Staff Product Manager - Gamified Experiences

Building the Future of Crypto 

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The team

Inky is a fast-paced, gamified consumer experience built around short-term outcomes, rapid feedback, and repeat play. It’s designed to feel more like a game than a financial tool. Trading is the underlying mechanic. Engagement is the point.

The foundations and core mechanics are already in place. This role owns getting Inky to early product-market fit through tight iteration and ruthless prioritization. In the process, you’ll help shape how Kraken builds high-frequency, gamified experiences across consumer products.

The opportunity

• Own Inky’s outcomes end-to-end, with a near-term mandate to drive usage, retention, and repeat engagement

• Design and tune core loops, incentives, and progression to maximize replayability

• Obsess over the primary interaction - speed, feedback, and emotional payoff

• Treat the product like a live game - ship, observe, tune, repeat

• Build and evolve lifecycle systems including notifications, reactivation flows, and behavioral nudges

• Use data to find drop-offs, friction, and leverage points

• Partner closely with Design, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to ship fast and learn faster

• Ruthlessly prioritize - if it doesn’t move engagement, it doesn’t ship

• Fix bugs and papercuts that break flow or trust

• Evolve mechanics to raise stakes, sharpen outcomes, and increase replayability

• Capture what works and apply it beyond Inky

Skills you should HODL

• 10+ years of product management experience, ideally in consumer, gaming, fintech, social, or crypto

• Proven track record driving product-led growth, not just shipping features

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity with real stakes and real constraints

• Strong intuition for user psychology, motivation and incentives

• Strong judgment under uncertainty, data-informed, but making calls with incomplete information

• Not precious about ideas - you test, learn, cut, and double down quickly

• Builder mindset, over consensus-seeking

Nice to haves

• Experience working on gaming products, onchain trading products, or other highly engaged consumer behavior

• Background in growth, engagement, or retention-focused roles

• Experience building for opinionated, internet-native users

• Familiarity with degen culture, social and memes

Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

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