Kraken - Head of Exchange Infrastructure

• Senior product leader with experience in exchange, trading, or high-performance platforms • Experience managing and developing product managers, on a team senior enough to run without you in the room • Happy to be a player-coach. This team is independent, so you will own roadmaps and write specs yourself at times, not only review them • Proven ability to set product vision and translate it into a long-term roadmap • Strong understanding of matching engine and market data architecture, and the tradeoffs low latency forces • Experience building platforms for internal customers, with the judgment to tell a platform from a series of bespoke builds • Excellent communication skills — can influence technical and non-technical stakeholders • A passion for crypto markets, market structure, and building the next generation of infrastructure • Engineering background before moving into product, so you've built or operated high-performance systems yourself and not just specced them • Experience across both spot and derivatives venues, with the market structure differences that come with each • Time at a crypto exchange operating at comparable scale, volume and uptime expectations • Track record building platform roadmaps that interlock with adjacent product orgs rather than running in isolation • Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. • Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. • We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. • Our commitment • Our commitment • Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto. • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.