Member of Product, Trading

Technical Skills:

• Apply your practical experience working with Traders, or your own experience as a Trader, to develop and implement new financial products tailored to market demands.
• Possesses expert proficiency in both electronic and voice trading, which informs and influences technology improvements modeled after the more established Traditional Finance market structure.
• Own the detailed prioritization of your product’s roadmap, balancing new feature development and technical debt.
• Demonstrate deep strategic thinking in shaping the product roadmap, considering market trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs to drive long-term product success.
• Deliver complex, cross-functional projects with multiple dependencies, demonstrating strong product management skills and ability to drive swift execution while maintaining quality.
• Drive comprehensive go-to-market strategy and execution, including defining success metrics, tracking key performance indicators, and iterating based on data-driven insights.
• Work closely with your engineering and design counterparts to drive product development processes and planning.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Maintain a pulse on trading market dynamics and client sentiment, providing critical perspectives to internal research that will shape product enhancements and drive increased engagement among trading clients.
• Define and deliver product work flows and solutions that maximize automation in trade execution, hedging and risk management freeing up trader capacity for complex trades, project work, and client engagement.
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across the organization
• Exercise independent decision-making and take full ownership of product strategy and execution
• Contribute strategic insights that significantly impact company direction and product roadmap
• Demonstrate product leadership that elevates team performance and effectiveness

Organizational Knowledge:

• Develop deep understanding of Anchorage's business model, organizational structure, and strategic priorities
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across departments to ensure effective collaboration
• Navigate and improve organizational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Contribute to organizational strategy through product expertise and market insights
• Drive company objectives through strategic product decisions and initiatives

Communication and Influence:

• Act as a strong advocate for the Trading product needs and priorities in cross-functional discussions, ensuring their perspective is clearly understood and considered in product strategy and decision-making.
• Effectively influence and motivate others through respectful engagement, aligning teams with broader organizational goals
• Enable cross-functional collaboration through clear, consistent communication and strategic influence on decision-making at every level of the organization.
• Act as a thoughtful knowledge partner to senior leadership, helping improve organizational dynamics through empathetic understanding

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Minimum 5 years of proven product management experience within institutional trading environments, encompassing either cryptocurrency or traditional asset classes. Alternatively, a minimum of 5 years of experience as an OTC trader with a strong history of collaborative product development with engineering teams will be considered.
• Your empathy and adaptability not only complement others’ working styles but also embody our culture of curiosity, creativity, and shared understanding
• Experience in driving and managing complex projects across multiple teams, demonstrating exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills.
• You are deeply invested in optimizing the end-user experience and leveraging it to create business value.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, adept at conveying complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including both internal teams and external stakeholders.
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You are knowledgeable about crypto, you use self-custody wallets actively, and know a bit too much about defi!
• You build 0 to 1 products for financial institutions either as a PM or a developer.