Director, Product Management - Brokerage
About The Position
NinjaTrader is seeking a Director of Product Management – Brokerage to serve as the product authority and primary enabler for the regulated US futures brokerage capabilities that support its parent company, Payward, and its affiliated entities. This role is at the intersection of regulated futures operations, financial technology, and product strategy. The team's purpose is to help Payward's affiliated entities bring ambitious new products to market by leveraging NinjaTrader's brokerage capabilities. The Director will own the brokerage product roadmap as it serves affiliated-entity initiatives, collaborating closely with these entities to understand their objectives and translate them into compliant, executable, and technically sound product plans. This individual will be responsible for understanding a novel product ambition, mapping a credible path through the US futures regulatory framework and NinjaTrader's technology to realize it, and working closely with Technology, Compliance, Legal, and senior leadership across both organizations.
Requirements
- Deep, demonstrated expertise in the US futures regulated space, including FCM systems and operations, clearing, settlement, margin, trade processing, and client reporting
- Proven ability to take products from 0 to 1 within a regulated financial services environment, including operating where regulatory and structural precedent is still evolving
- Technical fluency to reason about APIs, platform capabilities, and integration work, and to credibly define interfaces and capabilities with engineering teams
- Strong track record of owning complex, multi-system product roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders across Technology, Compliance, and Legal
- Excellent communication and influence skills across all levels, from individual contributors to executives and partner organizations
- Experience managing vendors that support financial or trading infrastructure
- Strong strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to use data to prioritize work, measure impact, and make tradeoff decisions
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, business, or finance-related field, or equivalent professional experience
Nice To Haves
- Experience with DCM and DCO operations
- Experience with Prime Brokerage, Futures, Market Maker Financing, or retail brokerage products
- Experience building partner-facing or platform/API products
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary product interface between Payward's affiliated entities and NinjaTrader's brokerage, translating product ambitions into well-scoped, regulatorily sound, and technically executable plans
- Own a multi-quarter brokerage product roadmap focused on enabling affiliated-entity initiatives while balancing new capability development with system modernization and operational resilience
- Lead products from ambiguous, early-stage concepts to launched, compliant capabilities, often operating ahead of settled regulatory guidance and industry precedent
- Make clear, data-informed tradeoff decisions and align stakeholders across two organizations
- Serve as the go-to authority on the US futures regulated space, including FCM operations, the FCM–DCO–DCM relationship, clearing, settlement, margin, and client reporting, and understand how each constrains or enables new products
- Partner with Compliance and Legal to navigate product classification, structural, and regulatory questions where guidance is still evolving, translating those outcomes into product direction
- Maintain deep, current expertise as the regulatory and market structure landscape evolves
- Develop a deep understanding of NinjaTrader's brokerage technology, including APIs, platform capabilities, and infrastructure, to identify opportunities, required investments, and realistic implementation paths
- Collaborate with Technology throughout the full product lifecycle, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Lead, mentor, and develop a cross-functional team focused on brokerage enablement
- Represent affiliated-entity product priorities in cross-functional leadership discussions with the CTO, CPO, and senior stakeholders
- Build a culture of accountability, partner obsession, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Annual target bonus of 15%
- 401K plan through ADP with company match up to 3.5% of employee contributions
- 23 days of annual paid time off allowance
- Seven paid holidays annually
- 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
- 1 Service Day Annually
- Paid Parental Bonding Leave
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
