Junior Product Manager

Cantor Fitzgerald Securities
New York, NY
Responsibilities



  • Requirements & Discovery

    • Partner with broking desks and business stakeholders to document needs, pain points, and enhancement ideas across rates and credit products.
    • Convert business needs into clear user stories , acceptance criteria, and functional requirements.
    • Assist in maintaining the product backlog and supporting prioritization discussions with senior PMs.
  • Delivery & Execution Support

    • Act as day-to-day liaison between broking desks, developers, and QA to ensure smooth delivery.
    • Track deliverables, dependencies, and risks; escalate blockers to senior PMs as needed.
    • Support release readiness activities including documentation, training notes, and rollout communications.
  • Testing & UAT

    • Support QA by reviewing test scenarios and validating business logic for credit and rates workflows.
    • Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end users and ensure sign-offs are completed on time.
  • Data & Product Insights

    • Help analyze usage and workflow data to identify improvement opportunities (e.g., liquidity, pricing, trade capture quality, exception rates).
    • Assist with metrics reporting (feature adoption, workflow performance, issue trends).
Domain Knowledge (Required)

Fixed Income (Rates & Credit)

  • Solid understanding of government bonds (e.g., Treasuries, Gilts, EGBs) and inflation-linked bonds (e.g., TIPS/Linkers).
  • Credit market experience in at least one of:

    • Corporate Bonds (IG/HY)
    • Emerging Markets (EM) Bonds (sovereign and/or corporate)
Derivatives (Required)

  • Working knowledge of

    • Interest Rate Derivatives (IRS, OIS, FRA, Basis Swaps, Swaption and Cap/Floors
    • Credit Derivatives (Single-name CDS and CDS indices)
    • Understanding of key lifecycle events (e.g., coupons, rolls, credit events) at a workflow level
Core Concepts

  • Understanding of key concepts and calculations:

    • Price vs yield , yield-to-maturity, DV01 , and how these are used in trading workflows
    • Credit-specific basics such as spread, clean/dirty price awareness, and settlement conventions (workflow-level)
Structures & Protocols

  • Familiarity with packages/structures:

    • Switches, flies, basis, spread switches (or equivalent packaged trading concepts)
  • Knowledge of trading protocols:

    • CLOB , auction mechanisms (basic understanding)

(Optional) Exposure to implied trading and legging strategies.

Technical Skills

  • Strong Excel skills (advanced formulas; comfort working with large datasets).
  • Working knowledge of SQL for querying data (Oracle, Sybase, or NoSQL exposure helpful).
  • Basic-to-intermediate Python for analysis (Pandas/Matplotlib) in Jupyter/Colab preferred.
  • Comfortable capturing requirements and delivery tracking in Confluence and Jira .

Familiarity with QA practices; ability to help define test scenarios and validate outcomes



Qualifications



  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a product, business analyst, or delivery role within:

    • Fixed income and/or credit trading platforms, e-trading venues, interdealer brokerage, market infrastructure, or adjacent capital markets technology.
  • Demonstrated experience working with:

    • Front-office users (traders/brokers/sales), technology teams, and QA.
Personal Attributes

  • Clear communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
  • Analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with numbers and trading concepts.
  • Proactive, takes initiative, and thrives in fast-paced environments.
  • Collaborative mindset with a bias toward execution and problem-solving.
Posted 2026-03-16

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