krakencustody lead product manager role
Kraken, a global mission-focused crypto company with a team spanning over 70 countries, is on the hunt for a seasoned Lead Product Manager to take on a high-impact role in its Kraken Custody division. This role is perfect for a candidate with proven success in working across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to deliver complex products.
The Role and Its Challenges
The Lead Product Manager will be tasked with driving the evolution and scale of Kraken's institutional-grade custody platform. This involves end-to-end product ownership, leading the strategy and roadmap to secure billions in client assets, ensuring it meets evolving institutional needs.
The role requires a deep understanding of digital asset security, private key management, and operational risk. The ideal candidate should also have a strong understanding of institutional client needs, including governance, compliance, and operational complexity.
Product Differentiation Strategy
The product differentiation strategy for Kraken's Lead Product Manager role centers on building and scaling an institutional-grade, secure, compliant, and highly available custody platform tailored for top-tier institutional clients such as asset managers, hedge funds, corporates, and crypto-native firms.
Key aspects include:
- Integrated institutional product suite: Seamlessly integrating staking, yield, and prime services (execution, derivatives, financing) to create a unified, comprehensive platform that differentiates Kraken Custody by expanding beyond basic custody.
- Institutional-grade user experience: Designing intuitive, enterprise-ready interfaces supporting complex organizational workflows—including role-based access control, real-time balance insights, operational controls—catering specifically to institutional client complexities.
- Regulatory-first, compliant approach: Partnering closely with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure the product aligns with regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, supporting asset segregation, auditability, and regulatory readiness.
- Client-centric innovation: Deep engagement with institutional clients to identify pain points, rapidly iterate on solutions, and drive adoption through tight feedback loops and robust onboarding.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Working with engineering, sales, legal, compliance, risk, and design teams to deliver a trusted custody solution embedded in a broader institutional ecosystem, enhancing product robustness and comprehensive service offerings.
Nice-to-Haves
Nice-to-haves include experience with staking architecture or validator operations, familiarity with Prime Brokerage or structured yield products, and a background in securities custody, fund administration, or digital asset infrastructure.
The Company and Its Culture
Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support. As a fully remote company, Krakenites speak over 50 languages, reflecting the company's global reach.
The Lead Product Manager role involves balancing UX with rigorous control frameworks in product building, engaging with institutional clients and prospects to identify pain points, develop solutions, and shape product direction. Cross-functional collaboration with various departments including Engineering, Prime Product, Staking, Risk, Institutional Sales, Legal, Compliance, and Design is also a crucial part of the role.
Passion for the crypto ecosystem and its unique challenges, as well as familiarity with on-chain asset management, smart contract staking, yield protocols, and the evolving regulatory environment, are essential for this role.
[1] Kraken Custody Whitepaper [3] Kraken Custody Product Strategy [5] Kraken Custody Roadmap
- The Lead Product Manager at Kraken will utilize their expertise in finance, business, and technology to drive the evolution and scale of Kraken's institutional-grade custody platform, focusing on end-to-end product ownership, strategy development, and roadmap execution to secure billions in client assets and meet evolving institutional needs.
- To achieve product differentiation, the Lead Product Manager will collaborate closely with various departments like Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to design a secure, compliant, highly available, and intuitive institutional-grade platform that integrates staking, yield, and prime services, catering to top-tier institutional clients while managing operational risks and maintaining a deep understanding of regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
