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About the role

  • Head of Operations scaling Payward Services’ regulated B2B2C financial infrastructure platform. Leading product operations, US licensing, compliance readiness, and regulated-entity execution.

Responsibilities

  • Own platform product operations and launch readiness for B2B2C products including KYC/KYB, lending, and unified APIs
  • Gate product go-lives against regulatory and operational requirements
  • Build scalable operations that enable products to ship quickly in regulated markets
  • Drive cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and external partners
  • Run roadmap milestones, compliance deliverables, and infrastructure programs
  • Operate day-to-day activities across US regulated entities, including licensing maintenance, operational risk, incident management, outsourcing, intra-group coordination, audit and examination readiness, and Board/ExCo/management reporting
  • Serve as functional operating lead, equivalent to a functional COO, for US regulated entities
  • Lead operational work for US state money transmitter and state lending license workstreams, including NMLS filings
  • Translate regulatory requirements into governance processes, controls, documentation, and examiner evidence
  • Support licenses through approval
  • Act as operational counterpart to regulators and examiners alongside Legal and Compliance
  • Handle information requests, supervisory queries, incident notifications, and follow-up actions
  • Represent US regulated entities in board, regulatory, and executive discussions
  • Define core metrics, improve systems, and elevate the operating model for regulated B2B products

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of experience
  • Strategy consulting background, including MBB, Big 4 strategy, or boutique experience
  • Proven operational execution experience in-house
  • Experience operating inside a scaling fintech, bank, or crypto firm in special projects, chief of staff, operations strategy, business/product operations, or operations lead roles
  • Experience running or working on a B2B or B2B2C business in technology
  • Ideally, experience supporting platform teams, shared infrastructure, APIs, or internal-client/partner models
  • Comfort working deeply with Product and Engineering on product mechanics and flows
  • Working familiarity with the US regulated financial landscape, supervision, and examination
  • Experience setting up or working with compliance programs, including KYC/KYB onboarding programs
  • Experience running complex cross-functional programs without formal authority
  • Rigorous governance and control standards with pragmatic process judgment
  • Excellent communication across regulators, boards, engineers, and commercial partners
  • Comfort with ambiguity and broad ownership
  • Nice to have: hands-on regulatory-change program experience
  • Nice to have: crypto or digital-assets experience, including crypto-native treasury and custody operations
  • Nice to have: former founder, GM, or early operations hire at a fintech or crypto startup

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates
  • Kraken product dogfooding opportunity/requirement after joining

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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