Technical Product Manager, Trading Platform GUI

DRW • Chicago, IL

7h

About The Position

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
The Technical Product Manager will help us drive retention and accelerate the expansion and adoption of our GUI Trading Platform, a multi-process application written in web technologies interacting with Python and C++ microservices, as well as databases. The person in this role should have a technical or financial background and the ability to clearly communicate with stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have a good understanding of global market structure and electronic trading systems or demonstrate an aptitude to learn. Familiarity with research and data analysis is a requirement.

Requirements

• Must have a detail-oriented disposition and clear, concise verbal and written communication skills
• Must have experience writing business and functional requirements documents, user acceptance test plans, use cases, UI mockups, user stories, and release notes
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Possesses a foundational understanding of web and computing concepts
• Familiarity with microservice/distributed software architectures
• Comfortable using the command line, SSH
• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and an ability to work and deliver results independently

Nice To Haves

• 7+ Technical Product Management (or comparable) experience
• Knowledge of electronic trading within futures, equities, options, rates, etc.
• Experience working directly in the software development process
• A working understanding of the technologies used in web software development
• Familiarity with Atlassian products; experience with Jira
• Familiarity with using and customizing analytics products: Splunk (queries/dashboards), Grafana

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the business analysis and stakeholder engagement for a family of trading GUI software products
• Collaborate with engineering though activities such as: Cultivate a prioritized backlog Partner with engineering management on technical roadmap Work with dev team to establish timelines/ metrics Assist with strategy for managing releases including process for best practices
• Triage: investigate, analyze, and categorize incident reports; identify root causes and recommend workarounds
• Act as the voice of stakeholders in the development process via activities such as: Build usage analytics strategy and advise implementation; use to inform development decisions Function as a second-level support specialist Gather user feedback, turn insights into actions
• Act as a liaison across company, working with stakeholders to: Evangelize features, build and run demos Improve external facing documentation and usage guides
• Dotted line report to CPO for broader company programs and understanding of department goals / initiatives
• Leverage a strategic mindset to grow the user base while retaining current engagement: Review emerging technologies and build advanced use cases to move DRW/team's tech stack forward. Identify use cases for AI where applicable across domains, including triage, analytics, observability, and application support

Benefits

• DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed