Company Name: tastytrade
Role: Director of Product
Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Our Product Team manages the portfolio of features and enhancements that power tastytrade, guiding each initiative from initial concept through discovery, build, deployment, and continuous improvement. As the Director of Product, youll oversee multiple product lines and major platform components while establishing scalable delivery frameworks that drive innovation and significant business growth. Youll lead a team of product managers, develop organizational product strategy, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our retail brokerage and trading technology.
What Youll Do
- Lead strategic product portfolio: Oversee multiple product lines with direct accountability for the impact of the 1824 month strategic roadmap which youll jointly develop with our business leadership. Establish commercial frameworks that align product strategy with company financial objectives while creating new business models and revenue streams with measurable market impact.
- Drive organizational transformation: Establish scalable delivery frameworks, KPI dashboards, and governance structures for predictability and efficiency. Lead the organization through complex product transformations while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across teams. Pioneer adoption of agentaugmented product development lifecycle workflows.
- Deliver significant business outcomes: Create measurement systems that track how product initiatives impact company goals, using clear metrics and KPIs that everyone can understand. Build compelling business cases with financial projections to secure executive buyin for major investments. Make datadriven decisions about which products to prioritize, expand, or sunset based on their contribution to revenue and strategic objectives.
- Build highperforming teams: Develop future product leaders through comprehensive coaching programs and stretch assignments. Establish organizational standards for PM methods and tools while creating knowledgesharing frameworks that disseminate product expertise across the entire organization.
- Master stakeholder relationships: Communicate product vision to diverse stakeholders from engineers to Csuite executives in ways that inspire action and alignment. Oversee strategic vendor management and partnership development while establishing frameworks for portfoliolevel priority decisions across competing initiatives.
Who You Are
- Demonstrable product management experience: Proven ability to lead product organizations, make decisions grounded in commercial sensibility, and drive significant business outcomes through new business models and revenue streams.
- Deep expertise in consumerfacing fintech or an adjacent regulated industry: Experience in retail trading, brokerage operations, or financial markets technology is a significant advantagecomprehensive understanding of trading platform capabilities, market microstructure, order execution, market data, and regulatory requirements including FINRA and SEC compliance frameworks.
- Strong technical and commercial leadership: Ability to establish NFR standards across product lines, inform architecture decisions balancing innovation with business objectives, and develop sophisticated financial models with ROI projections.
- Mastery of strategic product methods: Expert in establishing measurement frameworks, OKRs/KPIs, advanced analytics, and leveraging AI and emerging technologies to create competitive advantages while maintaining operational excellence.
- Exceptional executive communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into compelling business narratives, navigate highstakes organizational discussions, and build strategic partnerships with external vendors and partners.
- Proven team builder and change agent: Track record of developing highperforming product organizations, mentoring product managers, and leading organizations through complex transformations.
- Passion for empowering individual traders: Democratizing access to financial markets through innovative trading technology and exceptional user experiences.
Benefits
- Performance Bonuses
- Stock Purchase Options
- 401(k) Plan
- 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day in the month of your birthday!)
- 10 Paid Sick Days
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness & Mental Health Programs
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Daily catered lunch when in the office
- Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
- Shuttle to/from Metra
Salary Range: $195,000 $235,000
The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications
Discretionary performance bonus: 1520% of base salary based on individual and company performance
About IGNA + tasty:
IG North America is the home to tastytrade, tasty live , tastyfx, and tastycryptoa family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by Londonbased IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a global fintech leader with 50+ years of experience.
From our headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market, our team builds awardwinning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for selfdirected investing and trading, with tasty live providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastestgrowing forex broker in the US. tastycrypto provides selfcustody digital wallets for decentralized finance.
We are a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact. Whether youre building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, youll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users.
Location: Our office is in the West Loop Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and highend bars.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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