Director, Product & GM - Embed, Payward Services

Director, Product & GM - Embed, Payward Services 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 https://www.kraken.com/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 https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/226090548-How-to-create-an-account-on-Kraken. 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 https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/security-at-kraken, crypto education https://blog.kraken.com/category/crypto-education, and world-class client support https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/support-at-kraken through our products like Kraken Pro https://pro.kraken.com/, Desktop https://www.kraken.com/desktop, Wallet https://www.kraken.com/wallet, and Kraken Futures https://www.kraken.com/features/futures. Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto! PROOF OF WORK THE TEAM Payward Services is Kraken's B2B infrastructure platform — built on 15 years of operating history — that enables companies to add digital asset trading, stablecoin payments, custody, staking, lending, and funding rails to their own products through a single integration. Rather than stitching together multiple vendors, partners build on unified infrastructure where execution, custody, compliance, risk, and settlement work in concert. Within Payward Services, Embed is the product line that powers trading experiences inside partner apps. We help fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms offer their customers digital asset trading — spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders — without building exchange infrastructure from scratch. Our partners' end users trade inside the partner's app; we provide everything underneath. We're hiring a Director, Product & GM to own the Embed product line end-to-end. Reporting to the Global Head of Payward Services, this is a product-first leadership role. You'll define what we build, shape how partners integrate it, and work directly with clients to make sure the product works in real-world deployments. You won't carry a sales quota — but the products you ship will directly drive Payward Services revenue. THE OPPORTUNITY - Own the Embed product line end-to-end, including strategy, roadmap, and execution across trading, custody (custodial + non-custodial), APIs, recurring/limit orders, xStocks, and derivatives (with the Derivatives team). - Build B2B2C trading infrastructure enabling partners (fintechs, banks, brokerages) to embed institutional-grade trading into their products. - Design systems across order management, execution, custody integration, compliance workflows, and trading UX/API patterns. - Drive partner-led product development, working directly with clients to translate requirements into scalable product decisions and unblock integrations. - Treat the product as the GTM, ensuring Embed is adopted because it integrates cleanly and solves partner problems. - Lead the full product lifecycle from discovery and scoping through build, launch, and iteration. - Manage a cross-functional pod (PM, design, engineering), setting priorities, removing blo ... (truncated, view full listing at source)