VP, Product

About PEAK6 We're In The Business Of What Ought To Be The business of doing, creating, and building the world the way we see fit. We seek out the transformational opportunity, making it better, more useful, more valuable. At PEAK6, we activate what is into what ought to be through world-class technology, operational excellence and purposeful design. PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through technology, simplifying processes, improving performance and creating new wealth.

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peak6.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Financial Services

Chicago, IL

Privately Held

35k LinkedIn followers

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the trading desk, and tie every major bet to a measurable outcome in trader performance, efficiency, or risk.
• Decide what gets built, what waits, and what stops, and own the result. Balance a demanding group of stakeholders without becoming an order taker.
• Run the roadmap as a set of experiments: name the hypothesis, test the riskiest assumption first, and scale or kill based on evidence.
• Define and ship agents that monitor markets and positions, surface ideas, stage orders, and automate follow-through across OMS, EMS, and risk platforms.
• Set the autonomy model: where agents act on their own, where they recommend, where a trader confirms, and what evidence it takes to give a workflow more autonomy.
• Design trust into the product: evaluations, guardrails, audit trails, explainability, and clean handoffs between agents and people, in partnership with Risk and Compliance.
• Find and remove manual touchpoints across the trade lifecycle, choosing between a process change, an agent, buy or partner, or a new build.
• Build a team that works agent-first, using AI to speed up discovery, prototyping, requirements, testing, and analysis so ideas reach traders in days, not quarters.
• Partner with Engineering across the full lifecycle, from initiation and build/buy/partner analysis through design, testing, release, and adoption. Step in directly on requirements, testing, and release when the team needs it.
• Lead, coach, and develop a lean team of product managers with clear goals, fast feedback, and high standards, and grow the next generation of product leaders at the firm.
• Build a product operating model and agentic playbook that can be carried into other PEAK6 businesses.
• Over time, take on broader PEAK6 product leadership, including direct or dotted-line oversight of smaller businesses, and share platforms, patterns, and lessons across the group.
• 7 or more years in product management, including at least several years as product lead and owning a roadmap end to end.
• A track record of shipping products that users adopted and that moved a measurable business outcome, not only products that launched.
• Strong opinions, held with evidence. You can explain why something should or should not be built, defend it under pushback, and change your mind when the data says to.
• Vision and detail at the same time. You can describe where a product should be in two to three years, then write the requirements and test the release that gets it there.
• Hands-on fluency with AI and agents. You use them every day in your own work, and you have built or shipped products where AI does real work instead of sitting on top as a feature.
• Sound judgment on autonomy and trust. You know how to evaluate agent performance, design human-in-the-loop controls, and expand autonomy as the evidence builds.
• Credibility with expert users. You can talk their language, earn their trust, and push back when a request is not the right answer.
• Enough technical depth to partner closely with engineering on architecture, data, and integration tradeoffs, and to know when a shortcut will become a real problem later.
• Comfort with pace and ambiguity. You move quickly, run several high-stakes efforts at once, and stay effective when priorities shift.
• A builder's instinct and the discipline of an operator. You get energy from creating new products, and you still put in place the process, cadence, and transparency a team needs to deliver reliably.
• Ideally experience working in a regulated environment alongside Risk, Compliance, and Legal, and treating them as design partners rather than blockers.
• Ideally trading or financial markets experience, ideally options, OMS, EMS, or risk systems. You also have a view on how these workflows should look in the future, not only how they have always worked.
• The ambition and range to grow past a single business, with an interest in leading product across a group of businesses.
• You take risk and make decisions with incomplete information, and you own the outcome
• You have opinions, you share them, and you can be persuaded by better data
• You get your hands dirty and move things forward instead of waiting for perfect clarity
• You understand product and its value: you treat internal users as customers and care whether they adopt and benefit from what you ship
• You keep a good attitude under pressure, high feedback volume, and stakeholder dissatisfaction, and you work through it constructively
• We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. As a hybrid workforce, we offer our employees the ability to work remotely up to two days a week.
• Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and office location. This position also may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in addition to a range of health & wellness benefits, enhancing your overall compensation package.
• $230,720-$288,400
• Application data may be reviewed, including through automated tools, for security and fraud-prevention purposes. This review is conducted by our information security team and is separate from hiring decisions

• Healthcare benefits
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Competitive PTO
• 401k match
• Parental leave
• HSA contribution match
• Calm app subscription
• Tuition reimbursement