Product Manager - Derivatives

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Manager - Derivatives based in United States. As Product Manager - Derivatives, you will define and drive product initiatives across futures and prediction markets within a regulated derivatives business. You’ll own product strategy and roadmap development while helping bring new capabilities from concept through launch and ongoing optimization. The role combines product management, financial markets expertise, regulatory knowledge, and close collaboration with engineering and operations. You’ll work across trading, execution, market data, clearing, settlement, margin, and risk workflows to build scalable derivatives infrastructure. You’ll engage with customers, institutional partners, exchanges, clearing organizations, and regulatory stakeholders to translate market needs into product improvements. This is a highly collaborative role in a fast-moving environment where you’ll balance regulatory requirements, commercial opportunities, technical feasibility, and operational efficiency. Your work will help expand access to listed derivatives and strengthen the infrastructure supporting futures and prediction-market products. \n Accountabilities: - Own the product portfolio for derivatives, with a primary focus on listed futures and prediction markets. - Define and execute product strategy by evaluating market opportunities, customer needs, competition, regulatory requirements, ROI, and build-versus-buy decisions across venues, clearing, and execution. - Develop and maintain the product roadmap, prioritizing FCM launch readiness, regulatory requirements, partner demand, and new futures and prediction-market capabilities. - Translate complex business, regulatory, exchange, and clearing requirements into clear product specifications and requirements for engineering teams. - Lead customer and partner discussions around derivatives products and operational issues, converting feedback and market insights into product improvements for API and trading-platform users.

- Engage with relevant regulatory bodies, exchanges, and clearing organizations to support product strategy and regulatory alignment. - Provide clear and timely product updates, performance reporting, and results to internal teams, regional partners, and institutional clients. - Improve operational efficiency across derivatives workflows, with particular attention to margin, clearing, settlement, trading risk, and related processes. - Partner with Operations, Risk, Compliance, Engineering, and other teams to integrate derivatives capabilities with broader global financial infrastructure. - Lead additional product initiatives and strategic projects as business needs evolve. Requirements: - 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Consulting, entrepreneurship, or a related discipline, preferably within financial services, fintech, trading, or derivatives. - Strong understanding of CFTC and NFA frameworks, FCM market structure, and the listed derivatives ecosystem. - Demonstrated experience or strong professional interest in futures, prediction markets, listed derivatives, trading, brokerage, or related financial infrastructure. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a comparable field. - Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, requirements definition, and end-to-end product delivery. - Ability to assess trade-offs between customer and business needs, regulatory requirements, technical feasibility, timelines, and budgets. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical, business, regulatory, and operational stakeholders. - Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment while managing ambiguity and multiple priorities.