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Title: Product Manager

Job Description:
Greenline is seeking a Senior Product Manager responsible for providing vision, planning, and release management for both new and existing products. This position requires someone extremely technical with the ability to act as a liaison between customers and internal development resources. This is the ideal position for a senior-level developer or architect looking to move over to the product management side or for an existing product manager to move to a dynamic team with the opportunity to manage multiple new products.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Managing the entire product lifecycle from inception to product release and delivery
  • Produce market roll-out plans and timings for products
  • Analysis of market conditions, competition, and product strengths/weaknesses to create product strategy. Business case analysis to justify product strategy and roadmap.
  • Gathering and prioritizing customer requirements
  • Creating business requirements and use cases that can be leveraged to develop and test software products
  • High-level software architecture design and analysis
  • Working hand-in-hand with development and QA managers to ensure product is implemented according to business use cases
  • Presenting/Demonstrating products to customers to solicit feedback and/or generate sales
  • Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products
  • Working with sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met
  • Ensuring that the product and marketing efforts support the company's overall strategy and goals

Desired Skills

  • Expert in the FIX protocol for pre trade (quoting, IOI, market data), trade (basic and complex order types), and post trade (trade reporting, allocation) messaging.
  • Must have a comprehensive understanding of electronic trading on US and European futures, options, equities, and FX Exchanges/ECNS
  • Must have a thorough understanding of Order Entry and Market Data APIs
  • Must be extremely well versed in the following technologies/products
  • 3-5 Years of Development experience with Object Oriented programming language (preferred Java)
  • 1-2 Years Software Architecture/Design Experience
  • Experience with SQL-based databases (Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL)
  • Comfortable working in linux/solaris/unix environment
  • Advanced/expert user of MS Project, Excel, Word, and Visio
  • Prior experience as business analyst or product manager preferred but not required
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Customer-focused mindset
  • 10% Travel

Education/Work Experience

  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field required
  • MBA preferred but not required