AI-Native Product Manager

About Shift Markets

Shift Markets began in the world of traditional finance as a pioneer in FX technology. Recognizing the transformative potential of digital assets early on, we set out to bridge the gap between traditional markets and crypto, making digital asset trading accessible to businesses of all sizes, from emerging brokerages to global institutions.

We are a global team with a shared mission to innovate in crypto infrastructure. Whether collaborating in the office, connecting remotely, or representing Shift at industry events, we work together as one to move finance forward. We believe collaboration fuels creativity, diversity drives strength, and curiosity keeps us ahead of the curve.

Every great company is built by great people. Join us to help shape the future of digital asset infrastructure.

About the Role

We’re hiring an experienced Product Manager with deep trading and derivatives expertise to own and accelerate our institutional trading roadmap. You’ll serve as an AI-native product leader who can turn complex trading and risk requirements into clear product direction, detailed specifications, prototypes, and shipped capabilities.

You’ll sit at the intersection of trading operations, product strategy, and engineering, working directly with institutional clients and internal stakeholders to define and deliver infrastructure supporting FX, equities, futures, options, commodities, and crypto markets.

This is a highly autonomous role which requires operating from high-level direction, defining scope independently, and applying leverage across the company.

What You’ll Be Doing

Own the roadmap for trading and derivatives products.

Translate complex trading operations and risk requirements into scalable product capabilities.

Partner directly with institutional clients to understand workflows, pain points, and requirements.

Collaborate with engineering, business, and client-facing teams to deliver trading infrastructure.

Define product priorities, make roadmap tradeoffs, and proactively solve user problems.

Create clear product requirements, workflows, and technical specifications.

AI-Native Product Expectations

AI will be part of your daily workflow as a force multiplier to materially improve the quality and speed of your output. We expect that you are already using modern tooling to operate at a high level and with leverage. We expect you to be confident using AI tools for:

Product Discovery & Research

Synthesize client feedback and trading requirements.

Accelerate market, competitor, and workflow research.

Explore solution options quickly and efficiently.

Product Design & Prototyping

Create visual product concepts and workflows using tools such as Figma, v0, Lovable, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted tools.

Produce functional prototypes that clearly communicate product direction.

Specifications & Systems Thinking

Generate detailed specifications, workflows, and technical documentation.

Create diagrams, process maps, sequence flows, and structured requirements.

Think in terms of data flows, APIs, architecture, lifecycle events, and edge cases.

Product Operations

Use AI to accelerate roadmap planning and execution.

Create and manage structured delivery workflows in tools such as Asana, including task generation, acceptance criteria, and dependency mapping.

What We’re Looking For

This role requires the following skills and experience:

Trading & Domain Expertise

3-5+ years of experience in trading, risk management, derivatives, or trading infrastructure.

Experience running or supporting a trading desk or building trading software.

Strong understanding of risk management, hedging, liquidity and exposure, trading infrastructure and market mechanics.

Experience with one or more of: FX, equities, futures, options, commodities and/or crypto markets.

Product & Technical Thinking

Strong systems thinking and ability to translate ambiguity into c