VP, Technology Vendor Relationship Manager, Financial Markets & Trading Platforms

Role Overview

• Serve as the vendor relationship manager for critical technology vendors supporting trading platforms, capital markets systems, and market‑operations environments.
• Lead vendor governance activities, including performance management, service reviews, and vendor‑driven innovation.
• Minimize value leakage and ensure the organization captures the full value of vendor investments.
• Act as a subject matter expert on contract structures, usage, commercial levers, and pricing models specific to market‑technology vendors.
• Partner with Procurement on benchmarking, pricing negotiations, and commercial strategy for large‑scale, multi‑service agreements.
• Lead technology’s engagement in RFI/RFP processes to ensure requirements reflect trading‑platform needs, regulatory obligations, and operational dependencies.
• Advise on emerging technologies, market‑structure shifts, regulatory impacts, and evolving vendor capabilities.
• Evaluate vendor offerings and industry trends across equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, execution, OMS/EMS, and other trading‑technology domains.
• Support technology leaders with insights influencing platform strategy, vendor selection, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Monitor vendor performance, SLAs, operational stability, incident support, and delivery quality to ensure alignment with trading‑environment expectations.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate operational, compliance, regulatory, cybersecurity, and third‑party risks.
• Collaborate with Technology, Operations, Risk, Legal, and Compliance partners to ensure vendors meet all regulatory and control standards.
• Support issue resolution for escalated vendor incidents and oversee vendor offboarding where appropriate.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience managing complex technology vendors, contracts, or strategic partnerships.
• 10+ years of financial‑services experience with direct exposure to capital markets, trading systems, market data, OMS/EMS, or trade‑lifecycle technology.
• Demonstrated experience working with major industry vendors (e.g., trading platforms, execution systems, clearing/settlement vendors).
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and commercial skills.
• Experience developing and analyzing RFPs, SLAs, and complex commercial agreements.

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• 401K matching
• health benefits
• employee stock options
• paid time off
• volunteer time off