Director, Product Management - B2B

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. 

In this role, you will:   

• 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) 

Key Job Requirements:  

• 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 

Bonus Points for: 

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

Last updated on Aug 22, 2024