Product Manager - Derivatives

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.

  • Technical familiarity with APIs, particularly financial services or trading APIs, is valuable.

  • Experience with futures, prediction markets, or other listed derivatives products is a plus.

  • Experience operating within an FCM, DCM, DCO, exchange, broker-dealer, fintech, or other regulated financial institution is advantageous.

  • Familiarity with portfolio margin, cross-asset margin, institutional execution, Prime Brokerage workflows, or derivatives operations is a plus.

  • NFA Series 3 certification, or the ability to obtain it, is desirable.

  • Knowledge of prediction-market structures, event contracts, and their regulatory considerations is beneficial.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and stock options.

  • Health benefits.

  • Remote work within the applicable Americas/Brazil setup.

  • One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.

  • USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a Brex Card.

  • Opportunity to work on the development and expansion of futures and prediction-market products.

  • Cross-functional exposure to product, engineering, operations, risk, compliance, regulatory, clearing, and institutional stakeholders.

  • Meaningful ownership of products operating within a regulated derivatives environment.