Senior Product Manager

WHO WE ARE

Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others; collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.

At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest.

When you're at Apex, you drive this change. You're part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy. Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees.

Together, we’re shaping the future of financial innovation. Embrace change. Solve big. Win together. And be G.R.E.A.T.

- grit, results, empathy, accountability, and teamwork - with Apex.

We’re proud to be recognized for the innovative work we do, the purpose-driven nature of our work, and the collaborative culture we've created. Here are just a few of the many awards we’ve recently received:

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 - Presented by Built In

2025 - Presented by US Fin Tech Awards

2024 - Presented by CNBC

Job Summary

Apex is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Client Platforms and Configuration product suite within Ascend. This is a strategic role at the heart of Ascend's growth: you will own the configuration layer that underpins every product team's ability to deliver firm-specific, market-specific, and jurisdiction-specific capabilities to our clients.

You will be responsible for the ongoing evolution of Client Configuration and provisioning, serving as the central product manager for how firms are set up, configured, and managed across the Ascend platform. You will partner with product teams across the organization to facilitate their domain-specific configuration needs while leading the design and delivery of a new firm-level configuration architecture that will power Ascend's ambitions and support increasingly complex multi-market, multi-entity, and multi-jurisdictional requirements.

This role requires a strategic thinker who can balance the operational demands of a production platform serving millions of accounts with the forward-looking architecture needed to scale Ascend significantly beyond its current scope.

• Define and own the Client Platforms and Configuration vision and multi-quarter roadmap within Ascend, balancing operational reliability, product team enablement, and platform scale.
• Lead the strategic initiative to design and deliver a firm-level configuration layer that supports international expansion, multi-jurisdiction requirements, and increasingly complex client structures.
• Prioritize initiatives using data-driven insights, client feedback, and cross-team dependencies to maximize platform scalability and onboarding efficiency.
• Build business cases with clear outcomes, investment, and ROI; align stakeholders around priorities and trade-offs.

• Serve as the central product partner for domain product teams (Trading, Investor Communications, Billing, Cash Management, Account Services, etc.), enabling them to define and manage their domain-specific configuration within a unified framework.
• Establish standards, patterns, and self-service capabilities that allow product teams to extend configuration without creating fragmentation or technical debt.
• Define and maintain the configuration data model that governs firm-level settings, product entitlements, feature flags, and domain-specific parameters.
• Facilitate cross-team alignment on configuration schema, validation rules, and dependency management.

• Define RESTful APIs and event models for…