Senior Product Owner

Description

DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Owner to sit at the center of DriveWealth's capital markets ecosystem, translating complex workflows and business problems into scalable, build-ready product solutions.

In this role, you will lead high-impact initiatives across the platform, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and external industry participants. You will develop a deep understanding of end-to-end workflows, define product and functional solutions, and drive execution across multiple systems, asset classes, and partner models.

This is a hands-on role for someone who combines strong capital markets or wealth domain expertise, analytical thinking, technical fluency, and product execution. You should be comfortable moving between business workflows, data analysis, APIs and system interactions, detailed requirements, and conversations with engineers and operational stakeholders.

You'll thrive in this role if you bring:

Deep U.S. capital markets and trade processing experience, with the ability to apply it hands-on across workflows, data, APIs, and functional solution design

A coachable attitude and a learning mindset, with comfort handling changing priorities

Leadership and ownership in running development teams and driving work through to delivery

Strong communication and follow-up skills

Responsibilities

• Own product solutions: take complex trade processing problems from discovery and analysis through solution design, requirements, delivery, and production readiness
• Translate business needs: convert business and product objectives into detailed functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data definitions
• Analyze end-to-end workflows: understand upstream and downstream impacts across trading, transaction processing, positions, cash, settlement, transfers, and operational workflows
• Perform data analysis: use data and SQL to investigate workflows, validate processing logic, analyze exceptions, and support product decisions
• Design integrations: partner with Engineering on APIs, events, data models, system interfaces, and service interactions
• Manage the backlog: own and prioritize product backlog items and lead refinement sessions to ensure requirements are understood, technically feasible, and ready for development
• Solve complex problems: investigate production and processing issues, identify root causes, and develop scalable solutions rather than tactical fixes
• Drive stakeholder alignment: present solution designs and trade-offs and drive decisions across Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and other stakeholders
• Partner externally: work with brokers, clearing firms, custodians, vendors, and other market participants to design and deliver integrated capabilities
• You Bring
• 4+ years of experience in capital markets, brokerage, wealth management, or fintech, with significant exposure to U.S. markets
• Strong hands-on knowledge of back-office transaction processing
• Experience working with back-office platforms
• Experience within a fintech, broker-dealer, bank, clearing firm, custodian, or capital-markets technology provider
• Experience working across multiple functional areas such as trading, middle office, back office, operations, settlement, cash, positions, or data
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex end-to-end workflows spanning multiple systems and translate them into clear product and functional designs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate complex transaction scenarios and identify root causes
• Experience designing or working with REST APIs, event-driven integrations, data models, and service-based architectures
• Working knowledge of SQL or equivalent database-querying tools for analysis, reconciliation, and issue investigation
• Strong written communication skills with demonstrated ability to produce precise, build-ready functional documentation
• Ability to work effectively with Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and other business teams
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, multi-system, and multi-partner environments
• Experience working with industry participants such as broker-dealers, clearing firms, custodians, banks, or financial technology vendors
• Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)
• Account and securities transfers
• Clearing and settlement
• Positions and balances
• Reconciliations
• Corporate actions
• Cost basis / tax lots
• Equities and options processing
• DTC / NSCC / DTCC workflows
• Custodian or clearing-broker integrations
• U.S. equity market processing, fixed income, and auctions experience
• Familiarity with CAT (Consolidated Audit Trail)

Conditions

This role is open to candidates in the following locations: Chicago, IL or New York, NY

This role is expected to come into the office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Working at DriveWealth

We do our best work when we're in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in office on a hybrid schedule. We've found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you're here, you're working directly with the people making the decisions.

To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Disability insurance, and Paid Parental Leave, along with a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.

Work Authorization

Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application. DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.

For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time. Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.

How We Think About AI

We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI-curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction, and improve outcomes to deliver products faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.

Pay is generally based on the level, complexity, responsibility, location, and job duties/requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits. This role is eligible for base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and heavily subsidized benefits and perks.