Product Manager, Clearing Platform

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernising the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimising risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Team:

You will work with a team of talented, passionate and highly collaborative business users, product leads and engineers. Working together, we have built a platform that serves institutional clients and is at the forefront of technological innovation. Our engineers take pride in not just the value we provide our customers but the quality of our work. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry. We value creativity, innovation, strong work ethics, and we are committed to providing our team members with the support and resources they need to succeed.  

The Role:

As a Product Manager at Clear Street, you will be involved with building out product strategy and leading our efforts to build the future of market infrastructure. You will create new products that simplify and optimise  back-office and front-office processes as well as improve existing products, define and execute the product road map, and lead collaboration between engineering, design, data, and customer-facing teams

You Will:

• Partner with stakeholders to build a new self-clearing platform.
• Align product investment with commercial business objectives through deep understanding of deliverables and organizational needs
• Act as the point of contact as well as handle escalations for all product, operational and engineering
• Define business requirements, create the product road map and manage the development lifecycle to ensure successful delivery and implementation
• Manage trade-off discussions with Engineering and client group

Requirements:

• At least ten (10) years of professional experience in back office and middle office space, either in operational capacity or product management capacity.
• Extensive experience in equities self-clearing, allocations, booking models including inter-entity, external and internal reporting for middle office and back-office functions. This expertise is crucial as we are developing a new platform, making in-depth knowledge essential.
• You’re a creative, logical and strategic product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, operations, business, design and sales
• You have led programs across multiple, competing work streams while balancing the business, client and regulatory needs versus budget and time constraints
• A strong understanding of technology and how systems operate would be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of FX trade flow and booking model would be a valuable advantage.

We Offer:

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  #LI-Hybrid