Building the Future of Open FinancePayward - 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.
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The teamFounded 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 Head of Fraud, Payments & Banking, you'll own the strategy, governance, and day-to-day execution of Kraken's payments and banking fraud prevention programs, from front-line detection and analyst operations through policy design and executive reporting.
This role carries a strong mandate to bring a consistent global coverage lens across all markets — ensuring fraud controls, payments oversight, and banking risk programs meet the highest regulatory bar across every jurisdiction we operate in.
The opportunityOwn the end-to-end payments and banking fraud prevention strategy across all Kraken products, setting the vision, roadmap, and OKRs in collaboration with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, and LegalBuild, lead, and mentor a multi-tiered fraud organization — analysts, investigators, and managers — establishing career progression frameworks with clear advancement criteriaWork closely with the Executive Team and regulators to stay ahead of emerging fraud trends, techniques, and technologies across the payments and banking industry, directing in-depth analysis to proactively identify and close vulnerabilitiesMonitor payment trends and regulatory shifts, identifying opportunities to optimize approval/decline rates and re.