Summary

The team

Currently Kraken maintains over a dozen products available 24/7 to clients globally. These range from basic operations that any financial services company has like depositing, withdrawing, verifying identification, and other account-level operations. They also involve cool products like staking, spot trading, instant buy/sell, margin, futures, NFT marketplace.

The role of the Exchange Operations team is to be the day-to-day operators of the products and services that the Product & Engineering team have built. This for example could mean updating the parameters of the margin system in reaction to heightened expected volatility.

The team is high-energy and always ready to pounce on an issue when it is occurring with the platform. These issues may occur on a Wednesday afternoon, late Friday night, or Sunday morning – crypto never sleeps.

The opportunity

1. Manage a team with overlapping interests in system stability with the existing Operational Resilience incident response team and the exchange product day-to-day operations
2. Spot, Margin, and Derivatives markets management and “middle-office” support
3. Be accountable to implement and/or define the right processes and practices across all products
4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, compliance, finance and client support to drive innovation, automation, continuous improvement and auditability in trading operations.
5. Utilise technology built by Product & Engineering to update configurations, add new risk controls, launch/remove new markets, and in general manage the platform
6. Be relied upon in such a way that Product & Engineering will rarely need to get involved in doing adjustments to resolve client issues
7. Discover and resolve gaps in operational coverage for PDE teams
8. Demonstrate the value of operations work to Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders
9. Governance of trading policies/procedures
10. Oversee product development of internal tools (futures admin, exchange control centre)

Skills you should HODL

1. Must have 3+ years of operating similar platforms (CFD, tradfi exchanges, trading desks, other crypto exchanges, etc)
2. Technical knowledge of at least in broad terms how a tech stack is and what is happening and where
3. Data and quantitative skills are a must – SQL, python analysing medium-sized datasets
4. Ability to speak effectively with customers who may be experiencing issues with a product that you must diagnose.
5. Be a liaison between Customer Support, Product & Engineering, Operational Resilience, Compliance, Finance, and Accounting,
6. Have a strong familiarity with financial markets products and ideally for cryptocurrency as well.
7. Being able to think on your feet and make decisions in a 24/7 highly volatile environment
8. Honesty and integrity are essential when discussing system issues, testing etc – anyone who “fakes it” is risking a lot in this role. Humility, as such, as a requirement for this role.
9. An ability to delegate, but not be afraid to get your hands dirty. Know the line between being an effective manager and a micromanager.

Nice to haves

1. Knowledge of regulatory bodies, requirements and compliance standards applicable to cryptocurrency exchanges (e.g., VASP, ESMA, MiCA, MiFID II)

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Database Management
• Operations
• Python
• SQL
• Team Collaboration