Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager

Location: New York or Remote

About the Organization

A high-growth fintech organization is developing next-generation electronic trading infrastructure built on a modern API-driven protocol. The platform integrates advanced quantitative models and market-structure logic to deliver:

• 24/7 liquidity
• Sub-millisecond execution
• Full transparency
• Institutional-grade reliability

The organization partners with quantitative trading firms, institutional desks, macro funds, algorithmic traders, and retail brokerages, and is backed by leading investors across global markets and technology.

About the Role

The Technical Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap, and execution for the trading platform. This role oversees product development, drives innovation, and ensures the platform delivers a high-quality trading experience for institutional and retail users.

The ideal candidate understands electronic trading, exchange frameworks, and modern market workflows. This role requires strong technical acumen and the ability to collaborate closely with engineering, quant, and risk teams.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Vision

• Define and execute the product roadmap for the trading platform.
• Monitor industry trends, market structure developments, regulatory updates, and competitor activity.
• Develop long-term strategy for liquidity, execution quality, and platform functionality.

Product Development and Execution

• Collaborate with engineering, research, and risk teams to build scalable, high-performance trading solutions.
• Lead development of execution algorithms, order-routing logic, and liquidity optimization features.
• Ensure system resilience, scalability, security, and low-latency performance.

Financial and Quantitative Expertise

• Apply knowledge of financial mathematics, market microstructure, and risk modeling.
• Build and refine analytics for execution monitoring, performance insights, and client behavior.
• Partner with quantitative teams to evaluate pricing models, risk mechanisms, and platform enhancements.
• Ensure all trading products comply with regulatory requirements (SEC, FINRA, MiFID, etc.).
• Implement risk controls, circuit breakers, and surveillance tools to maintain platform integrity.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Act as the connector between business, engineering, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Mentor product managers and analysts and support a performance-oriented environment.
• Interface with clients and institutional partners to gather feedback and refine the product roadmap.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• 8+ years in product management within electronic trading, brokerage, or exchange environments.
• Strong technical background and ability to work closely with engineers.
• Understanding of APIs, market data feeds, and low-latency infrastructure.
• Deep familiarity with order types, execution algorithms, trading workflows, and market structure.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of major industry players (Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Robinhood, eToro) and key regulatory frameworks.

Preferred

• Experience in trading, market-making, or portfolio execution roles.
• Exposure to derivatives or structured products.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, C++, Rust, or similar languages.
• Understanding of financial risk models and quantitative methods.

Why Join

• Opportunity to influence the architecture and direction of a next-generation trading platform.
• Work with a team of engineers, quants, and industry professionals.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package.