Head of Crypto P2P Marketplace & Platform

Kraken; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking an experienced product leader to launch and scale a crypto P2P marketplace in APAC and extend it as a shared platform for multiple Payward products. You will own the vision, drive merchant onboarding, liquidity, and pricing strategies while partnering with engineering, risk, and commercial teams.

You will influence senior stakeholders, shape cross-functional product roadmaps, and ensure robust platform capabilities across matching, escrow, and settlement to support growth

Qualifications

• Experience launching and scaling a crypto P2P marketplace in APAC.
• Senior product leadership with responsibility for strategy, roadmaps and measurable commercial outcomes.
• Deep understanding of merchant operations, two-sided liquidity, pricing and incentives in P2P trading.
• Knowledge of APAC payment methods, local banking and wallet ecosystems.
• Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple products or partners.

Responsibilities

• Set the P2P vision, objectives and roadmap across markets.
• Develop merchant acquisition, onboarding, incentives and liquidity strategy with local teams.
• Define fee structures and incentives; drive revenue and margins with partners.
• Lead product development across matching, escrow, order mgmt, payment confirmation and disputes.
• Build reusable platform integrations to allow multiple Kraken products to use P2P.

Skills

Crypto product leadership

APAC market knowledge

Two-sided liquidity

Pricing incentives

Platform capabilities

Stakeholder influence

API integrations

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

API integrations

Job description

Kraken is seeking an experienced product leader to launch and scale a crypto P2P marketplace in APAC and extend it as a shared platform for multiple Payward products. You will own the vision, drive merchant onboarding, liquidity, and pricing strategies while partnering with engineering, risk, and commercial teams.

You will influence senior stakeholders, shape cross-functional product roadmaps, and ensure robust platform capabilities across matching, escrow, and settlement to support growth