CoinDesk
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ProductManager–Trading
“Product Manager – Trading at CoinDesk. Skills: Product Roadmap, Prototyping & Analysis, Technical Documentation, Stakeholder Management, Testing & Validation, Product Enablement, Model Translation. Support the definition and management of the Trading product roadmap, specifically focusing on execution logic, pricing engines, and risk parameters.. Build and run complex market use Python and SQL to create prototypes and analyze results to validate product hypotheses.”
What You'll Achieve.
ensuring our pricing, risk models and core trading engine logic are robust; launch features that define the future of TradFi, CeFi and DeFi integration; validate product hypotheses; ensuring the "math" works in practice as intended in the specs; showcasing the sophistication of the trading platform
Industry & Context.
highly analytical; bridge the gap between mathematical models and scalable production code; solving business problems; analyze results to validate product hypotheses
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics or a similar quantitative field., Skills in Python (for prototyping) and a good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and basic statistical methods., Solid understanding of option pricing models, market microstructure, and derivative trading., Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders (Legal, Marketing, etc. ) and a "can-do" attitude toward documentation
Nice to Have
Prior experience with automated market makers (AMMs), liquidity pools, or centralized crypto exchanges (CeFi)., Experience building or maintaining traditional high-frequency trading systems or matching engines., Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, and Agile methodologies., A genuine passion for how blockchain technology is transforming traditional financial services.
What You'll Do.
Support the definition and management of the Trading product roadmap
specifically focusing on execution logic
Build and run complex market use Python and SQL to create prototypes and analyze results to validate product hypotheses.
detailed functional specifications and use-cases that define how trading features should behave.
Gather requirements from internal teams (Risk
Marketing) and external partners
ensuring the product vision is understood and bought into across the firm.
Oversee the testing of new features
ensuring the "math" works in practice as intended in the specs.
Create technical demos and content to support Marketing and Sales in showcasing the sophistication of the trading platform.
Build mathematical models for new product features and refine existing act as the primary translator for developers to turn these models into high-performance code.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
working cross-functionally to launch features; Gather requirements from internal teams (Risk, Compliance, Marketing) and external partners; ensuring the product vision is understood and bought into across the firm; Create technical demos and content to support Marketing and Sales
Communication Scope
Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders (Legal, Marketing, etc. )
Process & Methodology
Product Roadmap management
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