Squad Lead/ Director of Product Management (Trading)

The Team

The Fidelity Digital Assets Product Delivery team is central to enhancing and delivering platform capabilities that serve Fidelity Digital Assets Retail and Institutional clients and platform consumers to offer Digital Asset products to their customers. Members of our team are highly dynamic, team-oriented and partner with each other, business partners and their squads. We lead by example, seek to continuously improve, deliver creative solutions that solve complex challenges and/or advance the business, and seek to increase the value we provide through our product delivery practice.

This role requires a dedicated, committed, and passionate leader who has experience with:

• Designing and managing electronic trading platforms including algorithmic trading, smart order routing and internalization / matching engine.

• Providing deep analytical expertise across various Trading squads.

• Is proficient in being able to extract and analyze data using SQL and other query languages.

• Deep Experience and interest in market structure – crypto, FX or equities.

• Passionate about execution quality – being able to define and manage to asset class appropriate execution quality standards and run back-tests to make sure constant improvements are made to the platform.

• Be a thought leader in introducing and implementing AI / ML techniques to create cutting edge trading strategies.

• Have experience and understanding of electronic trading protocols and managing latency across the platform.

• Inspire and empower squads through a shared mission and roadmap that aligns the work they do and the value they deliver to the partners they support.

• Guide the teams by serving as the voice of the client/partner towards high value, high quality execution.

• Clearly communicate impediments, progress and results against established objectives and KPIs towards successful delivery of agreed upon business, technology, and people results.

• Collaborate and coordinate with Technology – Architecture and Engineering Management and Squad Leads to build squad capacity and capability that cultivates a growth mindset.

• Make informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.

• Improve value delivery and delivery excellence from planning through implementation.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or any quantitative / analytical training necessary.

• 10+ years of combined experience designing and managing trading platforms.

• Deep understanding of Transaction Cost Analysis.

• Experience in Crypto a plus

• Exposure to AI/ML a plus

• Roadmap Management - skilled at defining and managing roadmaps that align business, data, and technology objectives by using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand, sequence and prioritize needs.

• Discovery - crafting current/future state diagrams, process flows, use cases that position prioritized areas for delivery success.

• Planning – experience planning across teams for dependency alignment and facilitating quarterly planning activities that effectively break down work towards sprint goals.

• Backlog Ownership – owns the backlog to ensure epics and stories are clear and concise with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog readiness for upcoming sprints.

• Quality Execution – attention to detail with unwavering dedication to quality that is not limited to sign off. Ensure business readiness that ultimately delivers a seamless implementation.

• Partnerships - develop positive relationships and champion a collaborative team environment.

• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams.