Associate Director, Prime Services, Institutional Product

Financial Services Firm in Tampa, Florida is seeking a Product Manager to assist with the growth of their Prime Services platform!

Responsibilities:

• Assist with the build of a Prime Services platform, a modern institutional trading, custody, clearing, financing, and technology platform designed for hedge funds, family offices, proprietary trading firms, asset managers, and other professional market participants.
• Translate buyside client needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, process flows, commercial assumptions, and implementation plans for Engineering, Design, Trading, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Professional Services.
• Build capabilities for low-latency execution, DMA access, smart order routing, advanced order types, FIX/API integrations, OMS/EMS connectivity, drop copies, institutional market data, and execution-only or custody-plus-execution models.
• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Prime Services, including institutional onboarding, entity and fund account structures, master-sub accounts, trading workflows, account maintenance, reporting, billing, and service tools.
• Define the core user experience for hedge funds, family offices, prop trading shops, asset managers, traders, operations users, and authorized principals across web, desktop, portal, file-based, FIX, and API workflows.
• Partner with Risk, Trading, Operations, and Compliance to design workflows for market access controls, pre-trade risk checks, real-time margin, portfolio margin, trader limits, kill switches, short locate requirements, surveillance, and exception management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, or Consulting
• 4+ years Experience building or managing product capabilities within institutional brokerage, prime brokerage, custody, clearing, trading technology, hedge fund services, fintech, or capital markets infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of buyside workflows, including institutional onboarding, account structures, trading, order routing, allocations, margin, risk, settlement, stock borrow, reporting, billing, and operational support.
• Direct experience with hedge fund, family office, proprietary trading, asset manager, prime brokerage, institutional execution, DVP/RVP, or clearing platform workflows.
• Familiarity with institutional platforms and providers such as Interactive Brokers, Clear Street, Client, Brokerage, Pershing, DASH, FlexTrade, Bloomberg EMSX, or similar OMS/EMS, prime brokerage, and clearing ecosystems.
• Ability to convert complex business, operational, regulatory, trading, and technical requirements into clear product requirements and execution plans.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Trading, Sales, and client-facing teams.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, or similar product/project management tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders, technical teams, and sophisticated institutional clients.
• Knowledge of FIX, REST APIs, WebSocket feeds, OMS/EMS integrations, drop copy, average pricing, trade allocations, portfolio margin, Reg T, securities lending, hard-to-borrow locates, and real-time risk dashboards.
• Understanding of regulatory, supervisory, margin, market access, trade reporting, books and records, surveillance, and client communication requirements in an institutional broker-dealer or clearing environment.