Founding Developer Relations Lead
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About the Role
Kraken is seeking a Founding Developer Relations Lead to build a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up. This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth, focusing on making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.
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Responsibilities
- Own developer activation end to end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces
- Drive adoption metrics: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals
- Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling
- Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer ready and agent friendly
- Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure
- Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation
- Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences
- Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction
- Help build the long term DNA, processes, and culture of a world class Developer & Agent Interface organization
Requirements
- Experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, or similar role
- Strong technical background with APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling
- Ability to create technical narratives, demos, and documentation
- Experience with blockchain or crypto industry preferred
Full Job Posting
Building the Future of Crypto
- Our Krakenites are a world class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.
- Kraken is a mission focused company rooted in crypto values. For over a decade, Kraken's focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.
The team
- Payward has world class engineering, products, infrastructure, and regulatory assets.
- We're building APIs, wallets, payment capabilities, developer tooling, and agent native interfaces that can power the next generation of financial applications.
- We're looking for the founding leader of that effort.
The opportunity
- Own developer activation end to end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces.
- Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals.
- Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with.
- Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer ready and agent friendly on day one.
- Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure.
- Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform.
- Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences.
- Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction.
- Help build the long term DNA, processes, and culture of a world class Developer & Agent Interface organization.
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