What You’ll Do
Own the futures trading experience end-to-end:
- Lead strategy and execution for the full futures product surface, including the active trader interface, ‘pairs’ trader, DOM and ladder, chart-integrated order entry, calendar spread and roll workflows, and options-on-futures entry.
- Ensure a fast, precise, and trustworthy experience for active traders across web, mobile, and desktop, while recognizing that each platform has unique constraints and highest-value use cases.
Drive measurable business outcomes:
- Develop a comprehensive product strategy for futures that translates business vision into executable plans.
- Define and track OKRs and KPIs tied to futures trading volume, active trader retention, and micro contract adoption.
- Build business cases for new product investments with clear ROI projections and competitive positioning.
Navigate complexity across markets and stakeholders:
- Own the product decisions that sit at the intersection of trading infrastructure, exchange relationships, and regulatory requirements, including margin methodology (SPAN), overnight vs. intraday requirement communication, clearing and reconciliation, and session transition UX.
- Help define what new capabilities mean for the customer experience, working closely with legal, compliance, and operations to translate regulatory milestones into product opportunities.
- Communicate confidently with executive stakeholders while translating between technical and business perspectives, and manage cross-functional dependencies with the options, equities, and core platform teams.
Grow and develop the futures customer base:
- Partner with marketing and content teams to identify opportunities to bring new traders into futures, particularly through the micro contract product lineup (/MES, /MNQ, /MBT, and others), and design the onboarding, education, and activation flows that get them to their first successful trade.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of product management experience with demonstrated success leading complex product initiatives, managing stakeholder relationships, and delivering products that drove significant business outcomes and revenue growth.
- Deep familiarity with futures markets: contract specifications, tick sizes, margin mechanics (SPAN), expiration and roll dynamics, and the difference between equity index, commodity, interest rate, and crypto futures products.
- Expertise in high-performance trading interfaces, with a strong point of view on what active futures traders need from order entry, position management, and risk display across web, mobile, and desktop.
- Experience in fintech, retail brokerage, or an adjacent regulated industry is strongly preferred; direct experience building or using futures trading platforms is a significant advantage. Familiarity with futures market structure, including clearing, execution, and the role of FCMs in the trade lifecycle, will be particularly valuable.
- Strong technical and commercial acumen: define comprehensive non-functional requirements around latency, data fidelity, and session handling, and work in lockstep with engineering while building business cases and tracking financial metrics tied to product performance.
- Mastery of advanced PM methods: expert with prototyping, A/B testing, advanced analytics, and roadmapping platforms, with experience leveraging AI and machine learning to optimize product capabilities.
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills: able to tailor messaging to diverse stakeholders from engineers to executives, with experience mentoring junior product managers and establishing scalable ways of working across teams.
- Passion for empowering individual traders and improving the futures trading experience through data-driven insights and strategic decision-making.
Company Perks + Benefits
- Performance Bonuses
- Stock Purchase Options
- Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
- 401k Plan
- Annual educational / conference stipend
- 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
- 10 Paid Sick Days
- Gym Membership Reimbursement
- Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness & Mental Health Programs
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
- Daily catered lunch when in the office
- Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
- In-building gym
- Shuttle to/from Metra