Sr. Product Owner

TradeStation•Plantation, FL

18h•Remote

About The Position

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Owner who demonstrates strong cross-functional collaboration across business and technology stakeholder groups to deliver impactful fintech solutions to our business partners through our order execution systems. The position is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for partnering with the Product Management team to help execute product strategy within assigned domain by translating business objectives into prioritized backlogs and deliverable plans while working as a member of an Agile development team to deliver differentiated trading products of impeccable quality. Applicants must have expertise in trading /securities industry concepts, practices, procedures. Candidates are expected to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish a variety of complicated tasks and goals. You embrace a data-driven mindset and AI tools to accelerate execution and deliver quality results faster and smarter.

Requirements

Experience with real-time trading systems, order routing, and margining systems
Experience with distributed teams
Experience with trading platforms
Strong analytical, technical, verbal and written communication skills
Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks to successful completion
A team player who can work flexible hours
Innovation oriented
Deep familiarity with distributed event driven streaming architectures and real-time data processing patterns
Bachelor’s degree
5+ years in brokerage, trading, or capital markets technology, with hands-on experience defining requirements for order execution, risk management, or trading infrastructure

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of equity, futures, options trading products preferred
Experience with projects utilizing a cloud provider (such as AWS) preferred
Masters degree

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Product Management team to understand the customer and market needs
Balance competing priorities within assigned product area to meet business and delivery goals
Responsible for the day-to-day direction and output of an Agile team, including backlog management, sprint planning, and delivery tracking
Accountable for delivery KPIs including velocity, release predictability, defect rates, and time-to-market
Ensure adherence to established product management processes, Agile frameworks, and governance standards
Solve complex problems within established frameworks, using data and domain expertise to inform decisions
Use AI tools to accelerate user story definition, acceptance criteria drafting, and technical documentation, following security and governance standards
Work within a SAFe Agile development paradigm to ensure roadmap delivery alignment across program increments
Manage the product life cycle from conception through release and beyond
Own the quality bar by working with the QA team to ensure comprehensive test coverage requirements are met before release
Enjoy spending time in the market to understand the opportunities or issues, and find innovative solutions
Drive continuous improvement over rapid Iteration cycles to accelerate time to market without sacrificing quality
Optimize team productivity and minimize overhead and cost
Participate in production incident response during critical system events