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Product Manager
Technical Product Manager- Core Trading Product Manager
53% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 56% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $29.4M Venture Funding
What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?
DriveWealth is a financial technology firm pioneering embedded finance, fractional investing in US equities with a modern API-driven brokerage infrastructure. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015. DriveWealth makes it as easy to buy Starbucks stock as it is to buy a Starbucks latte.
Our partners include banking and fin-tech disruptors, RIAs, and global brands who are building investing experiences in 153 countries. By empowering our partners with solutions to embed investing into new and existing digital experiences, they turn consumers into investors. Some of our partners are Revolut, Hatch, MoneyLion, Stake, and Avenue.
As a Product Manager aligned with the Core Trading team you will be responsible for partnering with key stakeholders at the Firm, including Trading, Operations, Compliance and Technology to define and execute the product roadmap for the Core Trading team, including building out trading products and features for DriveWealths Partners and scaling the Core Trading technology stack. DriveWealth handles millions of orders per day and has developed proprietary trading technology for real time execution of dollar based/ fractional shares. We power traditional retail brokerage as well as embedded finance products, globally, by offering frictionless brokerage as a service products.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for product vision and strategy for the retail core trading team. This means being able to clearly formulate and articulate the business value to and intent(s) of underlying product(s) or product releases.
- Provide subject matter expertise to help define and translate business decisions into technology solutions.
- Partner with key stakeholders – notably, Trading, Operations, CX and Strategy and to support strategic goals and business initiatives
- Trusted partner and enabler for the technology team. Big picture and ability to answer day-to-day product questions from engineers to guide build and implementation
- Help define and prioritize the product roadmap, Conduct sprint-planning and backlog grooming for a backend engineering team responsible for multiple work streams
- Gather technical requirements, create specifications and workflow documents for product and feature release/ deployment.
- Extrapolate and document complex business logic from software. Break down projects into executable tasks with Engineering leads
- Manage communication of progress/status to internal and external stakeholders via Agile delivery methods.
- Develop tools and processes to improve team efficiency and speed
- Identify and implement ways to improve the systems scalability and functionality.
- Guide the next phase of development as the application scales to multiple services and teams
Requirements
- 3+ years working in technical product management or software engineering at a software or financial services company
- Prior experience with retail, electronic or institutional equities trading, including familiarity with the trading lifecycle and order workflow processing preferred.
- Knowledge of technical microservices architecture
- Knowledge of SQL and/or data modeling and analysis tools
- A proven track record of delivering high-quality and tested software on-time and often
- An open mind, flexibility around testing new approaches and the ability to harness failures and turn them into wins.
- Strong interest and passion for financial technology
- Previous Experience in Financial Services or Fin-tech preferred
- Experience in agile delivery methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- Degree in computer science or relevant software development experience a bonus
- Experience w/ knowledge of Java a plus
Benefits
- 401k plan
- Stock Options
- Insurance – Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Legal. HSA and FSA options.
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home
- Paid time off and holidays
- Reimbursement for continuing education and conferences
- Snacks and beverages available in the office
- Pet-friendly workplace
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Workable (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.