Product/Program Manager

DRW • Full-time • Chicago • $125k - $175k / year • 2m ago

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

Role Summary

The Product/Program Manager will be a liaison between business and technology development teams in order to advance the technology platform in support of DRW’s business growth. This role will manage and maintain strategic business and technology roadmaps, will be actively engaged in business analysis and will provide program management oversight.

Detailed Roles and Responsibilities

Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps – document and maintain status of the centralized roadmap across business and technology teams. This includes effectively prioritizing and sequencing development efforts to achieve the highest value add for the business, at the earliest, while also providing strategic solutions to optimally meet business needs.
Partner with teams to define strategically integrated solutions – coordinate and actively participate in design discussions with business and technology development teams in order to derive and align on optimally integrated solutions.
Perform functional team assessments – document and analyze current state technology data flows in order to identify gaps that require strategic change in order to improve processes, controls and/or scalability.
Program management oversight and execution – facilitate the lifecycle of defined technology projects
- Create and maintain project plans
- Facilitate project governance meetings – i.e. weekly status meetings, etc.
- Coordinate across DRW internal teams for necessary project review, approval and documentation, e.g. vendor assessments, information security reviews, legal/contract agreements, etc.
- Support project execution through delivery, including ensuring that teams are progressing efficiently. Areas of responsibility include identification of cross team dependencies and/or blockers, clear escalation of issues requiring stakeholder decisions, identification of resource capacity constraints, supporting testing and deployment readiness across multiple technology teams, etc.
Centralized status reporting – manage the inventory of requested technical projects, including centralized status tracking and management reporting for the scope of technical projects – i.e. status, issues, risks, escalations, etc.
Consolidated resource and initiative prioritization – facilitate forums to discuss initiative scope, prioritization, status and escalations. Manage cross team initiatives, aligning dev teams as needed (e.g. requirements, design, dev, prioritization, decision-making, etc.)

Qualifications

Prior experience and business knowledge of the end to end trade lifecycle in order to facilitate discussions across teams – e.g. trade capture, reconciliations, valuations, and accounting.
Prior project management experience, and/or involvement in large cross team projects. Preferably with large/complex technology projects.
Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and responsibilities effectively.
Previous experience working in fast-paced, dynamic environments
Bachelor’s Degree, with 5-10 years of prior work experience

The annual base salary range for this position is $125,000 to $175,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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