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Own and scale the global affiliate program across Kraken and Krak, including partner strategy, investment allocation, commercial negotiations, attribution, cohort analysis, fraud controls, and retention-focused optimization. Build the consumer KOL and creator strategy, recruit and manage strategic partners, adapt programs across international markets, and collaborate with Data, Compliance, Product, Creative, and regional teams to drive sustainable customer growth and ROI.

Lead business operations for Kraken Pro by establishing operating rhythms, coordinating cross-functional initiatives, tracking KPIs, supporting executive decisions, managing reporting and roadmaps, triaging inbound requests, and improving operational efficiency. The role partners with product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and marketing teams to launch initiatives across trading and infrastructure products and enhance the product experience.

Provide legal and regulatory guidance on UK cryptoassets, e-money, payment services, AML/CTF, operational resilience, outsourcing, and related products. Support FCA engagement, licensing and registration workstreams, corporate transaction notifications, and regulatory correspondence. Translate complex frameworks into practical advice for business stakeholders while independently managing broad BAU regulatory matters. The role requires a UK-qualified lawyer with substantial financial services regulatory experience, including cryptoasset, payments, and regulator engagement expertise.

Own operations and launch readiness for regulated B2B2C platform products, including KYC/KYB, lending, and unified APIs. Lead cross-functional roadmap execution, regulated-entity operations, licensing workstreams, operational risk, incident management, audits, examinations, and board reporting. Partner with regulators, Legal, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Finance, and external partners to establish governance, controls, documentation, and scalable operating processes.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Operate and scale high-throughput MariaDB/MySQL clusters supporting globally distributed financial services. Responsibilities include database tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, automation, observability, security, containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and partnership with engineering teams. The role also participates in on-call rotations and improves operational reliability through SRE practices, documentation, measurable KPIs, and preventative engineering.

The Mobile UI/Design Engineer will enhance the Kraken app's UI with fluid, gesture-driven interactions in React Native, optimizing for performance and mentoring other engineers.

Leads commercial legal strategy for complex product partnerships and technology agreements. Advises Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Regulatory, Compliance, and Tax teams on go-to-market structures, negotiations, risk, and contract execution. Develops legal templates, playbooks, AI processes, and risk frameworks; improves contract lifecycle management and automation; mentors teams; and supports M&A diligence and integration. The role requires independent judgment in a fast-paced, remote-first fintech environment.

Supports global M&A, strategic investments, and venture portfolio management. Responsibilities include leading transaction diligence, maintaining data rooms, building financial models and valuation analyses, screening opportunities, tracking portfolio performance, forecasting deal-related cash obligations, and preparing executive and Board materials. The role requires strong financial modeling, business analysis, writing, storytelling, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority transactions independently.

Define and execute Kraken’s hybridization and on-chain product strategy across Pro and Consumer products. Own roadmaps, cross-functional execution, ecosystem partnerships, product metrics, experimentation, and the full lifecycle from discovery through iteration. Simplify complex on-chain experiences for consumers while aligning Engineering, Design, Growth, Security, Operations, Legal, and external partners.