Product Manager, Trading Services and Integrations

Posted:
8/28/2024, 10:54:46 AM

Location(s):
Chicago, Illinois, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage fintech company with an award-winning platform and over 1.7 million users. We are building products and services that empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, energizing and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.

Our growing Product & Design organization is seeking a technical and experienced Product Manager to support the trading services, integrations and partner ecosystem that power our customers’ trading activity.  This role will own and evolve our trading platform and ensure its availability, reliability and performance. This PM will also work with our growing list of partners who use our award-winning trading software to train futures traders in an exciting, simulated environment. As the Product Manager in this team, you’ll build and execute the roadmap for all the platform and integration aspects of this business, working closely with our internal engineering team and those of our partners.  The ideal candidate will help the organization consistently deliver customer value using their extensive experience and best practices to innovate, drive, and deliver impactful products and services that will differentiate our offerings and delight our partners. 

In this role, you will:   

  • Collaborate with our business leadership, engineering, design, compliance and product teams to deliver against the product vision and strategy for Trading Services – with a particular focus on exchange connectivity, order routing / flow, risk and market data
  • Evolve our existing trading platform with new customer, partner and business requests while keeping core trading functionality performant and stable
  • Set and execute against a roadmap that delivers outstanding value to partners and their developers  
  • Identify partner and user needs and pains point through discovery processes, interviews, data analysis  
  • Interact with partners and internal product teams daily to validate product ideas/requirements and prototypes
  • Partner with API Solutions Engineering team build clear, organized, user-centric API documentation
  • Understand operational processes and important metrics with an eye on creating efficiencies through internal product introduction or expansion
  • Write PRDs, manage backlogs, prioritize features vs tech debt 

Key Job Requirements:  

  • 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager owning / supporting a highly performant technology platform with low-latency, high availability, high reliability (ex: 10k+ transactions/requests per second)
  • Trading industry experience, especially futures and options, a major plus
  • Computer science background or equivalent technical experience  
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, taking complex or ambiguous topics and distilling them for business stakeholders and/or clients
  • Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives affecting many functions across the business, including effective influencing and prioritization 
  • Customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating needs and pain points into product value
  • Experience working in a high performing product-engineering environment, with the ability to teach best practices to your colleagues
  • Experience collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Client Services, and Operations
  • Team player mentality

Our Core Benefits Include:

  • 15+ days PTO per year
  • 7 paid holidays annually
  • 401k with Company Match
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
  • And more!

 

 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.