Technical Product Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a highly-driven Technical Product Manager who can provide organisation and coordination support for our engineering initiatives. Technology is core to our business and this role is an opportunity to work alongside our engineers as we build and optimise Jane Streets trading technology.

Youll draw from your technical background on a daily basis leading projects through their entire lifecycle including defining goals developing timelines tracking milestones managing developer time identifying risks and coordinating with related teams. Youll also communicate project schedules priorities and status updates to the larger organisation.

Strong communication skills and the ability to manage competing priorities will be necessary to collaborate across a wide range of teams at Jane Streetincluding developers business teams operations supportas well as with external financial entities to make sure each project is delivered on time and meets or exceeds stated goals and expectations.

We operate in a flexible problem-solving environment that encourages people to think outside the box when developing processes and tools for the project at hand. The person in this role needs to be a strategic thinker who considers the goals of the group and project when problem solving.

This role sits within Jane Streets technology group which designs deploys and supports all of the infrastructure that underpins our trading activities. The scope of our systems is large and youll gain insight into a broad cross section of the global market as you work to improve them. To succeed in this role you must enjoy working independently on small teams learning on the fly and making decisions that have a real and immediate impact on the firm.

At Jane Street the P in TPM can mean a lot of different things. Depending on the team the person and the circumstances you may find yourself anywhere on the spectrum from Product Manager to Program Manager. As a result youll be most successful at Jane Street if youre comfortable with that sort of ambiguity and happy to roll your sleeves up and dig into the problem at hand bringing whatever relevant skills you have to bear whether through large-scale program management and coordination product vision business context or anything else. Thats also why youll find a second job posting for Technical Program Manager elsewhere on the site that looks just like this one - feel free to apply to whichever you think fits your experience and interests better and well make sure your profile ends up in the right pipeline.

About You

• Bachelors degree in engineering computer science or other technical field is preferred. However were also excited to talk to people who have picked up technical know-how through industry experience
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience managing software development projects
• Experience with project management planning tools (i.e. Jira spreadsheets)
• Ability to describe detailed problems with brevity and accuracy
• Ability to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Fluency in English required

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