Director Financial Research & Product Development
About The Position
The Financial Research and New Product Development (Fin RPD) team at CME Group serves as the technical engine for interest rate offerings, focusing on market structure, macroeconomic shifts, and product engineering. This role involves leading research efforts during a period of significant change in fixed-income markets, scaling global benchmarks like Treasury and SOFR futures and options, and ensuring they remain efficient tools for navigating a volatile policy environment. The position also involves building infrastructure for the future of the marketplace, including the launch of CME Securities Clearing for U.S. Treasuries and Repos, and expanding into credit markets with maturity-bucketed credit futures. As a Director, you will be an expert in interest rate and credit ecosystems, driving strategy for Treasury and SOFR futures and options, and leading the growth of credit futures. You will also act as a data storyteller, transforming complex market activity and options volatility into high-impact publications, visualizations, and video content, bridging product innovation and market activity to guide CME Group through record growth and high-stakes policy action. There is a critical need for a strategic leader to align research output with marketplace demands, acting as a key advisor to leadership, navigating business requirements and client needs, and optimizing intellectual capital for high-impact research and product initiatives across interest rate and credit. This role will synthesize efforts across multiple interest rate asset classes to identify and leverage cross-promotional opportunities, amplifying the reach of benchmarks and clearing services, and integrating best practices to scale operations and ensure outputs meet rigorous delivery timelines.
Requirements
- Knowledge of CME listed interest rate products, ecosystem, and product workings.
- Deep understanding of cash treasury, money markets, repo and credit market.
- Proven ability to publish research content.
- Demonstrated ability to project management across multiple timelines, deliveries, and project teams with a high level of collaboration.
- Interest and ability to work across asset classes especially Equity Indexes and Crypto markets.
- Undergraduate degrees include mathematics, finance, economics, computer science with higher level education preferred.
- Greater than 5 years of relevant work experience.
Responsibilities
- Research, design and develop risk management products for listed interest rates products business management (BLM).
- Understand and validate client needs, define product offerings and specification and product modifications to meet regulatory requirements.
- Identify and coordinate connectivity to the listed rates, OTC derivatives and OTC cash businesses.
- Develop research themes and author content to support CME Group businesses including analysis, data acquisition and visualization, submission of written internal and external research educational material.
- Coordinate with marketing, legal, sales and corporate communications to ensure consistent theme and client reach.
- Support and extend client-facing analytical tools, reports and data offerings.
- Ensure product offerings, services and modifications meet regulatory requirements and client needs.
Benefits
- Annual target bonus opportunity
- Broad-based equity program
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan
- Highly competitive education reimbursement provisions
- Paid time off
- Mental health benefit
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
