[Remote] Senior Manager, Financial Risk (Crypto & Treasury)

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, seeking to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. The Senior Manager, Financial Risk will design and build systems to protect Kraken’s balance sheet and ecosystem while shaping risk frameworks for new product launches.


Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve Kraken’s financial risk frameworks covering counterparty risk, treasury risk, payment rails, and crypto market structure
  • Define exposure methodologies and risk limits for exchanges, custodians, banks, liquidity providers, and DeFi protocols
  • Design governance processes that enable safe scaling of Kraken’s financial ecosystem
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to evaluate and shape new products before launch
  • Identify financial risks across margin, derivatives, staking, DeFi integrations, lending, and payments
  • Help design risk controls, collateral frameworks, and guardrails that enable safe product innovation
  • Build scenario frameworks to model extreme crypto market conditions such as:
  • Stablecoin depegs
  • Exchange failures
  • Liquidity crises
  • Large market drawdowns
  • Quantify firmwide impacts on liquidity, collateral, and counterparty exposures
  • Evaluate financial risks across Kraken’s external ecosystem including liquidity providers, market makers, banks, custodians, and DeFi protocols
  • Develop exposure limits and monitoring frameworks to prevent concentration risks
  • Design onboarding frameworks for new counterparties and venues
  • Partner with Treasury to assess risks related to firm investments, liquidity management, and balance sheet exposures
  • Design frameworks for managing crypto and fiat liquidity across jurisdictions and market conditions
  • Help design tools and data systems used to measure and visualize financial risk across Kraken
  • Collaborate with data and engineering teams to build scalable risk analytics infrastructure
  • Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned

Skills

  • 7+ years of experience in financial risk, treasury risk, credit risk, or product risk
  • Experience at a major bank, trading firm, asset manager, fintech, or crypto company
  • Strong understanding of financial markets, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk
  • Interest in crypto market structure, stablecoins, and DeFi ecosystems
  • Ability to build risk frameworks in fast-moving environments
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with on-chain analytics or blockchain data
  • Python or data analysis experience

Company Overview

  • Kraken is a global cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy, sell, and trade digital assets securely. It was founded in 1911, and is headquartered in Remote First, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.kraken.com/.

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