Product Manager

As a Product Manager, you will be part of a Product Team that works with both the engineers who build out retail brokerage systems and the business team that drives strategic initiatives. We care deeply about the success of our customers, building intuitive, performant retail trading applications and providing world-class customer service. Our client applications and architecture are consistently evolving as our business grows and we continue the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious.
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 and Benefits:

• Performance Bonuses
• Subsidized Engineering Training Program
• Stock Purchase Options
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• 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
• Dog-friendly office
• In-building gym
• CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
• Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars

Our Company:

The tastytrade family of companies empowers individual traders differently. Founded in 2011 as an online financial media network, tastytrade, Inc. expanded to include other companies like a brokerage firm (tastyworks in 2017), a research lab (quiet foundation in 2018), and a magazine (luckbox in 2019). In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastytrade, Inc. and assigned it to lead business in North America, including two of their own established brands – IG US (RFED) and DailyFX. 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.

The diversity of our offerings and the technology that powers them provide our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. 
We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly available, and performant systems. Our team is lean at roughly 45 members and we follow a management philosophy that values the autonomy of our engineers.

*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 anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!