Head of Product (Internal Trading & Research Platforms)

Hawksman Technology is working with a leading digital asset proprietary trading firm with a focus on close collaboration, rigorous research, and cutting-edge technology. As the firm continues to scale, they are looking to appoint a Founding Head of Product to build and lead their internal product function. Role: Head of Product (Internal Trading & Research Platforms) This is a unique opportunity to establish the product discipline from the ground up within a high-performance trading environment. You'll work directly with traders, researchers, and engineers to shape the internal systems that power investment decisions, research workflows, risk management, and operational excellence. Unlike traditional product roles, your users are internal experts rather than external customers. Success comes from deeply understanding complex trading and research workflows, translating ambiguous requirements into clear product direction, and ensuring engineering delivers high-impact capabilities that create measurable business value. Responsibilities: Build and establish the firm's product management function, processes, and operating model. Own the roadmap for internal trading, research, analytics, and data platforms. Partner closely with traders and researchers to understand workflows, identify bottlenecks, and uncover high-impact product opportunities. Translate complex business requirements into clear product specifications and engineering priorities. Drive product discovery, prioritisation, roadmap planning, and adoption across multiple stakeholder groups. Champion data quality, lineage, transparency, and system reliability as core product principles. Act as the bridge between trading, research, engineering, and executive leadership, balancing technical trade-offs with business priorities. Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing product team as the function grows. Requirements: 10+ years of Product Management experience, including leadership within complex technical or data-intensive environments. Experience building or scaling a product organisation, including defining processes and leading product teams. Strong background delivering internal platforms, trading systems, research tools, financial technology, data infrastructure, or similarly sophisticated enterprise products. Proven ability to work closely with highly technical stakeholders and translate complex workflows into clear product strategy and requirements. Strong technical fluency, with the ability to work alongside engineers, understand data architecture, and make informed product trade-offs. Excellent written communication and product specification skills. A pragmatic, analytical approach with the ability to prioritise effectively in fast-paced, high-performance environments. Experience within hedge funds, proprietary trading, market making, financial markets, or crypto is highly desirable but not essential. Familiarity with SQL, Python, analytics tools, or data investigation techniques would be advantageous. This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly growing investment firm in a foundational leadership role, with the autonomy to define product strategy, influence technology direction, and build the product capability from the ground up while working alongside some of the industry's leading traders, researchers, and engineers.

Establish and lead the internal product management function, owning the roadmap for trading, research, and data platforms. Act as the primary bridge between traders, researchers, and engineers to translate complex workflows into high-impact technical capabilities.

Requires over 10 years of product management experience with a proven track record of scaling product organizations in technical or data-intensive environments. Strong technical fluency and experience with financial markets, proprietary trading, or crypto is highly desirable.

• Product managementPreferred
• SQLPreferred
• PythonPreferred

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• Product Management
• Product Strategy
• Roadmap Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Architecture
• Technical Specification
• Product Discovery
• Team Leadership
• Financial Technology
• Trading Systems
• SQL
• Python
• Risk Management
• Data Infrastructure
• Analytics Tools
• Operational Excellence

• Management & Leadership
• Finance & Accounting
• Data & Analytics
• Software
• Technology

Minimum experience

10+ years

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Seniority

Director

Application method

Direct apply is available