Executive Search Lead

🕒 September 2

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $127.2k - $254.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Executive

👻 Ghost score 5%

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Own executive recruiting end to end across the Payward platform, including C-level, Board, VP+, and bespoke Advisor mandates • Partner directly with Co-CEOs and the executive team on priority searches • Run board and advisory mandates with required discretion • Define how executive hiring scales as a shared service across a growing, multi-brand platform • Own external search partner strategy and manage retained-firm relationships • Ensure seamless partnership with external search firms when engaged • Report to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and operate on the talent leadership team • Maintain a dotted-line relationship with the Chief People Officer • Work directly with the Board, C-Suite, and broader Payward leadership team

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of executive recruiting experience • Demonstrable ownership of VP, C-level, and Board executive searches from mandate through close • Ability to calibrate candidates against business strategy and defend shortlists to executive audiences • Executive-level closing and negotiation strength, including pre-closing, offer construction, equity, and compensation complexity • Experience partnering with Compensation & Benefits and HR business partners • Business acumen to understand and credibly pitch a complex platform business • Proven agency and retained-firm management, including briefing, accountability, and spend control • Exceptional written and verbal English at executive register • Track record of handling executive searches discreetly • Comfort operating in ambiguity and responsiveness across all time zones • Located in the San Francisco Bay Area • In-house executive recruiting experience at a fintech, brokerage, exchange, or payments company (nice to have) • Retained executive search firm background in addition to in-house work (nice to have) • Experience building executive recruiting as a shared service across multiple entities or portfolio companies (nice to have) • Exposure to crypto or digital assets (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity program • Bonus program • Wellness allowance • Medical insurance [US Only] • Dental insurance [US Only] • Vision insurance [US Only] • 401(k) [US Only] • Global, distributed work environment • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates