Director, Product Management - Brokerage

Director, Product Management - Brokerage

JOIN US ON OUR MISSION TO BECOME THE #1 RETAIL TRADING PLATFORM IN THE WORLD

Welcome to the dynamic world of Ninja Trader! As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're empowering traders to take control of their financial destiny. How do we do it? We provide cutting-edge products and services that enhance the trading journey. Whether a seasoned pro or just starting out, Ninja Trader equips traders with award-winning software and brokerage services to navigate the world's leading financial markets with confidence.

Our growth story is nothing short of exhilarating. Since 2003, Ninja Trader has been dedicated to understanding and supporting traders on their journey toward trading triumph. Through those efforts, our user base has grown to over 2 million users and we have become the number one rated futures brokerage worldwide.

But we're not stopping there. We're constantly evolving, pushing boundaries, and modernizing the futures industry. Our commitment to innovation means users will always have access to dynamic tools, real-time support, and a community of like-minded traders.

So, why work at Ninja Trader? Here, you're not just part of a team; you're part of a movement. We empower employees to reach new heights in their careers by providing a dynamic culture focused on social connection, professional development, and employee recognition initiatives. Sounds too good to be true? Take it from our employees.

Join us as we redefine what's possible in trading, advocate for our customers, and continue our journey toward becoming the world's top retail-focused trading platform in the world.

What you'll do:

Ninja Trader is seeking a Director of Product Management – Brokerage to serve as the product authority and primary enabler for the regulated US futures brokerage capabilities that support our parent company, Payward, and its affiliated entities. This role sits at the intersection of regulated futures operations, financial technology, and product strategy. The team exists to help Payward's affiliated entities bring ambitious new products to market by unlocking what Ninja Trader's brokerage can do for them.

You'll own the brokerage product roadmap as it serves affiliated-entity initiatives, partnering closely with those entities to understand where they want to go and translating those objectives into compliant, executable, and technically sound product plans. You'll be the person who can sit across from a partner team, understand a novel product ambition, and map a credible path through the US futures regulatory framework and Ninja Trader's technology to make it a reality.

You'll work closely with Technology, Compliance, Legal, and senior leadership across both organizations.

In this role you will:

• Serve as the primary product interface between Payward's affiliated entities and Ninja Trader's brokerage, translating product ambitions into well-scoped, regulatorily sound, and technically executable plans
• Own a multi-quarter brokerage product roadmap focused on enabling affiliated-entity initiatives while balancing new capability development with system modernization and operational resilience
• Lead products from ambiguous, early-stage concepts to launched, compliant capabilities, often operating ahead of settled regulatory guidance and industry precedent
• Make clear, data-informed tradeoff decisions and align stakeholders across two organizations
• Serve as the go-to authority on the US futures regulated space, including FCM operations, the FCM–DCO–DCM relationship, clearing, settlement, margin, and client reporting, and understand how each constrains or enables new products
• Partner with Compliance and Legal to navigate product classification, structural, and regulatory questions where guidance is still evolving, translating those outcomes into product direction
• Maintain deep, current expertise as the regulatory and market structure landscape evolves
• Develop a deep understanding of Ninja Trader's brokerage technology, including APIs, platform capabilities, and infrastructure, to identify opportunities, required investments, and realistic implementation paths
• Co…