Product Lead (Trading)

Description

We’re building a trading product from the ground up and are looking for a Product Lead who is both an active trader and an experienced product manager.

You’ll make product decisions requiring real market intuition: understanding how traders think, what they need at execution speed, what makes a tool trustworthy, and the market ecosystem, including prop firms, brokers, data providers, and CME licensing.

This role is part of a small, founder-led team building in the trading space. Your decisions carry real weight.

What You’ll Get

• Build and launch a product from scratch while fully managing the process.
• Full ownership from idea to shipped product.
• Product-market proximity: use the product yourself as a trader.
• Collaborate with leading market brands, including prop firms and brokers.
• Work in an AI-first environment where AI is central to planning, research, design, and building.
• Work in an outcome-driven culture combining synchronous collaboration and focused asynchronous work.

What You Will Do

Product Strategy

• Contribute to and own the end-to-end product vision.
• Communicate the vision clearly to stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Transform strategy into a prioritized product roadmap.
• Prepare a billing model aligned with revenue and profitability goals.

Product Prototyping and Discovery

• Lead product ideation and prototyping and turn it into discovery sessions.
• Conduct customer development activities, including direct calls with traders and potential users.
• Run market research and competitive analysis.

Product Development

• Define and scope features for development.
• Lead the development process using Agile methodology.
• Carry out proactive risk management and troubleshooting.

UI/UX

• Create AI-driven prototypes, mockups, and wireframes.
• Collaborate with a product designer to implement current UI/UX best practices.
• Improve product UX to drive conversion and retention.

Product Analytics

• Monitor and improve product success metrics, including MRR, CAC, LTV, churn, and NPS.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis of web and product metrics using product database data to validate decisions.
• Make data-driven decisions alongside the data analytics team.

What We’re Looking For

Product Management

• 5+ years in Product Management.
• Hands-on experience shipping SaaS products in B2C and B2B contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to own and communicate end-to-end product vision.
• Experience with PDM frameworks, product analytics, and product design tools.
• Experience running customer development and market research independently.
• Experience delivering software products in US and/or EU markets.

Trading Experience

• Active trading experience in any market, including futures, stocks, crypto, forex, or similar.
• Day trading, scalping, and/or swing trading experience.

Technical Background & Tools

• Technical background with an understanding of high-level architecture and ability to work directly with engineers.
• AI fluency across research, prototyping, analysis, and decision-making.
• Ability to work with data independently using SQL or an equivalent tool for ad-hoc product analysis.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools.
• General software literacy, including technical tools, dashboards, and developer workflows.

Ways of Working

• High autonomy and ability to set direction, make decisions independently, and drive work forward.
• Strong decision-making with the ability to move quickly on imperfect information, commit, and course-correct using data.
• Structured thinking, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, set priorities, and maintain clarity.
• Data-driven approach to forming hypotheses, finding data, and updating views.
• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Would Be a Plus

• Product experience at a broker, trading platform, or fintech company.
• Experience defining and executing go-to-market strategy.
• Engineering background.
• Public speaking or content creation experience.