Product Director, Institutional Trading

About Wintermute

 At Wintermute, our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products
We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains
  Wintermute’s customer-facing business includes various OTC products such as electronic trading API and single-dealer platforms for a wide range of counterparties from crypto native whales to large traditional finance institutions
Wintermute is also providing market-making services for blockchain projects where we support most of the world’s largest and most prominent launches
In addition to providing the best in class liquidity products, Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of its own projects
  Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap
We manage billions of dollars in assets and trade more than $5B/day
We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top-tier investors
We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy
 Product Management at Wintermute

 We are looking for a Product Director to drive our financial OTC products offering and trading capabilities for crypto native and traditional institutional counterparties
 You will be responsible for managing and driving growth for  Wintermute OTC offering across various electronic and voice trading products
  You will be responsible for all commercial aspects of the business from roadmap definition to roadmap execution, to PnL responsibility
You will work cross-functionally and cooperate closely with trading, operations, business development, and marketing
 

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Delivery
  
   
• Develop the roadmap for electronic trading products (single-dealer platform, institutional API solutions) as well as for voice trading (derivatives, tailored products, etc) 
• Manage the execution of the product roadmap which involves managing cross-functional teams, external service providers, as well as being very hands on 
• Manage the implementation of new products, functionality and features within strict and short timelines
• Work closely with software developers teams and traders and be able to understand and drive both technical and financial product requirements
• Go To Market
  
   
• Drive the definition of Go-to-Market strategy in cooperation with the COO and other relevant teams based on a deep understanding of the market, competitive landscape, counterparty needs, product and implementation feasibility
• Develop new product launch plans including market research, go-to-market, regulatory and technology aspects
• Detail product benefits and features and brief marketing on the correct positioning of the products 
• Develop strategic partnerships and maintain relationships with key counterparties and partners 
• Commercial ownership
  
   
• Be ultimately responsible for the PnL of the business 
• Drive both short-term operational and longer-term strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability across various products and trading counterparties