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Senior
Full Time
cryptoproduct managementseniorleadershipexchange infrastructure
Requirements
- •Senior product leader with experience in exchange, trading, or high-performance platforms
- •Experience managing and developing product managers on a senior team
- •Ability to be a player-coach, owning roadmaps and writing specs
- •Proven ability to set product vision and translate into long-term roadmap
- •Strong understanding of matching engine and market data architecture and low latency tradeoffs
- •Experience building platforms for internal customers distinguishing platform from bespoke builds
- •Excellent communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- •Passion for crypto markets, market structure, and infrastructure development
What You'll Do
- •Own the product vision and roadmap for the exchange layer including matching engine, core infrastructure, third-party custody, algo engine and API engine
- •Lead and grow a team of four to five product managers, setting the bar for product craft across the layer
- •Lead the consolidation of multiple matching engines into one, starting with US derivatives, then international derivatives, then spot
- •Build interface-agnostic platform so every product team and interface can build on the same platform
- •Define success metrics such as p99 latency, throughput, uptime, resiliency and hold teams accountable
- •Partner with engineering leaders to sequence migration without disrupting live markets
- •Partner with Risk and Credit Infrastructure to enable clients to hold one account and trade every product against it
- •Anticipate industry shifts and shape platform to stay ahead
- •Align cross-functional teams (product, engineering, risk, compliance) around exchange strategy
Nice to Have
- •Engineering background with experience building or operating high-performance systems
- •Experience across both spot and derivatives venues with market structure knowledge
- •Experience at a crypto exchange with comparable scale, volume and uptime expectations
- •Track record building platform roadmaps that interlock with adjacent product organizations
About Kraken
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that provides parachain auctions, staking, and index services.
San Francisco, CA
1000 - 5000
Finance