Trading Product Growth Manager

NinjaTrader is an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker dedicated to empowering traders. The Trading Product Growth Manager will own the execution of new trading experiences, manage partner integrations, and lead the rollout of new instruments while ensuring cross-functional alignment and measurable success.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end program execution for new trading experiences and new instrument readiness
• Drive partner integrations and internal coordination to move initiatives from concept to live adoption
• Bring clarity to scope, sequencing, and measurable success criteria for early-stage programs
• Keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned and unblocked while work is evolving
• Manage the roadmap from concept through launch and iteration of new trading capabilities
• Evaluate and manage external partners, integration plans, and ongoing operational readiness
• Coordinate platform integration requirements including APIs, workflow dependencies, and brokerage operations considerations
• Define success metrics and establish reporting cadence
• Align go-to-market readiness with Marketing, Lifecycle, and Support to drive awareness, activation, and sustained usage
• Lead launch readiness for new tradable instruments, coordinating Risk, Compliance, Operations, Product, Engineering, and GTM
• Drive cross-functional launch plans, manage dependencies, and maintain decision logs
• Identify operational requirements and gaps including accounting treatment, margin and risk controls, disclosures, and support enablement
• Build structured launch checklists and ensure cutover readiness and post-launch issue management
• Partner with Product and Engineering to prioritize launch-critical work and remove execution blockers
• Size opportunities and define sequencing based on expected business impact and adoption potential
• Create concise executive updates focused on outcomes, risks, and decisions
• Build repeatable playbooks to accelerate future trading experience launches and instrument expansion

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of experience in program management, business operations, product operations, partnerships, market launch, or platform integrations
• Experience in trading ecosystems including brokerage, active trading platforms, market structure, or derivatives-adjacent products
• Fluency in APIs, integrations, and operational workflows
• Ability to drive cross-functional execution with high accountability and low bureaucracy
• Strong written communication skills and comfort owning ambiguity until it becomes a structured execution plan
• Background at an active trading brokerage or platform
• Experience launching new asset classes, market features, or partner integrations in regulated environments
• Comfort working with Risk and Compliance as primary stakeholders