Overview
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Location: Remote, local to regional Keyrock hub locations
About Keyrock
Since our beginnings in 2017, we've grown to be a leading change-maker in the digital asset space, renowned for our partnerships and innovation. Today, we partner with over 180 team members around the world. Our diverse team hails from 42 nationalities, with backgrounds ranging from self-taught DeFi natives to PhDs. Predominantly remote, we have hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore, and host regular online and offline hangouts to keep the crew tight. We are trading on more than 80 exchanges, and working with a wide array of asset issuers. As a well-established market maker, our distinctive expertise led us to expand rapidly. Today, our services span market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks. We’re pioneers in adopting the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading, and champions of its use in the industry. We support the growth of Web3 startups through our Accelerator Program. We upgrade ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols. And we push the industry's progress with our research and governance initiatives. At Keyrock, we're actively building it.
Mission & Role
Mission statement: We are seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to oversee our High-Frequency Trading (HFT) product vertical. This role is critical to our success, focusing on the discovery, design, and delivery of trading systems where every microsecond counts. You will be responsible for driving the product strategy for our HFT systems, ensuring sub-millisecond latency and near-perfect uptime, while balancing aggressive performance goals with robust risk management and regulatory compliance. You will act as the crucial link between our elite trading teams and our world-class engineers, translating complex quantitative needs into a clear, actionable roadmap that directly impacts our P&L and market share.
Responsibilities & Outcomes
* Low-Latency System Leadership: Drive the focus, design, and continuous improvement of HFT systems, ensuring sub-millisecond latency for critical trading operations.
* High-Availability Operations: Be accountable for achieving 99.99% uptime for all critical trading systems and their underlying infrastructure.
* Commercial Impact & Strategy: Shape and drive product activities with a focus on commercial impact, contributing to P&L, market share, and capital efficiency targets.
* Continuous Product Innovation: Lead the discovery, design, and development of trading enhancements and risk monitoring tools.
* Strategic Roadmapping & Communication: Develop and clearly communicate the product roadmap, aligning traders, engineering, and business stakeholders.
* System Resilience & Validation: Oversee stress-testing and integration into back-testing frameworks to validate performance and robustness.
* Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Define and integrate compliance requirements into the product roadmap.
* Market & Vendor Intelligence: Manage relationships with data providers and exchanges; monitor the competitive landscape.
* Stakeholder Nexus: Act as the central communication hub between traders, quants, engineers, and other stakeholders.
Essentials
* Low-Latency Systems Experience: Experience in product management or development of low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
* Quantitative Acumen: Strong analytical skills to understand complex financial models and trading strategies.
* Technical Proficiency: Deep technical understanding of a modern electronic trading system, from market data ingestion to order execution.
* Trading & Risk Management Exposure: Understanding of financial trading principles and risk management in high-stakes environments.
* Proven Product Execution: Track record of translating complex needs into actionable engineering requirements.
Beneficial experience
* Market microstructure knowledge, particularly in crypto markets.
* Genuine passion for digital assets and crypto trading.
* Experience with agile product management with a focus on delivery efficiency.
* Background in software development or infrastructure engineering for real-time or high-performance systems.
* Familiarity with regulatory compliance for financial markets.
* Fintech experience, especially derivatives markets.
Our recruitment philosophy
We value self-awareness in our recruitment process. We seek people who understand themselves and their career goals. The right candidates are crypto enthusiasts who are driven, collaborative, and deliver solid, scalable outcomes.
Why Keyrock?
* Be at the forefront of innovation in digital assets and AI.
* Work on challenging problems with direct business impact.
* A competitive salary package, with benefits depending on engagement type (employee or freelancer).
* Autonomy in time management with flexible hours and the option to work remotely.
* Opportunity to be part of a team pursuing excellence.
As an employer, we are committed to an inclusive, diverse, and non-discriminating work environment. We hire, reward and promote based on merit and performance. Background checks are performed for all potential employees where required by external requirements.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Product Management and Marketing
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