Overview

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.  Founded in 2011 and with over 4 million clients, Kraken is one of the world’s largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we’re growing faster than ever. Our range of successful products are playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets.  We attract people who constantly push themselves to think differently and chart exciting new paths in a rapidly growing industry. Kraken is a diverse group of dreamers and doers who see value in being radically transparent. Let’s change the way the world thinks about money! Join the revolution!

About the Role:

The Business Operations & Strategy team works cross-functionally across the company, focusing on high-impact strategic projects and analyses. The Strategy team’s goal is to inform leadership on where the business should be heading.

Reporting to the Head of Business Operations & Strategy, as Director of Strategy, you will be responsible for driving Kraken’s strategy by exploring new growth initiatives, executing on critical projects, and  generating actionable insights to support leadership in making key decisions. You should be ambitious and excited by the challenge of solving tough, often ambiguous, problems. You should be able to independently manage projects end to end with limited support and work cross-functionally to get to a recommendation and support execution on it. You will be responsible for making well-informed recommendations on the questions we face by generating insights from data analysis. The crypto industry is a rapidly changing environment that often lacks traditional research infrastructure, which means you will need to help us formulate conclusions through other creative means. You will need to communicate your findings and recommendations verbally and in concise, actionable reports.

You will personally own a piece of Kraken’s strategy, for example: product strategy, client strategy, regulatory strategy, geo-focused go to market strategies, etc. Which area you focus on will depend on your own interests and capabilities.

Duties

  • Own strategy projects from start to execution
  • Help to chart the strategic direction of the business and articulate strategic priorities and project-based recommendations for Kraken’s leadership team
  • Develop and execute strategic analyses to support strategy decision-making, and to proactively identify new growth opportunities
  • Analyze and understand all dimensions of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and develop perspectives on relationships, opportunities, and risks
  • Conduct opportunity analyses to support prioritization of strategic initiatives across all key areas of the business, including product, operations, business development, corporate development, marketing, etc.
  • Collaborate with Head of BizOps & Strategy and function leaders across the company to identify and attack business opportunities
  • Consistently uncover first-run opportunities and trends in order to keep Kraken at the forefront of the Cryptocurrency Industry

Requirements

  • In depth knowledge of our industry and complementary and competing companies
  • 10+ years of full-time work experience
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Significant experience buying/selling/trading bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies and associated products
  • Able to consistently produce extremely high quality output with little oversight while owning projects end to end
  • Strong leadership capabilities, able to manage a team of analysts or associates
  • Ability to establish deep working relationships across all levels of the company, and to work collaboratively and independently across various functional areas
  • Excellent strategic and analytics skills, particularly in regards to complex and multi-dimensional problems
  • Effective at communicating complex topics and influencing and convincing others verbally and via reports
  • Creativity, adaptability, tenacity, a sense of urgency and hands-on, roll-up your sleeves work ethic
  • Any one of the following backgrounds: founding a company, strategy consulting, trading, private equity, investment banking, venture capital, or strategy roles in the financial services or technology industries
  • Advanced Excel modeling skills
  • Comfortable with SQL or a serious commitment to learn it
  • Trading experience, capital or financial markets experience a major plus
  • Active Kraken client familiar with the product a nice to have

We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique backgrounds and experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives.