Business Operations & Integration Lead
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Manage integration programs across acquisitions from due diligence and transaction execution through post-close planning and delivery. 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)
Hiring Process
Candidates may be asked to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments; results are considered alongside experience and interviews.
