Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Taiwan, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Develop the product discipline and operational framework for the organization.

• Establish processes for problem identification, requirement gathering, specification, trade-off analysis, adoption assessment, and user feedback collection.

• Manage the roadmap for internal trading and research systems in collaboration with the CIO, engineering, trading, and research leadership.

• Balance the immediate needs of practitioners with foundational platform aspects such as data quality, provenance, tooling reliability, and scalability.

• Collaborate directly with traders and researchers to gain insights into workflows, investigations, datasets, decisions, and challenges.

• Convert unclear practitioner needs and workflows into product opportunities, precise requirements, and actionable decisions.

• Draft product requirements for internal systems, workflows, data products, analytics, and decision-support tools.

• Ensure that systems embody trust, explainability, data lineage, source transparency, explainable calculations, and human-in-the-loop decision-making.

• Collaborate with engineering to identify feasible, scalable solutions and highlight technical trade-offs early in the process.

• Prioritize tasks based on their impact on trading, research, operations, or risk.

• Define success metrics such as accelerated research cycles, enhanced data quality, decreased manual tasks, improved decision confidence, risk mitigation, adoption rates, or quantifiable PnL contributions.

• Advocate for foundational data quality, lineage, reliability, and platform architecture initiatives when necessary.

• Assess external data providers and tooling vendors based on API quality, coverage, latency, reliability, cost, and complexity of integration.

• Create product rituals, documentation standards, and feedback mechanisms.

• Consult with the CIO regarding product priorities, practitioner requirements, product-engineering trade-offs, and sequencing strategies.

• Begin as the sole product leader and expand by hiring and leading a small product team as the scope of work increases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management, including senior product leadership roles in complex, technical, and data-intensive environments.

• Experience in building or scaling a product function, which includes hiring product managers, establishing standards, and managing product workflows across various stakeholders.

• Extensive experience with internal platforms, expert-user workflows, trading systems, research tools, market data, financial technology, data infrastructure, or similarly intricate product environments.

• Capability to engage with highly specialized users, thoroughly understand their workflows, and translate ambiguous needs into clear product decisions.

• Strong technical and data fluency, including the ability to query data, inspect unfamiliar datasets, validate quality, and collaborate closely with engineers on architecture and trade-offs.

• Exceptional ability to write requirements and generate clear, outcome-oriented specifications.

• Strong product judgment with the ability to question requests, collect evidence, escalate trade-offs, and commit to decisions confidently.

• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to document decisions, requirements, and trade-offs effectively.

• Ability to act swiftly while upholding rigor in a real-money environment.

• Independent judgment with the skill to constructively disagree, remain composed under pressure, and align with team decisions.

• Experience in a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, quantitative management, market making, crypto trading firm, or financial data/platform company is highly advantageous.

• Knowledge of crypto markets, including spot, perpetuals, funding rates, liquidity, on-chain data, unlock schedules, block explorers, and market microstructure is highly valuable.

• Experience evaluating market data, on-chain data, alternative data, or third-party data providers is highly valuable.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams is highly valuable.

• Familiarity with research, analytics, risk, execution, portfolio, or monitoring workflows is highly beneficial.

• Direct experience with SQL, Python, notebooks, analytics tools, or similar data investigation tools is highly valuable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the product discipline within a leading firm.

• Collaborative work environment with access to senior leadership.

• Career growth potential as the product team expands.

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, wellness, and retirement plans.