Technical Product Manager

About the position

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. The Technical Product Management team supports engineering teams for DRW’s Infrastructure and Operations Organization. Our Technical Product Managers embed within numerous engineering teams, partnering with engineering team leads to support the teams from intake to planning and execution and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain stakeholder/user relationships
• Proactively seek and act upon feedback, aim to enable tighter feedback loops
• Serve as the primary contact for non-incident requests, managing intake of projects from cross-functional stakeholders
• Gather high-level requirements to set expectations based on priority and capacity at intake
• Partner with the team lead to continuously understand team capacity and assess impacts to changes in capacity
• Manage the team roadmaps, including collaborating with leadership on prioritization, estimation, and technical considerations
• Partner with interdependent teams to align and report on expectations and progress
• Maintain a broad perspective by understanding the priorities of interdependent teams, both current and upcoming, to enable early alignment and proactive awareness of production or stakeholder impact
• Be forward thinking – Partner with your team to keep work unblocked, set intermediary milestones, and able to track progress against set milestones by utilizing sprint planning
• Identify risks early, ideally before they cause impact; communicate and escalate as needed
• Manage the intake of projects from the PMO, help set and maintain delivery expectations based on priority and team capacity and assist in coordination
• Track status and communicate updates for non-PM managed projects including blockers and risks

Requirements

• 5+ years in technical product management, technical project management, or similar
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships and requirements
• Experience developing, managing and executing strategic roadmaps
• Proficiency with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira, ServiceNow Agile, or similar
• Strong communication, collaboration, and critical thinking abilities

Nice-to-haves

• Experience supporting infrastructure teams and/or infrastructure projects

Benefits

• Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
• 401k (with discretionary employer match)
• Short and long-term disability
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Health savings accounts
• Flexible spending accounts