Job Title: VP, Product Manager JPY Rates
Location: Tokyo
Manager: Managing Director, Head of Japan
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Company Description
Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading for rates, credit, equities, and money markets. As financial markets become increasingly interconnected, our technology enables efficient, multi-asset trading on a global scale. We serve more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.
Creative collaboration and sharp client focus have helped fuel our organic growth. We facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.2 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $2.5 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2025.
Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues – and 2024 was our 25th consecutive year of record revenues.
Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2024 by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies (2024) and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For.
Mission: Move first and never stop. Collaborate with clients to create and build solutions that drive efficiency, connectivity, and transparency in electronic trading.
Role Description
We are currently seeking applicants for a Mid-level Product Manager position at our Tokyo office. The right individual will have strong product and market experience and be able to drive our JPY Rates business locally. The successful candidate will have excellent relationships with key members of relevant trading and sales desks, along with an in-depth understanding of clients in the sector.
Job Responsibilities:
Drive and develop strategic initiatives for the business in terms of functionality, protocol, market structure, pricing and overall market operations.
Work with internal teams to develop and maintain an active network of key stakeholders, leveraging relationships to improve business insight and product offerings.
Communicate effectively with internal groups to drive consensus on business direction, seek input and share knowledge to ensure a cohesive sales and product development strategy.
Communicate effectively with client groups and external key stakeholders; educate dealer/clients through product demonstrations and incorporate feedback into product roadmap.
Cement Tradeweb’ s position as a market leader within the JPY Rates business, keeping up to date with market developments and competitor intelligence to maintain competitive advantage.
Thoroughly understand how to operate Tradeweb’s JPY Rates platform and develop and implement a product / platform roadmap by working with internal and external stakeholders
This individual is expected to use their market expertise to contribute to wider strategic decision making for Tradeweb’s international business.
Required Qualifications:
Prior P+L responsibility, successful track record; results focused
Prior product experience focused on JGBs and/or JPYIRS
6+ years of experience in the finance industry
Thorough understanding of electronic trading/e-commerce
Ability to drive and execute a product development strategy
Native level Japanese, business level English
Class-1 JSDA Sales Representative Qualification
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Experience with Tableau and excellent Excel skills are a plus
Team-player; effective communicator
Skills Required
- Prior P&L responsibility and a successful results-focused track record
- Prior product experience focused on JGBs and/or JPY IRS
- 6+ years of experience in the finance industry
- Thorough understanding of electronic trading and e-commerce
- Ability to drive and execute a product development strategy
- Native-level Japanese language proficiency
- Business-level English language proficiency
- Class-1 JSDA Sales Representative Qualification
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience with Tableau
- Excellent Excel skills
- Team-player and effective communicator
Tradeweb Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tradeweb and has not been reviewed or approved by Tradeweb.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Feedback suggests pay is generally considered above average for role and market, particularly in specialized finance/tech positions. Employer-posted US salary bands for certain roles indicate healthy total compensation potential.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous vacation/PTO is frequently highlighted as a standout element. Flexibility in some roles and regions further supports time-off usability.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and financial assistance for fertility, adoption and surrogacy are emphasized in company materials. These family-building supports are described as robust for the sector.
Tradeweb Insights
What We Do
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters.
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