Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Taiwan.

📋 Description

• Establish and enhance the product discipline within the firm. Outline methods for problem discovery, requirement gathering, specification writing, trade-off reviews, adoption measurement, and user feedback integration.

• Oversee 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 the foundational aspects of the platform, including data quality, provenance, tool reliability, and scalability.

• Collaborate directly with traders and researchers to comprehend real workflows: how they identify opportunities, analyze data, formulate hypotheses, track positions, evaluate risks, and make decisions. Your role involves understanding the decision-making process and pinpointing which system capabilities would offer the greatest leverage.

• Convert vague practitioner requirements into precise, evidence-based specifications that engineering can effectively implement. These requirements should encompass business context, user workflows, data assumptions, expected behaviors, edge cases, success metrics, and pertinent trade-offs.

• Guarantee our internal systems foster trust. Traders and researchers must be able to trace the origin of data points, understand the assumptions behind calculations, recognize changes in signals, and identify when human judgment is necessary.

• Serve as the vital link between trading, research, engineering, and management. You will clearly present trade-offs, constructively challenge assumptions, and aid the firm in making informed prioritization decisions.

• Begin as the primary product leader and build a team as the workload increases. Recruit and develop product managers, establish high standards for discovery and specification quality, and cultivate a product culture that aligns with a high-performance trading environment.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven experience in building or scaling a product function, including recruiting product managers, setting standards, and managing product initiatives 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.

• A strong ability to collaborate with highly specialized users, deeply understand their workflows, and translate ambiguous needs into definitive product decisions.

• High technical and data fluency. Comfort with querying data, inspecting unfamiliar datasets, verifying quality, and collaborating closely with engineers on architecture and trade-offs is essential.

• Exceptional skills in writing requirements. You can create specifications that accurately reflect user problems, are clear enough for engineering, and align with business or workflow outcomes.

• Strong product judgment. You understand when to challenge requests, seek more evidence, escalate trade-offs, and commit to decisions once made.

• Excellent written communication skills. We maintain a robust writing culture; critical decisions, requirements, and trade-offs should be thoroughly documented.

• Ability to act swiftly without sacrificing quality. You can keep pace with trading and research cycles while maintaining rigor in a real-money environment.

• Sound independent judgment and the capacity to disagree constructively. You can present evidence-based arguments, remain composed under pressure, and align with decisions once made.

• Highly Valuable

• Experience in a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, quantitative manager, market maker, crypto trading firm, or financial data/platform company.

• Familiarity with crypto markets, including spot trading, perpetuals, funding rates, liquidity, on-chain data, unlock schedules, block explorers, and market microstructure.

• Experience in evaluating market data, on-chain data, alternative data, or other third-party data sources.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

• Familiarity with research, analytics, risk, execution, portfolio management, or monitoring workflows.

• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, notebooks, analytics tools, or similar methods for direct data investigation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• A dynamic and inclusive workplace culture.