Kraken is looking for a Data Analyst, Growth to join our data team and elevate decision-making for our Growth team. You will uncover trends and root causes while developing tools to drive insight and action for business performance and growth.
What You'll Do
- Act as a trusted business advisor who influences decision-making for the growth team and deeply understands the business.
- 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 and 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 for 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.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience in data analysis and data management within the financial services industry, ideally 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.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Deep interest in improving user experiences through better product analytics and experimentation.
- Passion for continuous learning and approaching problems with a beginner’s mindset.
- Solid understanding of the cryptocurrency space and how financial markets function.
Technical Stack
- SQL, Python
- pandas, matplotlib, plotly
- dbt (data build tool)
- Airflow, modern ETL frameworks
Team & Environment
You will be part of Kraken's data team, which is the backbone of decision-making at the company.
Work Mode
This role is globally remote, open to candidates based in Canada, the US, the UK, or the EU.
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
