Technical Product Manager

Fintal Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners in Chicago is seeking a Technical Product Manager to shape and deliver trading applications used by investment professionals, balancing speed, reliability, and usability. This highly visible role sits at the intersection of product, technology, and financial markets.

You will partner with end users and engineering teams to translate complex workflows into clear requirements, own the product roadmap, and drive delivery from definition through launch and iteration, ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to translate user needs into clear product direction and roadmaps.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with end users to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for improvement.
• Own the development and evolution of complex, business-critical applications and user interfaces.
• Translate user needs into clear product requirements, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Work closely with software engineers and other technical stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive initiatives from initial problem definition and scoping through development, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Improve user experience and workflow efficiency in fast, high-stakes environments.
• Balance requirements across multiple user groups while identifying scalable, reusable solutions.
• Communicate product priorities, progress, dependencies, and risks across technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

Product management

Technical collaboration

User workflow expertise

Job description

We are partnering with a leading technology-driven financial firm that is making a significant investment in the next generation of its internal trading applications. They are looking for a Technical Product Manager to help shape and deliver the tools that investment professionals rely on throughout the trading day.

This is a highly visible role sitting at the intersection of product, technology, and financial markets. You will work closely with end users and engineering teams to understand complex workflows and translate them into intuitive, high-performance products. The applications you own will be business-critical, so usability, speed, reliability, and clarity are essential.

The successful candidate will have meaningful ownership over product direction and execution, with the opportunity to influence how critical technology is designed and used across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with end users to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for improvement
• Own the development and evolution of complex, business-critical applications and user interfaces
• Translate user needs into clear product requirements, priorities, and roadmaps
• Work closely with software engineers and other technical stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
• Drive initiatives from initial problem definition and scoping through development, launch, adoption, and iteration
• Improve user experience and workflow efficiency in environments where speed and accuracy are critical
• Balance requirements across multiple user groups while identifying opportunities to create scalable, reusable solutions
• Communicate product priorities, progress, dependencies, and risks across technical and business stakeholders
• Proactively identify potential challenges and help teams address them before they impact delivery

What We’re Looking For

• Experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, or similar product-focused role
• Track record of owning complex products or applications that are critical to users' day-to-day work
• Strong technical foundation and the ability to work closely with software engineering teams
• Ability to understand systems, data flows, technical constraints, and engineering tradeoffs
• Strong understanding of user workflows and how product and design decisions affect efficiency and decision-making
• Experience translating ambiguous or complex business problems into clear product direction
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience within financial markets, trading technology, fintech, or another real-time technology environment is highly desirable, but not required

Why This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of products at the center of a sophisticated, technology-driven business. You will work directly with highly technical teams and demanding end users, helping modernize critical applications and shape products that have an immediate impact on how the organization operates.

The role offers significant ownership, visibility, and the opportunity to build products where technical performance and user experience genuinely matter.