Head of Growth Margin Trading
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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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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About the Role
You will own growth for margin trading. You will develop acquisition strategy for high-net-worth traders, coordinate marketing and product partners, define positioning and offers, manage the funnel from lead to active trader, run growth experiments, and bring trader insights into the product roadmap.
Requirements
- Have 4+ years of experience in growth, product marketing, or high-value customer acquisition
- Have a track record of acquiring high-net-worth traders or players in crypto, trading, gaming, or gambling
- Have experience converting competitors' customers into long-term high-value users
- Be able to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Understand leveraged and margin trading
- Use funnel metrics, revenue impact, and acquisition-spend ROI
- Communicate clearly across marketing, VIP, product, and leadership
Responsibilities
- Own growth for margin trading
- Build acquisition strategy for high-net-worth traders
- Partner with the VIP team on sourcing, onboarding, and activation
- Mobilize cross-functional teams to drive growth
- Define margin-trading positioning, messaging, and offers
- Set growth targets and own the acquisition funnel
- Run and scale channel, program, and incentive experiments
- Bring trader insights to the product roadmap
