Senior Ops Manager: Trade Lifecycle & Launch Readiness

Bitget; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitget is seeking a Senior Associate Operations to support US futures, digital-asset, and equity back-offices. You will own trade flow management, margin monitoring, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting while ensuring readiness for new product launches.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Legal to define requirements and drive scalable, well-controlled solutions in a fast-paced environment and with an eye on regulatory expectations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services or fintech operations with trade operations, margin, reconciliation, or regulatory reporting focus.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end trade lifecycle in regulated markets (clearing, settlement, margining, position reconciliation).
• Experience supporting product launches, requirements gathering, and go-live stabilization.
• Strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and other stakeholders in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve back-office operations across core workflows (trade flow, position, margin, reconciliation, reporting).
• Own trade lifecycle exception management end-to-end, with SLAs, KPIs, dashboards, and incident handling.
• Ensure clearing operations comply with regulatory requirements; support audits and regulatory inquiries.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, and external partners to translate needs into scalable solutions.
• Lead operational readiness for new product launches: requirements, UAT, playbooks, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Identify and implement automation and tooling to reduce manual work and improve scalability and control.

Skills

Trade operations

Margin monitoring

Reconciliation

Regulatory reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Bitget is seeking a Senior Associate Operations to support US futures, digital-asset, and equity back-offices. You will own trade flow management, margin monitoring, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting while ensuring readiness for new product launches.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Legal to define requirements and drive scalable, well-controlled solutions in a fast-paced environment and with an eye on regulatory expectations.