Product Manager, Trading Services and Integrations - NinjaTrader
Chicago, IL
About the Job
JOIN US ON OUR MISSION TO BECOME THE #1 RETAIL TRADING PLATFORM IN THE WORLD
Welcome to the dynamic world of NinjaTrader! As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're on a mission to empower traders to take control of their financial destiny. How do we do it? We provide cutting-edge products and services that enhance the trading journey. Whether a seasoned pro or just starting out, NinjaTrader equips traders with award-winning software and brokerage services to navigate the world's leading financial markets with confidence.
Our growth story is nothing short of exhilarating. Over the last 20 years, NinjaTrader has been dedicated to understanding and supporting traders on their journey toward trading triumph. In the last 5 years alone, our user base has grown by 400% to over 2 million users and we have become the number one rated futures brokerage worldwide.
But we're not stopping there. We're constantly evolving, pushing boundaries, and modernizing the futures industry. Our commitment to innovation means users will always have access to dynamic tools, real-time support, and a community of like-minded traders.
So, why work at NinjaTrader? Here, you're not just part of a team; you're part of a movement. We empower employees to reach new heights in their careers by providing a dynamic culture focused on social connection, professional development, and employee recognition initiatives. Sounds too good to be true? Take it from our employees.
Join us as we redefine what's possible in trading, advocate for our customers, and continue our journey toward becoming the world's top retail-focused trading platform in the world.
What you'll do:
Our growing Product & Design organization is seeking a technical and experienced Product Manager to support the trading services, integrations and partner ecosystem that power our customers' trading activity. This role will own and evolve our trading platform and ensure its availability, reliability and performance. This PM will also work with our growing list of partners who use our award-winning trading software to train futures traders in an exciting, simulated environment. As the Product Manager in this team, you'll build and execute the roadmap for all the platform and integration aspects of this business, working closely with our internal engineering team and those of our partners. The ideal candidate will help the organization consistently deliver customer value using their extensive experience and best practices to innovate, drive, and deliver impactful products and services that will differentiate our offerings and delight our partners.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate with our business leadership, engineering, design, compliance and product teams to deliver against the product vision and strategy for Trading Services – with a particular focus on exchange connectivity, order routing / flow, risk and market data
- Evolve our existing trading platform with new customer, partner and business requests while keeping core trading functionality performant and stable
- Set and execute against a roadmap that delivers outstanding value to partners and their developers
- Identify partner and user needs and pains point through discovery processes, interviews, data analysis
- Interact with partners and internal product teams daily to validate product ideas/requirements and prototypes
- Partner with API Solutions Engineering team build clear, organized, user-centric API documentation
- Understand operational processes and important metrics with an eye on creating efficiencies through internal product introduction or expansion
- Write PRDs, manage backlogs, prioritize features vs tech debt
What we look for:
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager owning / supporting a highly performant mission critical technology platform with low-latency, high availability, high reliability (ex: 10k+ transactions/requests per second)
- Trading industry experience, especially futures and options, a major plus
- Computer science background or equivalent technical experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, taking complex or ambiguous topics and distilling them for business stakeholders and/or clients
- Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives affecting many functions across the business, including effective influencing and prioritization
- Customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating needs and pain points into product value
- Experience working in a high performing product-engineering environment, with the ability to teach best practices to your colleagues
- Experience collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Client Services, and Operations
- Team player mentality
Our Core Benefits Include:
- Hybrid Schedule with Extra Remote Flexibility (Totalling over 55% remote time)
- Generous PTO
- 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
- 1 Service Day Annually
- 401k with 3.5% Company Match
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Transit and Parking
- Gym Membership
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.