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Senior Product Owner

DriveWealth

Chicago, IL

$195k – $215k/yr

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About the Company

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

Key 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 integrati