Exchange Relations Manager

Databento; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Health and dental insurance

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Databento is seeking an Exchange Relations Manager to oversee the onboarding, licensing, and compliance processes for various trading venues. This role requires strong coordination among operations, product, and compliance teams while managing relationships across a portfolio of exchanges.

Ideal candidates will have experience in exchange relationships and market data licensing along with excellent project management skills. Benefits include a 401k, health and dental insurance, and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in managing exchange relationships or market data licensing.
• Strong familiarity with compliance and reporting requirements.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own exchange onboarding and licensing for new trading venues.
• Manage obligations for exchange reporting and audits.
• Facilitate customer onboarding regarding licensing requirements.

Skills

Exchange relationship management

Operational and project management

Knowledge of licensing requirements

Ability to coordinate across teams

Job description

We’re looking for our first Exchange Relations Manager to own exchange onboarding, licensing, compliance, reporting, and exchange relationship management across our growing portfolio of global market data offerings.

This is a highly cross‑functional role spanning operations, product, compliance, and strategy. You’ll work with more than 100 exchanges and trading venues globally, helping ensure we can launch new datasets quickly while remaining compliant with licensing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own exchange onboarding, applications, agreements, and licensing requirements for new trading venues and market data feeds.
• Manage exchange reporting obligations, including monthly usage reports, subscriber reporting, and audit requests.
• Ensure exchange licensing timelines stay aligned with engineering and product roadmaps.
• Facilitate customer onboarding by helping customers navigate exchange licensing requirements and subscriber agreements.
• Partner with product teams to design market data offerings that align with exchange licensing restrictions and policies.
• Work with commercial and marketing teams to implement pricing structures, user agreements, and usage policies for new datasets.
• Manage relationships with exchanges and trading venues, ensuring internal stakeholders remain aware of licensing, policy, and pricing changes.
• Monitor customer usage and reporting data to identify opportunities for commercial upgrades and expanded licensing relationships.
• Drive process improvements across exchange administration, reporting, licensing, and related operational workflows.

Qualifications

• Prior experience managing exchange relationships, market data licensing, compliance, or administration functions at a financial services firm, market data vendor, exchange, or trading venue.
• Strong operational and project management skills.
• Willingness to operate in a fast‑moving environment and build processes where none currently exist.
• Strong familiarity with exchange agreements, subscriber reporting, audits, and licensing requirements.
• Existing network within the exchange and market data ecosystem.
• Ability to manage a large portfolio of external relationships and coordinate across multiple internal teams.

Benefits

• 401k
• Health and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO