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.
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The team
Crypto markets run 24/7, volatility is structural, and liquidity can shift across venues in seconds.
Kraken operates one of the world’s most sophisticated digital asset trading platforms, supporting spot markets, margin trading, futures, options, and a rapidly growing OTC business.
We’re looking for a Market Risk Lead to help design and oversee risk frameworks that support Kraken’s trading businesses.
This role is ideal for someone with deep trading intuition and derivatives expertise. Many successful candidates come from trading desks, options market making, or derivatives risk teams at major banks or proprietary trading firms.
If you enjoy understanding how markets behave under stress and building systems that allow trading businesses to operate safely at scale, this role is for you.
The opportunity
As Senior Manager, Market Risk, you will help design the risk architecture supporting Kraken’s OTC desk, derivatives platform, and trading liquidity systems.
This role goes beyond traditional monitoring — you will work closely with traders, quants, and product teams to design risk frameworks that scale with Kraken’s trading ecosystem.
You will play a key role in ensuring Kraken can continue expanding its trading products while maintaining disciplined risk management.
Build Trading Risk Frameworks
- Design risk frameworks governing spot, derivatives, options, and OTC trading
- Define exposure limits, position controls, and escalation frameworks for trading activities
- Partner with traders to ensure risk frameworks support efficient market-making and liquidity provision
Options & Derivatives Risk
- Build analytics and controls for managing options and derivatives exposures
- Monitor risk factors including delta, gamma, vega, volatility regimes, and liquidity conditions
- Evaluate risk scenarios during periods of extreme crypto market volatility and design mitigations
Trading & Liquidity Risk
- Assess risks associated with large trading flows, OTC activity, and cross-venue liquidity
- Monitor how liquidity fragmentation across exchanges and protocols affects risk exposures
- Help design safeguards against market dislocations and liquidity shocks
Risk Analytics & Monitoring
- Build and improve market risk analytics including VaR, stress testing, and scenario analysis
- Develop dashboards and tools for monitoring trading exposures in real time
- Partner with engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure supporting Kraken’s trading platforms
Market Structure Insights
- Analyze how crypto market structure — including derivatives liquidity, funding rates, and exchange flows — affects Kraken’s risk profile
- Provide insights to trading teams and leadership during periods of market stress
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned
Skills you should HODL
- 8+ years of experience in market risk, derivatives trading, or trading desk risk
- Strong understanding of options, derivatives, and trading risk management
- Experience working closely with trading desks or market-making businesses
- Deep familiarity with risk metrics such as VaR, stress testing, and options Greeks
Nice to haves
- Former trader, structurer, or options market maker
- Python or quantitative modeling experience
- Experience working in 24/7 markets or crypto trading environments
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.
Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable 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 knowledgable about crypto!
We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Assessment results are considered alongside other relevant information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
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Compensation Range: $110.4K - $220.8K
