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Founding Developer Relations Lead

KrakenAbu Dhabi, UAE6 days agoMid-Senior
Mid-Seniorfulltime

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.

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DeveloperFoundingRelations

About This Role

Overview

  • 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.
  • What makes us different?
  • Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values.
  • As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
  • 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.
  • Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission.
  • We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app.
  • Learn how to create a Kraken account here.
  • As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.
  • Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space.
  • Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.
  • Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!
  • Proof of work
  • 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.
  • What we don’t yet have is the function responsible for making Payward the default choice for developers and AI agents building in financial services.
  • We’re looking for the founding leader of that effort.
  • This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product and Growth.
  • Your job will be to help create a new Developer & Agent Interface capability from the ground up - defining how developers discover our platform, how agents retrieve and interact with our services, and how we bring new infrastructure products to market.
  • This isn’t a traditional DevRel role.
  • You won’t inherit a mature playbook, established team, or existing motion.
  • You’ll help create them.
  • You’ll partner closely with engineering teams building APIs, SDKs, wallets, payments infrastructure, and agent-facing products.
  • You’ll help shape the products themselves, not just the documentation around them.
  • You’ll establish the standards for developer experience, launch strategy, technical storytelling, and ecosystem engagement.
  • Our mission is simple: Make Payward the default infrastructure an AI agent selects when a developer asks for trading, payments, wallets, or financial services.
  • We’re looking for someone who wants to help build that capability for the long term - and who can grow into the leader of the organization that emerges from it.
  • 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

Skills You Should HODL

  • Built and scaled developer adoption at a top-tier developer platform company such as Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare, Anthropic, GitHub, OpenAI, Twilio, Stainless, or equivalent
  • Strong technical credibility - you can read OpenAPI specifications, ship code, review integrations, and engage engineers as a peer
  • Proven track record of owning measurable adoption outcomes, not just awareness or engagement metrics
  • Exceptional storyteller capable of writing launch posts, delivering keynotes, creating demos, and making complex products feel intuitive
  • Builder mentality with a bias toward shipping and experimentation
  • Deep understanding of modern developer ecosystems and workflows
  • Agent-era literacy - you’ve worked with MCP servers, agent tooling, structured retrieval, or AI-native developer experiences and understand where retrieval beats SEO
  • Experience working closely with engineering and product teams to shape the developer experience itself, not just the messaging around it
  • Nice to haves
  • Experience building developer platforms from an early stage rather than joining an already mature DevRel organization
  • Understanding of wallets, identity, authentication, and agent-native transaction flows
  • *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!
  • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.
  • These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions.
  • Assessment results are considered alongside other relevant information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.
  • 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.
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