading experiences. Define user journeys, interaction details, experiments, and success metrics; conduct usability research; analyze funnel and retention data; collaborate with design, engineering, and data science; and prioritize improvements across feeds, profiles, sharing, discovery, and community features.

Own the vision and roadmap for a global payments platform, including its backend, APIs, SDKs, hosted pages, and embedded components. Define requirements across internal clients, prioritize capabilities, partner with engineering and banking teams, coordinate integrations, incorporate compliance and risk needs, and track adoption and payment performance metrics. The role requires strong payments knowledge, technical fluency, developer-product experience, structured communication, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making.

Lead global external communications for professional trading, derivatives, and institutional products. Develop integrated communications strategies, thought leadership, messaging, media materials, executive communications, and spokesperson programs. Build relationships with institutional stakeholders, trading desks, market data providers, internal teams, and agencies. Apply social-first media relations and content strategies while mentoring and scaling communications teams in a fast-paced crypto environment.

Own the investigation-platform roadmap for Financial Crime Operations, including alert ingestion, enrichment, grouping, suppression, case management, investigator workflows, auditability, and regulated AI automation. Translate compliance policies and investigator needs into requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, validate system design and data flows, support audits, and ensure controls for explainability, evidence retention, lineage, and change management.

Own regulatory analytics and reporting by building audit-ready datasets, pipelines, dashboards, compliance metrics, and automated workflows. Analyze complex data, monitor quality, support audits and regulatory exams, and deliver actionable insights to compliance teams and leadership. Translate regulatory requirements into accurate reports using Python, SQL, dbt, and Airflow while partnering cross-functionally to manage data issues and remediation.

Own Kraken Consumer’s growth marketing enablement product roadmap, connecting marketing and product to improve acquisition, conversion, reactivation, and retention. Design campaign journeys, lifecycle messaging, incentives, referral mechanics, landing pages, and measurement foundations across web and mobile. Lead experimentation, define funnel metrics, and partner with marketing, design, engineering, and data teams to deliver growth initiatives.

Build and grow the Kraken Pro trading community across Discord, Telegram, X, TradingView, Reddit, and other channels. Engage directly with traders, manage ambassadors and power users, lead AMAs and live events, communicate product updates, gather actionable feedback for Product, create high-quality content, and measure community impact through sentiment, share of voice, signups, and retention.

Own the product vision and roadmap for Kraken’s exchange infrastructure, including matching engines, custody, algorithmic trading, APIs, and core systems. Lead four to five product managers, consolidate multiple exchange engines, define performance and resiliency metrics, and coordinate migrations across product, engineering, risk, credit, and compliance teams. The role requires strong knowledge of exchange architecture, market structure, low-latency systems, platform strategy, and crypto markets, while remaining hands-on with roadmaps and specifications.