Product Manager; Prime Services Job Tampa area,Florida USA,Business

Position: Product Manager (Prime Services)
Financial Services Firm in Tampa, Florida is seeking a Product Manager to assist with the growth of their Prime Services platform! Responsibilities:

Assist with the build of a Prime Services platform, a modern institutional trading, custody, clearing, financing, and technology platform designed for hedge funds, family offices, proprietary trading firms, asset managers, and other professional market participants.
Translate buyside client needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, process flows, commercial assumptions, and implementation plans for Engineering, Design, Trading, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Professional Services.
Build capabilities for low-latency execution, DMA access, smart order routing, advanced order types, FIX/API integrations, OMS/EMS connectivity, drop copies, institutional market data, and execution-only or custody-plus-execution models.
Own the product strategy and roadmap for Prime Services, including institutional onboarding, entity and fund account structures, master-sub accounts, trading workflows, account maintenance, reporting, billing, and service tools.
Define the core user experience for hedge funds, family offices, prop trading shops, asset managers, traders, operations users, and authorized principals across web, desktop, portal, file-based, FIX, and API workflows.
Partner with Risk, Trading, Operations, and Compliance to design workflows for market access controls, pre-trade risk checks, real-time margin, portfolio margin, trader limits, kill switches, short locate requirements, surveillance, and exception management.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, or Consulting
4+ years Experience building or managing product capabilities within institutional brokerage, prime brokerage, custody, clearing, trading technology, hedge fund services, fintech, or capital markets infrastructure.
Strong understanding of buyside workflows, including institutional onboarding, account structures, trading, order routing, allocations, margin, risk, settlement, stock borrow, reporting, billing, and operational support.
Direct experience with hedge fund, family office, proprietary trading, asset manager, prime brokerage, institutional execution, DVP/RVP, or clearing platform workflows.
Familiarity with institutional platforms and providers such as Interactive Brokers, Clear Street, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Pershing, DASH, Flex Trade, Bloomberg EMSX, or similar OMS/EMS, prime brokerage, and clearing ecosystems.
Ability to convert complex business, operational, regulatory, trading, and technical requirements into clear product requirements and execution plans.
Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Trading, Sales, and client-facing teams.
Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, or similar product/project management tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders, technical teams, and sophisticated institutional clients.
Knowledge of FIX, REST APIs, Web Socket feeds, OMS/EMS integrations, drop copy, average pricing, trade allocations, portfolio margin, Reg T, securities lending, hard-to-borrow locates, and real-time risk dashboards.
Understanding of regulatory, supervisory, margin, market access, trade reporting, books and records, surveillance, and client communication requirements in an institutional broker-dealer or clearing environment.