Job Description
Summary
The team
Kraken’s Pro business spans four of the company’s most critical and ambitious areas:
- Spot Trading – the foundation of Pro and core to our trader experience
- Margin – leveraged products driving deeper liquidity and client engagement
- Derivatives – building out Futures and advanced product offerings
- Exchange & Infrastructure – scaling APIs, B2B services, and institutional connectivity
We’re building for the next generation of active traders, market makers, and institutions — people who expect performance, sophistication, and reliability from their trading platform. The
Business Operations Principal
will be a key partner to the Head of Pro, driving operational clarity, cross-functional execution, and continuous improvement across these pillars.
This is a high-leverage role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, connects dots across teams, and balances strategy with hands-on execution. You’ll work side by side with Pro leadership and colleagues across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and more — helping turn vision into action and action into measurable results.
The opportunity
- Build operating rhythms, reviews, and forums that keep the Pro org aligned and focused on priorities.
- Lead and deliver cross-functional projects that don’t fit neatly into a single team but are critical to Pro’s success.
- Support leadership in decision-making by framing issues, tracking KPIs, and surfacing gaps or risks early.
- Maintain systems for reporting, business reviews, roadmap coordination, and cross-team initiatives.
- Partner with leadership to scope and stand up new initiatives in Spot, Margin, Derivatives, or Infrastructure — from early concept through initial execution.
- Contribute to high-impact materials (exec updates, all-hands, strategic memos) that provide clarity and visibility.
- Act as the first line of intake for inbound requests, triage them effectively, and ensure accountability for follow-through.
- Identify bottlenecks in how we operate and propose improvements that help the team scale more efficiently.
Skills you should HODL
- 5–7 years in BizOps, Product Ops, Strategy, Consulting, or similar high-leverage roles with measurable impact.
- Strong project management skills — you can bring structure to ambiguity and drive initiatives from 0 → 1.
- Comfortable with data: you can interpret dashboards, KPIs, and financial/operational metrics to drive insight.
- Excellent communicator who can adapt across audiences — from execs to cross-functional ICs.
- Highly organized, detail-driven, and biased toward follow-through and execution.
- Self-starter who doesn’t wait for instructions — you create the roadmap when one doesn’t exist.
- Experience collaborating across product, engineering, compliance, legal, finance, and marketing.
- Belief in Kraken’s mission to accelerate financial freedom and inclusion through crypto.
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Operations
- Strategic Thinking
- Team Collaboration