Product Manager
NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage FinTech company with an award-winning platform and over 1 million users. We are building products and services which empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, comfortable and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Manager to join our growing Product team at NinjaTrader! This position will support the product practice with a focus on Back Office, FCM and Trading Operations. The ideal candidiate will help the organization consistently deliver customer value at the highest levels possible by using their extensive experience and best practices to innovate, drive, and deliver impactful products and services that will differentiate our offerings and delight our clients.
In this role, you will:
- Assist in aligning product vision with NinjaTrader's overall business strategy and long-term vision; exceeding the needs of our customers
- Turn vision into roadmaps and product reality; while effectively managing product priorities
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development
- Experience building solutions for end customers and managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
- Contribute to all parts of the product lifecycle processes, including product research, market research, planning, positioning, roadmap development, and product launches
- Be an expert in NinjaTrader's products and how customers use them including market and consumer studies and conducting A/B testing
- Understand operational processes and important metrics with an eye on creating efficiencies through internal product introduction or expansion
- Work with stakeholders across the business to identify new opportunities and help them understand how technology can better achieve their goals
- Understand NinjaTrader's current product position and keep a finger on the pulse of the competitive landscape to understand competitor value propositions and how they relate to NinjaTrader
Key Job Requirements:
- BA or MS degree in technical field or equivalent working experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, preferably in trading operations and back office
- A unique blend of business and technical understanding that allows you to manage product development from creation through go-to-market
- Customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating that into product development
- Experience creating and managing product roadmaps and working in an Agile environment and with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum
- Experience collaborating with Marketing, Sales, Client Services, and Operations
- Team player mentality
- Comfort resolving uncertainty and communicating for issue resolution
- SaaS or FinTech experience
Our Core Benefits Include:
- 15 days PTO per year
- 7 paid holidays annually
- 401k with Company Match
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
- And more!
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.
