Trading Data Platform Product Manager

Selby Jennings; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings’ client, a leading proprietary trading firm, seeks a Data Product Manager, Research Platform to join a centralized data organization supporting traders, quantitative researchers, and engineering teams. This role shapes and scales the research data platform, ensuring datasets are accessible, discoverable, and aligned to front-office needs.

The candidate will blend strong financial markets knowledge with data product experience, working across business and technical stakeholders in

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting front-office stakeholders in trading, hedge funds, or banks.
• Strong knowledge of equities, options, futures, and other instruments.
• Experience with market, research, or enterprise data platforms.
• Translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
• Partner with traders, researchers, PMs, and quantitative teams.
• Proficient in SQL and Python (Pandas).

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineering teams to understand data requirements.
• Evaluate, onboard, and manage new datasets throughout their lifecycle.
• Improve dataset discoverability, metadata, and platform usability.
• Collaborate with data engineers to prioritize initiatives and deliver scalable data products.
• Own stakeholder engagement during data onboarding, ensuring cross-team alignment.
• Assess new data offerings and manage vendor relationships.
• Analyze datasets for quality, completeness, accessibility, and business value.
• Support access management and entitlements for dataset use.
• Promote platform capabilities to front-office users.
• Stay informed on market data and data tech developments to identify enhancements.

Skills

Financial markets knowledge

Stakeholder collaboration

Data platform experience

SQL

Python

Pandas

Communication skills

Data governance awareness

Tools

Snowflake

AWS S3

Alation

Collibra

Atlan

DataHub

Job description

Selby Jennings’ client, a leading proprietary trading firm, seeks a Data Product Manager, Research Platform to join a centralized data organization supporting traders, quantitative researchers, and engineering teams. This role shapes and scales the research data platform, ensuring datasets are accessible, discoverable, and aligned to front-office needs.

The candidate will blend strong financial markets knowledge with data product experience, working across business and technical stakeholders in