Technical Product Manager
IMC Trading · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
Marketing$200k–$225k/yrFull-time
Your Core Responsibilities
- Partner closely with traders to understand daily workflows, decision making, and trading patterns
- Work with engineering teams to design, build, and iterate on high performance GUIs
- Translate trader insights and business needs into clear product goals, priorities, and requirements
- Own initiatives end to end, from problem definition and scoping through delivery, iteration, and adoption with development teams
- Obsess over workflow efficiency, recognizing that every click, keystroke, and visual element matters
- Identify opportunities to share common patterns and tools across desks, but also decide when it makes sense to deviate
- Communicate product direction, priorities, risks, and progress clearly to trading, engineering, and related teams
- Surface dependencies and risks early, see them before they become blockers
Your Skills and Experience
- Experience owning and driving complex products that are the central focus of a user’s daily work
- Background in trading, financial markets, trading systems, or closely related domains is ideal but not required
- Strong intuition for how users interact with tools under time pressure, and how design choices affect decision making
- Enough technical depth to work effectively with engineers and reason about systems, data flows, and tradeoffs
- Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear direction and execution
- Clear and effective communicator across disciplines
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.