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Build and scale US finance and investing creator and affiliate partnerships to drive funded accounts and trading volume. The role owns partner acquisition, commercial negotiations, CPA and revenue-share structures, tracking, attribution, payouts, compliance coordination, campaign execution, and performance optimization. Success is measured through trading volume, funded accounts, retention, CAC, revenue, and acquisition outcomes. The role also collaborates with Growth, Marketing, Product, Legal, Compliance, and regional business development teams.

Own the strategy, design, prototyping, launch, and optimization of social investing and trading experiences. Define user journeys, interaction details, product scope, and success metrics; conduct usability research; analyze funnel, cohort, and experiment data; collaborate with design, engineering, and data science; and improve user participation, trust, retention, and engagement.

Develops concept-led creative briefs and original content for paid, organic, and social channels. Identifies cultural trends, market news, audience insights, competitor activity, and performance data to generate ideas that ship quickly. Partners with Product Marketing, Performance Marketing, creatives, designers, and compliance to execute work across platforms. Creates content independently, coaches stronger briefing, adapts ideas to platform requirements, and uses performance results and social listening to improve creative testing.

Own the vision and roadmap for Payward’s payments platform, including its backend, APIs, SDKs, hosted pages, and embedded components. Partner with engineering, banking, partnerships, compliance, risk, and legal teams to prioritize capabilities, integrate payment rails, support internal clients, and improve adoption and payment performance. Define platform metrics, manage stakeholder trade-offs, and enable clients to launch payment products efficiently across jurisdictions.

Own growth for Kraken Pro margin trading, focusing on acquiring and activating high-net-worth traders. Develop positioning, messaging, offers, acquisition strategies, and funnel targets; lead cross-functional growth efforts across marketing, VIP, creative, and product teams. Run experiments, measure revenue and ROI, convert users from competitors, and provide trader insights to inform the product roadmap.

Lead global external communications for Payward and Kraken’s professional trading, institutional, and derivatives products. Develop integrated communications strategies, thought leadership, messaging, media materials, executive positioning, and spokesperson programs. Build relationships with institutional stakeholders, trading desks, market data providers, agencies, and media. Apply social-first approaches to reach professional trading audiences while mentoring and scaling communications teams in a fast-paced crypto environment.

Own the investigation-platform roadmap for Financial Crime Operations, covering alert ingestion, enrichment, grouping, suppression, case management, investigator workflows, auditability, and evidence retention. Partner with Compliance and Engineering to define requirements, acceptance criteria, controls, and delivery priorities. Improve operational workflows, support regulated AI and automation, ensure data lineage and explainability, and communicate delivery status to stakeholders and auditors.

Own regulatory analytics and reporting by building audit-ready datasets, dashboards, data models, pipelines, governance controls, and compliance automations. Analyze complex financial and compliance data, support audits and risk assessments, monitor data quality, and translate regulatory requirements into reliable reporting solutions using Python, SQL, dbt, and Airflow. Partner with engineering, analysts, compliance teams, and leadership to deliver actionable insights and improve regulatory processes.

Own Kraken Pro’s global onboarding experience from first landing through first trade. Analyze onboarding funnels, identify friction and drop-off points, improve UX, build customer trust, and accelerate activation. Partner with Design, Data, Engineering, and Marketing to ship improvements. Use AI to analyze data, predict churn, personalize onboarding, and improve messaging.

Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO office in a Co-CEO model: manage complex calendars, coordinate domestic and international travel (commercial and private aviation), prepare briefing materials, oversee budgets/expenses, track projects and events, and liaise with stakeholders to streamline executive operations.