Data Analyst, Kraken

• 3+ years of experience in data analysis and data management within the financial services industry, ideally gained in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Experience supporting marketing growth teams, with exposure to business KPIs such as NTUs (New Trading Users) and other performance marketing metrics
• Hands-on experience using dbt (data build tool) to model and organize marketing, product, or performance data for reporting and decision-making
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python libraries such as pandas, matplotlib, and plotly
• Experience setting up and managing data pipelines, with a strong understanding of data workflow orchestration
• Capable of creating intuitive dashboards and visualizations to communicate complex insights clearly
• Strong communicator who can simplify complex data ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences
• You’re passionate about investing or day trading — whether in equities or crypto — and have professional or personal exposure to trading products and solutions
• You believe wholeheartedly in the cypherpunk, libertarian values outlined in Kraken’s Tentaclements document
• A degree in a field emphasizing analytical rigor, such as software engineering, economics, or a hard science
• Based in Canada, the US, the UK, or the EU, and fluent in English

Desirable

• At Kraken, data is both a strategic asset and the foundation of trust with our users, partners, and stakeholders and the data team is the backbone of decision-making
• We’re looking for a Data Analyst, Growth to join our team remotely!
• The #1 goal of this role is to elevate decision-making by uncovering emerging trends and root causes, and by developing tools to drive insight and actions that give full visibility into business performance and growth
• Beyond technical expertise, success in this role depends on being a true business partner who combines data-driven insights with strategic thinking to shape growth initiatives, guide decision-making, and drive measurable impact across the organization
• In this role, you’ll own end-to-end data management from building and maintaining datasets and pipelines to designing dashboards and insights for the Growth team
• Additionally, you will work on experimentation infrastructure, launching an A/B testing system together with your team and contributing to other experimental projects to ensure the data team is constantly evolving and growing
• You will be, quite literally and quantitatively, defining success on a daily basis for our Growth and leadership teams
• Join us and be part of a team where data is not just an asset but our language, our tool, and our future
• Act as a trusted business advisor who influences decision-making for the growth team and deeply understands the business, both inside and out
• Own the design of dashboards, metrics, and reports, turning data into actionable insights for the growth team, cross functional partners, and the leadership team
• Dive into large, complex datasets/logs to turn your findings into scalable data models necessary to facilitate reporting, analytics and ML models
• Lead cross-functional projects with analysts, scientists, engineers, and product teams to build data pipelines using Airflow, Python, and modern ETL frameworks
• Develop and automate reporting of key performance indicators of various Kraken’s products at scale
• Develop high-quality code for pipelines and dashboards, incorporating software engineering best practices
• Deliver insights that shape growth direction through clear, data-driven storytelling

• This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline