Product Manager

Overview

Responsibilities

  • Work within the Product Management team to identify new decoders and new analytics to support tactical and strategic initiatives
  • Work closely with account teams to assess priorities and timescales for new decoders and analytics - can require high responsiveness to win new business
  • Work with customers, vendors and exchange operators to provide engineering with specification documents, capture and other supporting information
  • Write requirements for engineering and ensure that new decoders and analytics meet the customer needs
  • Work closely with engineering to assess estimates, refine requirements and prioritise the decoder and analytics backlog
  • Stay up to date with the scheduled protocol changes for all the major global exchanges
 

Requirements

  • The successful candidate must have a desire to join a highly skilled and experienced Product Management team with a view to embarking on a career in Product Management
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or similar
  • 5 years software development experience - preferably C and C++
  • Candidate must have knowledge of networking (ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP), ideally with some experience of performance monitoring
  • Strong leadership and negotiation skills are mandatory and you must work well in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - experience in a customer facing role is an advantage
  • Familiarity with trading protocols such as FIX would be an advantage

Responsibilities

  • Work within the Product Management team to identify new decoders and new analytics to support tactical and strategic initiatives
  • Work closely with account teams to assess priorities and timescales for new decoders and analytics - can require high responsiveness to win new business
  • Work with customers, vendors and exchange operators to provide engineering with specification documents, capture and other supporting information
  • Write requirements for engineering and ensure that new decoders and analytics meet the customer needs
  • Work closely with engineering to assess estimates, refine requirements and prioritise the decoder and analytics backlog
  • Stay up to date with the scheduled protocol changes for all the major global exchanges
 

Requirements

  • The successful candidate must have a desire to join a highly skilled and experienced Product Management team with a view to embarking on a career in Product Management
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or similar
  • 5 years software development experience - preferably C and C++
  • Candidate must have knowledge of networking (ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP), ideally with some experience of performance monitoring
  • Strong leadership and negotiation skills are mandatory and you must work well in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - experience in a customer facing role is an advantage
  • Familiarity with trading protocols such as FIX would be an advantage

Cathay Duffy, IT Recruitment Consultant - Your e-Frontiers consultant for this job

Cathal is a member of the Software & Business Technology Team, mainly specialising in hiring Business Analysts, Project Managers and Product Managers for small to medium sized Irish companies to global leaders in the technology sector. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons), from the National University of Ireland, Galway specialising in Human Resources (HR).

Specialises in: Business Analysts, Project Managers, Agile