Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

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.

DRW is looking for an Associate Product Manager to join its Commodities trading group to manage our tools used to support research, trading and operations across the North American power and gas landscape. You will help with product needs of multiple trading desks and tooling needs of associated support teams. You will work closely with software engineers, data engineers, trading analysts & support functions to execute both strategic plans and tactical needs. Your role will focus on improving existing tools and processes, reduce operational risks and manual workflows, propose and implement strategic solutions.

What You Will Do

• Understand front-office, support and operations workflows
• Spend time with traders, analysts, engineers, structuring, risk & control managers, and operations analysts to map current workflows, SLAs, key controls and failure models.
• Identify repetitive, high-effort and/or high-risk activities that can be automated or re-designed.
• Focus on converting time-consuming manual workflows used by trading, support and operations into reliable, monitored automation and streamlined processes.
• Work with operations SMEs to discover pain points and operational risks to quantify value and deliver efficiencies in partnership with software and data engineers.
• Report to a Product Manager and act as the day-to-day owner for small to medium initiatives.
• Become an expert in trading and research workflows and identify ways to streamline and enhance those workflows to build best in class research and trading tools.
• Work day-to-day with Data Engineers & Software Engineers to manage live projects, identify roadblocks & risks, and ensure the team can operate efficiently.
• Liaise across DRW infrastructure groups such as our procurement, central engineering and data, database administration & cloud computing teams to communicate about our initiatives and ensure we have support and capacity from those teams to execute effectively.

What You Bring To The Team

• Experience as a product/project manager in a technical role, or trade analyst role, or technical business analyst role.
• Technical fluency and familiarity with common technology tools and solutions like Python, SQL databases, cloud computing, and REST APIs.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with cross-functional teams and small sets of stakeholders.
• Experience with agile software development projects and fast-paced, iterative delivery.
• A passion for planning, organization and skills using technical documentation and planning tools.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design tools.

Nice To Have

• Experience working in a commodity trading house or hedge fund highly preferred.
• Prior exposure to North American power and gas concepts and domains.
• Awareness of cloud computing and large-scale data warehouse implementation.
• Hands-on software development experience through personal projects or open-source contributions.

This role is a hands-on opportunity to shape the tools powering DRW's growing NAPG business front to back, from research and trading to operations. If you're after fast-paced learning, ownership of high-impact projects, and the opportunity to build tools that deliver measurable value and accelerate your career, this is an exceptional place to make it happen.