Senior Director Product Management – Trading Platform & Data

The Role: 

Forge is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead our Trading Platform and Data product organizations. This role owns the vision strategy and execution across our core trading platform platform services and APIs and our data business. This product leader will be responsible for building a cohesive product strategy that powers liquidity enables partner integrations and drives data monetization across the private markets ecosystem. This leader will manage a team of product managers including senior technical product leadership for platform and APIs and will play a critical role in shaping Forge’s next-generation infrastructure for private markets. 
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in Soho NY office.

Responsibilities: 

• Own and define the end-to-end product vision strategy and roadmap across Trading Platform Platform Services/APIs and Data products 
• Deliver measurable customer and business outcomes aligned with Forge’s marketplace data and platform growth strategies 
• Lead the development of a scalable reliable trading platform that supports complex private market transactions and regulatory requirements 
• Drive the evolution of platform services and APIs to support internal product teams external partners and institutional integrations 
• Own and grow the data product business including datasets APIs derived analytics and index products 
• Define and implement monetization strategies across trading platform and data offerings 
• Establish and track KPIs across platform performance data product adoption API usage and business impact 
• Partner with engineering leadership to shape platform architecture scalability and long-term technical strategy 
• Work closely with data research operations and engineering teams to ensure high-quality data pipelines and lifecycle management 
• Collaborate with GTM teams (sales marketing partnerships) to drive product adoption commercialization and revenue growth 
• Engage directly with key customers partners and market participants to inform product strategy and validate solutions 
• Navigate regulatory compliance and market structure considerations in private markets and trading systems 
• Lead mentor and scale a high-performing team of product managers including senior technical PMs for platform and APIs 
• Drive a culture of product excellence strategic thinking and customer-centric decision making 
• Evangelize product strategy and platform vision internally and externally including executive and client-facing engagements 

Qualifications 

• 8-10 years of product management experience with significant leadership experience in fintech trading platforms or data products 
• Deep expertise in capital markets trading systems and market data products 
• Proven track record of owning and scaling complex platform products including APIs and backend systems 
• Experience building and monetizing data products including APIs datasets and analytics 
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to engage deeply with engineering on architecture APIs and system design 
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing product teams 
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations in financial markets (e.g. FINRA SEC) 
• Exceptional ability to operate in ambiguity and drive strategic decisions in evolving markets 
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills including executive-level influence 
• Experience working cross-functionally across engineering data operations legal and go-to-market teams 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in private markets secondary trading or alternative asset management 
• Experience with institutional trading systems exchanges or marketplaces 
• Familiarity with market data vendors and tools (e.g. Bloomberg FactSet) 
• Experience with API-first business models and platform ecosystems 
• MBA or advanced degree in Finance Business or a related field 

For residents of New York NY area the annual base salary range for this role is $250000 - $275000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography candidate experience and expertise bonus and other factors.

What We Do

At Forge (NYSE: FRGE) we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold humble and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation from space travel to planet-saving plant-based nutrition and more. With liquidity solutions exclusive data and insights a custody offering and a vibrant marketplace Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent accessible and seamless for companies their employees and investors. Through Forge employees can sell their private shares employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and it is building a growing network effect with defensible competitive advantages. The Forge marketplace has over 440000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21000+ transactions. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors demand from customers and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies teams and innovators in this way.

Why Work With Us

At Forge we offer extensive opportunities for growth to provide employees with endless possibilities developing careers through unique experiences. The diversity of skills experience and thought is what drives innovation within our walls.

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