As a Product Lead for Equity and Bond Trading Technology, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering technology capabilities that support trading workflows. You will partner closely with business, and engineering teams to translate strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps, manage day‑to‑day execution, and ensure high‑quality delivery of key platform enhancements.
You will be accountable for understanding trading business goals and plans, coordinating cross-team dependencies, supporting modernization initiatives and driving continuous improvement for the trading technology platforms. This role requires strong analytical skills, familiarity with trading workflows, and the ability to influence and collaborate across diverse stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Product Execution & Delivery
• Lead the execution of the product roadmap for one of the trading engineering teams, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Translate business requirements into clear feature definitions, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Manage backlog prioritization, planning, and day‑to‑day product team activities to support predictable, high‑quality delivery.
• Monitor delivery progress, resolve blockers, and ensure timely implementation of enhancements and fixes.
Stakeholder Partnership
• Build strong relationships with traders, operations, and technology partners to gather feedback and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Communicate status, risks, and dependencies to product leadership and business stakeholders.
• Assist in preparing materials for senior leadership updates, roadmap reviews, and governance forums.
Domain Expertise & Analysis
•Develop a deep understanding of trading system broker interaction, Financial Interaction eXchange ( FIX) protocol and features, regulatory requirements, and system capabilities for execution management products
• Conduct data-driven analysis to identify optimization opportunities, improve user experience, and support scalability.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
• Industry Experience: 5–7+ years in financial services or technology, with exposure to trading systems, order management platforms, execution management systems or investment workflows.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; relevant certifications or advanced coursework preferred.
• Product Management Skills: Demonstrated experience in feature definition, requirements gathering, backlog management, and agile delivery.
• Technical & Analytical Skills: Ability to understand complex systems, perform analysis, and translate business problems into technology solutions.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with business and technology partners.
• Execution Excellence: Proven ability to deliver high‑quality work in a fast‑paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Curiosity, adaptability, and drive to identify innovative solutions.
The Team
Our Equity Technology organization is dedicated to empowering investment professionals with world-class tools and platforms that enable exceptional performance. We partner closely with one of the largest buy-side trading desks globally, delivering innovative solutions through deep collaboration between business and technology. Together, we strive to deliver superior outcomes for our customers and maintain our position as an industry leader.
Category:Product ManagementSkills Required
- 5-7+ years in financial services or technology with exposure to trading systems or investment workflows
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with order management platforms (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS)
- Familiarity with FIX protocol, trading system broker interaction, and regulatory requirements
- Product management experience: feature definition, requirements gathering, backlog management, agile delivery
- Technical and analytical ability to understand complex systems and translate business problems into technical solutions
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with traders, operations, and technology partners
- Relevant certifications or advanced coursework
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
- Curiosity, adaptability, and problem-solving mindset
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
Fidelity Investments Insights
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
