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Owns viral growth, referrals, creator and KOL acquisition for Kraken’s consumer products. Sets new transacting user targets, builds sharing and referral systems, manages the KOL platform roadmap, improves creator tools, and optimizes acquisition economics. Responsibilities include funnel and cohort analysis, experimentation, instrumentation validation, fraud-cost management, and cross-functional execution across product, engineering, design, data, and marketing.

Lead the assessment, architecture, and improvement of large-scale database infrastructure centered on MariaDB. Diagnose failures, tune performance, strengthen replication, backups, disaster recovery, observability, and reliability. Build production automation for provisioning, upgrades, failover, and schema changes. Partner with application teams on data design, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical decisions, and participate in incident response.

Conduct end-to-end information security risk assessments, document and track findings, maintain risk registers, develop KRIs and reporting, and improve scalable risk workflows. Partner with technical, compliance, audit, engineering, and legal teams to contextualize and remediate risks. Support audit readiness and automate risk processes within Kraken’s Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance program.

Own security governance, risk, and compliance integration for acquired companies. Assess security posture, map controls to internal and external frameworks, score maturity, define and track remediation milestones, manage entity risks, support external audits, maintain policy coverage, and coordinate with M&A technology teams, acquired leadership, auditors, and control owners across jurisdictions.

Build and maintain Haskell services for a regulated derivatives exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage. Design database schemas, constraints, indexes, queries, and reversible migrations for financial data. Optimize production queries, monitor systems, respond to alerts, support settlement operations, and resolve production issues. Collaborate across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance while ensuring correctness, auditability, and reliability of systems handling orders, trades, and settlements.

Build and operate DevOps infrastructure for regulated digital-asset exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems. Responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines, managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, running containerized services on Nomad, developing deployment tooling with health checks and rollback, monitoring systems, responding to production alerts, supporting settlement operations, and contributing to Haskell-based services. The role requires on-call participation, distributed-systems expertise, and collaboration across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance.

Own the assessment, architecture, roadmap, and hands-on improvement of a large-scale database estate centered on MariaDB. Lead reliability, performance, replication, disaster recovery, observability, provisioning, migrations, and database automation. Partner with application teams on schemas and data-store decisions, investigate complex incidents, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep MariaDB expertise, strong software engineering skills, Linux and infrastructure fundamentals, and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

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.