Building the Future of Crypto 

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

The Team

Kraken's Finance team operates at the intersection of crypto-native speed and institutional-grade rigor. As the business scales globally and prepares for the next chapter of its growth, Finance is being held to the same operating standard as Product, Engineering, Technology, and Marketing — a product-driven platform, not a traditional back-office function.

That means designing systems from first principles rather than legacy defaults, maintaining tight integration with product, data, risk, and operations, and delivering real-time visibility and clear ownership. Automation and AI are expected to continuously remove risk from the business, not just support it.

This is a remote-first team distributed across multiple time zones, with a bias for asynchronous communication, high agency, and work that compounds at scale.

The Opportunity

This role owns a coordinated, multi-workstream finance operations transformation — spanning people, process, and automation — with direct accountability for outcomes across the Finance function. This is a hands-on builder role, not a strategic advisory one.

OPERATING MODEL

• Own the ongoing uplift of the Product – Finance operating model, ensuring it delivers real-time visibility, clear ownership, and tight integration between Finance and the business

• Define and maintain the right KPIs and targets for each finance team, and build out the dashboards and reporting infrastructure needed to monitor progress and hold teams accountable

• Partner closely with the CFO on headcount rationalization and org optimization across Finance

AUTOMATION & EFFICIENCY

• Identify and implement automation and efficiency opportunities across TOPS, Payroll, AP, Tax, and other finance workflows — targeting step-change outcomes, not incremental improvement

• Build and own a coordinated automation and AI layer that simplifies work finance-wide — not fragmented point solutions

• Eliminate manual and inefficient work across the full financial operations stack: AP, AR, close, reporting, and controls

TECHNICAL COORDINATION

• Coordinate with internal technical teams — FinSys and Engineering — to prioritize and execute automation and systems work; drive alignment without direct line authority over those teams

• Maintain working knowledge of how money moves through Kraken’s systems — system connectivity, architecture, and data flows — sufficient to identify gaps and work credibly with engineering partners