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Lead Kraken Pro’s social media strategy across X, Telegram, and other platforms. Create platform-native content, react quickly to crypto and trading trends, manage the content calendar, engage the community, translate product updates into compelling narratives, track performance, and optimize through experimentation. Partner with Legal and Communications to ensure accurate, compliant messaging across regions.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and user engagement systems. Partner with Product and Design to prioritize work, guide architecture, improve processes, and deliver reliable production features. The role combines people leadership with hands-on backend software development, technical decision-making, stakeholder communication, and team enablement across distributed time zones.

Own complex market abuse investigations from alert review through regulator-ready findings and stakeholder presentations. Review and recalibrate surveillance thresholds and models, integrate new products and data sources into surveillance platforms, conduct market abuse risk assessments, and support audit remediation. The role also contributes to conflicts of interest, information barriers, personal account dealing, and responsible use of AI and automation in regulated investigative work.

Lead AML, CTF, sanctions, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, and financial crime compliance across two FCA-regulated UK entities. Maintain policies, risk assessments, controls, reporting, training, audits, regulatory engagement, and board-level oversight. Approve high-risk relationships, oversee SAR/DAML reporting, drive strategic initiatives such as the Travel Rule, and liaise with the FCA, NCA, and law enforcement agencies.

Build and operate Kraken’s internal AI platform, including governed integrations, authentication, internal tooling, evaluation systems, spend controls, identity and access controls, provisioning, vendor configuration, and policy enforcement. Provide technical enablement through documentation, deep dives, and office hours while supporting teams and administering the enterprise AI estate.

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.

Owns paid static creative for Kraken across launches, campaigns, promotions, and always-on marketing. Develops platform-native static and motion ads for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X; produces AI-assisted imagery and video; versions assets across markets and languages; interprets performance data to improve creative; and collaborates with marketing, compliance, and regional teams to deliver approved, high-quality work.

Own engineering operations processes and tooling for the Consumer group. Administer Jira and Confluence, manage intake and triage, maintain roadmaps, produce delivery reporting, and ensure engineering metrics data quality. Use AI and automation to reduce manual work and improve developer productivity. Translate stakeholder requests into scoped solutions, document processes, and support scalable internal tools and workflows.

Own engagement and retention strategy across Kraken consumer products, including roadmap, retention, session frequency, and lifetime value metrics. Lead discovery through launch, develop growth loops, rewards, gamification, social features, and personalized experiences. Partner with Engineering, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Lifecycle, and business leaders to run experiments, segment users, optimize funnels, and drive repeat usage across mobile and web applications.

Build and scale Kraken Pro’s KOL and creator network across Spain and Iberia. Acquire trading users through influencer partnerships, manage creator relationships, promote derivatives products, set regional acquisition and CAC targets, resolve execution issues, and collaborate with growth, marketing, and compliance teams.