Product Manager

Company: tastyfx

Our Product Team is responsible for managing the portfolio of high-level projects that the business leadership team requests and prioritizes from initial discovery through economic impact assessment, scoping, build, deployment and refinement. Our Product Managers work closely with one or more product teams to shape a specific area of functionality within our broader architecture. You’ll embed with one (or more in some cases) product team to aid in the discovery, scoping, and prioritization process, as well as to help manage progress on technical debt and targeted improvements to your specific product area. Over time you’ll become a subject matter expert in your specific product area. 

What you’ll do: 

• Work with Technical Leads to break down strategic, portfolio-level initiatives into specific, discrete implementation tasks within your product area 
• Collaborate with other Product Managers and the Portfolio Team leadership to ensure strategic, portfolio-level initiatives are built correctly and delivered in a coordinated fashion against the broader technology roadmap 
• Facilitate discovery sessions for the extended product and technical leadership team, presenting background and business justification for new strategic, portfolio-level initiatives 
• Use Jira ticketing to define and manage the backlog for a product team, balancing strategic, portfolio-level initiatives with features, improvements, or tech debt within a defined product or service area 
• Define and monitor a set of metrics for quantifying success within your product area 
• Work with a Technical Lead and the Engineers on your product team to identify and prioritize isolated scope improvements and technical debt, orienting to the established metrics for your product area to provide the most value 
• Work closely with the Technical Lead and Engineers on your product team from discovery through delivery 
• Work with the business team and internal Training Manager to develop and disseminate communications and training material for new features and functionality 
• Serve as a liaison to the rest of the business about both existing functionality and design 
• Coordinate internal and external communication about new features and functionality or material modifications to existing functionality 
• Use defined success metrics to quantify the impact of isolated improvements 
• Perform limited Business Analysis functions for your product team, sourcing third party documentation, regulatory guidance, and / or general industry context to support development work 
• Work with technical leadership to shape the product, aligned to the larger strategic vision 
• Solicit feedback, suggestions, and improvement ideas from your team, as well as the larger business to improve your product 

Who you are: 

• You should have at least 2 years of experience as a Product Manager, Business Analyst, or in a role which provides significant domain knowledge in the retail brokerage industry 
• You must be able to learn quickly in areas where you don’t have deep expertise 
• Bachelor’s Degree or Product Management Certificate Required 
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills 
• Excellent English communication skills 

Team Perks:  

• Performance Bonus Opportunities 
• Stock Purchase Options  
• 401k Plan  
• Continued Education Support  
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)  
• 10 Paid Sick Days  
• Annual educational / conference stipend  
• Sustainable workday with minimal on-call responsibilities  
• Gym Membership Reimbursement  
• Commuter Benefits  
• Pet Insurance  
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs  
• Charitable Donation Matching  
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off  
• Daily catered lunch when in the office  
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages  
• In-building gym  
• Shuttle to/from Metra  
• Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars  

About Us: 

The tasty house of brands empowers individual traders differently. tastylive, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network, tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer. 

In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc. (previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years. Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience. This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.    

Our dream is simple: we want more people to find more success with a better trading experience. That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.   

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars. 

tastytrade | tastylive  | tastyfx 
1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607   

*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!