Business Operations & Integration Lead
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
Funding
Investors
About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage integration programs across acquisitions, from due diligence and transaction execution through post-close planning and delivery. You will coordinate workstreams, translate deal theses into operational plans, track synergies and risks, align stakeholders, and improve integration frameworks.
Requirements
- Experience driving M&A integrations at a fast-paced, high-growth company
- Fluency in integration methods, synergy frameworks, and governance models
- Ability to manage complex cross-functional projects
- Ability to drive stakeholder engagement through lengthy integrations
- Clear communication across organizational levels
- Experience with IT and systems integration
- Experience with HR and people integration
Responsibilities
- Execute integration programs across multiple acquisitions
- Lead the integration lifecycle from diligence through post-close execution
- Drive workstream execution across product engineering, G&A, and value creation
- Translate deal theses into operational plans aligned to synergy targets and milestones
- Maintain synergy tracking systems and hold functional teams accountable to timelines
- Identify and extract emerging post-close synergy opportunities
- Partner with executive stakeholders across corporate development, product, engineering, finance, operations, compliance, and legal
- Maintain visibility into risks, timelines, interdependencies, and value realization
- Improve integration frameworks, templates, and operating rhythms
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)