Kraken aims to scale its institutional-grade custody platform and integrate it with other services like staking, prime execution, and structured yield to create a unified institutional product suite. This involves delivering secure, compliant, and highly available custody infrastructure that meets the needs of top-tier institutional clients.
Requirements
- 5+ years in product management with a focus on custody, institutional infrastructure, or B2B fintech.
- Experience delivering secure, high-availability platforms for mission-critical financial services
- Strong understanding of institutional client needs - governance, compliance, and operational complexity.
- Ability to design products that support multi-user structures, granular permissions, and real-time controls
- Deep understanding of digital asset security, private key management, and operational risk.
- Understanding of MPC, HSMs, and cold/hot wallet security models
- Experience building integrated product ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Kraken Custody.
- Scale secure, compliant, and highly available custody infrastructure that meets the needs of top-tier institutional clients, including asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, and crypto-native firms
- Deliver seamless integrations with staking, prime execution, and structured yield solutions to create a unified institutional product suite.
- Design intuitive, enterprise-ready custody interfaces and workflows, supporting complex organizational structures, role-based access control, real-time balance insights, and operational controls.
- Champion reliability, security, and auditability in all product features
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure all product initiatives align with regulatory requirements across key jurisdictions.
- Engage deeply with institutional clients and prospects to identify pain points, develop solutions, and shape product direction.
Other
- Ability to align custody capabilities with adjacent services like staking, trading, and lending to create a cohesive client journey.
- Experience building products that balance UX with rigorous control frameworks
- Proven success working across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to deliver complex products.
- Effective at building consensus and driving execution at scale
- A passion for the crypto ecosystem and its unique challenges.
