Outsourcing & Third Party Risk Manager at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are seeking an Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Manager to help steer that evolution — a commercial, strategic operator who can connect regulatory compliance with business opportunity. The Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Manager will support the effective oversight of outsourced services and third party risk in support of regulatory initiatives across the organisation. The role will coordinate third-party governance, risk assessments, performance monitoring and remediation, while working closely with Operations, Risk, Group Vendor Management, Compliance, Legal and business teams to ensure outsourcing arrangements remain resilient, well controlled and aligned with regulatory expectations and business priorities.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Outsourcing &amp; Third Party Risk Management</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Oversee, advise and support all parties in the performance of all ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews of Outsourcing arrangements to include Third Party engagements</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Measure performance of outsourced service providers to agreed SLA, key performance indicators and track on a regular basis and maintain records of these outsourcing oversight activities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure accurate and timely assessment reports, trend analysis and feedback is provided to the C