Change Oversight and Licence Strategy Manager

Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work. The team Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. As the global crypto market transforms under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and many more regulatory frameworks, Kraken is building the blueprint for how a global exchange scales compliantly — while unlocking new growth across products, markets, and partnerships. We are seeking a Change Oversight and Strategy Manager to help steer that evolution — a commercial, strategic operator who can connect regulatory compliance with business opportunity. The Change Oversight and Strategy Manager will support the delivery of Kraken’s global licensing, market-entry and product expansion strategy while strengthening technology and operational governance across regulated entities. It will also provide hands-on oversight of system, infrastructure, process and data changes that may affect regulatory or operational control environments. Working across Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, Risk and Compliance, the role will coordinate change assessments, implementation readiness, testing, validation, governance reporting and remediation. The opportunity Change Oversight and Change Management Support the ongoing development, implementation, and operation of Kraken’s IT General Control (“ITGC”) oversight and technology governance framework across regulated entities and core operational environments. Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, Compliance, and operational teams to identify, assess, and manage risks arising from system, infrastructure, process, or data changes impacting regulatory or operational control environments. Support the operation and continuous enhancement of governance processes relating to: IT general controls; technology change management; operational resilience; implementation readiness; testing and validation; and post-implementation oversight.