Product Manager (Trade Execution)

| Portland, OR | Hybrid
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Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and WeBull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

  • 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards
  • 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company
  • 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards


Apex Clearing is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling Fintech standouts like Stash, Robinhood and Betterment. We've got an amazing track record of success and fostering ongoing innovation. Our Product Managers stand at the leading edge of this disruption, and are responsible for guiding new products at Apex.
Apex's Product Managers combine financial industry research and knowledge with our technical expertise to develop leading product strategies. An example of this would be performing market analysis to identify a product gap, then working with SMEs and engineering to deliver a seamless solution to our customers. If your personality thrives off of the energy of an enthusiastic collaborative team and you love to learn and problem solve, we want to hear from you.
Your work will have an immediate impact. You'll be able to see your direct impact on our tech department and with our clients.
We're looking for someone who:

  • Is passionate. You have a genuine passion for technology. You love using technology differently to maximize opportunity and impact for customers and you have a way of bringing out that same fire in the people you work with.
  • Is a leader. You enjoy building and managing a team of talented product managers, and inspiring them towards a broad product vision.
  • Is collaborative. You're excited to work with fellow engineers and big thinkers. You know how to collaborate not only within the department, but also across the organization.
  • Is a systemic thinker. Our team has to apply decisions holistically, making sure to look at new patterns in context to the larger system of the product, as well as ensuring we support experiences for individual features.


What you'll do all day:

  • Define and Align Apex product strategy and vision. Apex's edge is its technology products. As a Product Manager, you'll be responsible to managing your team's roadmap and ensuring strong alignment to Apex Clearing strategic goals, as well as managing consensus around the organization.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership. At Apex, the product team is tightly aligned to engineering. You will develop and execute your roadmaps in partnership with committed engineering teams, and you will partner with peer leaders to planning to ensure success.
  • Coordinate and optimize your team. You will regularly step back and look at the bigger picture to optimize processes and improve team performance. An important part of the job is also to unblock and resolve any impediments on forward progress.
  • Make Progress and impact. You help ensure we keep making decisions and move forward. This means being solutions oriented and prioritizing progress over perfection when it's the right call.


A few reasons why you might love us:

  • We're a leader in the space. Apex is recognized for disrupting the financial services industry, enabling fintech standouts like Stash, Robinhood and Betterment. We've got an amazing track record of success and we foster ongoing innovation. So you get all the benefits of a proven, growing company, while enjoying a very entrepreneurial culture
  • We see tech differently. You'll work with people who are leaders in the tech industry. We are passionate engineers dedicated to finding new and different ways to use technology to solve our customers' problems.


Responsibilities:
Define, own and deliver the next generation of Apex Clearing's Trading Technology stack and tools to support Apex Clearing execution capabilities and value proposition to clients and prospects.

  • Drive prioritization and requirements definition for strategic initiatives and product priorities to deliver key business outcomes.
  • Oversees multiple product management processes, establishes priorities, and coordinates with teams to create schedules throughout the product life cycle.
  • Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders and clients
  • Collate detailed requirements and define User Stories in collaboration with internal and external customers.
  • Work with development team to deliver against these in an Agile context and to ratify proposed technical solutions, including testing new functionality
  • Prioritize requests to drive growth and maximize profitability
  • Work collaboratively with various internal and external teams to resolve dependencies..
  • Interact with clients to validate demand and verify the accuracy of the planned workflows
  • Promote adoption of the completed product and provide training tools/documentation to drive successful use
  • Understand and partner with trading tech vendor relationships.
  • Constantly collaborates with other departments to build trust and understanding.
  • Support Sales/Relationship Management in customer meetings and calls as a subject matter expert
  • Position requires 30%+ time for travel. (We're a distributed company.)


The skills you'll need to succeed:

  • 6+ years of market expertise (ideally some in product management) with demonstrable knowledge of trading workflows, market structure and networking standards
  • Experience with trading and brokerage compliance regimes, including Market Connectivity, Risk Management and Regulatory Requirements such as Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting
  • Basic understanding of post trade processes including, settlement operations and trade reporting.
  • Demonstrated success in leading product development teams through complex enterprise initiatives; SaaS / Cloud Architecture, API platform, Legacy app consolidation, etc.
    B2B experience a plus.
  • Understanding of FIX protocol and general OMS workflows understanding of REST API development a plus
  • Familiarity with Agile practices, with a strong preference for incremental delivery.
  • You are organized and are comfortable overseeing multiple work streams, ensuring that your team can stay focused on enabling great experiences.
  • Strong ability to listen. While being Customer-centric, you elicit non-obvious customer needs, and synthesize research to gain a deep understanding and narrow definition of a problem
  • Have the ability to multi-task, be proactive and demonstrate ownership /initiative
  • Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross functional teams and third parties
  • Experience presenting execution capabilities to heads of trading and senior leaders.
  • Possess excellent communication and writing skills.
  • Comfortable using collaboration tools such as Slack, JIRA, Confluence, etc.


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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • People Operations
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    • ReactLibraries
    • DockerFrameworks
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An Insider's view of Apex Fintech Solutions

What are some things you learned at the company?

Trust in the power of failure; don’t fear it. Failure at some point is inevitable and you cannot succeed if you never take the chance! There is a lesson to be learned in each failure, and it only makes you stronger.

Colleen

Director, Business Development

What are Apex Fintech Solutions Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Apex's 401(k) retirement plan match 50% of an employee's contributions up to the first 6% of their eligible compensation.
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications

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