Director, Product Management

3 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States NinjaTrader Full time

NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage fintech company with an award-winning platform and over 1.5 million users. We are building products and services that empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, energizing and fun. Please visit to learn more about our business.

Our growing Product & Design organization is seeking an experienced and technical Product Director to support and evolve our rapidly growing B2B trading services business Our B2B partners use our award-winning trading software to train futures traders in an exciting, simulated environment. These partners expect NinjaTrader to deliver its trading platform reliably and with real-time monitoring, scale for their user growth, create features that would resonate with their users, and deliver insights to help them run their business better. As the Product Director leading this team, you'll build the product vision and strategy and oversee execution of the roadmap for the platform, working closely with stakeholders from across the org. The ideal candidate will identify and champion new opportunities to move the product forward using their extensive experience and best practices to innovate, drive, and deliver impactful products and services that will differentiate our offering and delight our partners.

Drive the overall product strategy and vision for the B2B product offering in collaboration with our business leadership, engineering, design, compliance, and product teams – ensuring alignment with company goals
Drive business outcomes by optimizing and evolving our go-to-market approach ie value prop development, positioning, pricing
Identify current and potential future partner and user needs and pain points through discovery processes, interviews, data analysis
Set and execute against a roadmap that delivers outstanding value to partners
Interact with external partners and internal product teams daily to validate product ideas/requirements and prototypes
Assess and understand the competitive landscape and business dynamics of the rapidly expanding futures trading market so as to best position our product for success
Build and maintain an API portal with clear, organized, user-centric API documentation
Get your hands dirty: Write PRDs, manage backlogs, prioritize features vs tech debt alongside your team
Lead and coach a small, growing team (likely starting more as a player/coach)

10+ years of experience as a Product Manager, with 5+ in B2B
3+ years of experience in a leadership role in a B2B SaaS setting
STEM background or equivalent technical experience
Demonstrated ability to lead zero to one initiatives affecting many functions across the business, including effective influencing and prioritization
Customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating needs and pain points into product value
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, taking complex or ambiguous topics and distilling them for business stakeholders and/or clients
Experience working in a high performing product-engineering environment, with the ability to teach best practices to colleagues
Has owned multiple product lines of higher complexity and has been responsible for guiding the product strategy
Strong and empathetic communicator who can simplify (technical) concepts in a way that anyone can understand and take business direction and explain it in a way that inspires and guides their teams
Fosters a team focus on system ownership, product excellence, and timely execution.
Communicates up/down/across the organization in a measured and timely manner.
Experience building and shipping APIs and API platforms
Team player mentality

Trading (especially futures), FinTech, SaaS experience
Computer Science background


15+ days PTO per year
7 paid holidays annually
401k with Company Match
Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
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