Lead Product Manager - Exchange, Trading in Chicago, Illinois at Crypto.com

We are looking for a Lead Trading Product Manager to own trading product for Exchange in the U.S. — with a sharp mandate on futures and regulated derivatives across DCM and FCM surfaces. Volume, trust, and share of wallet live or die on whether futures traders can open, manage, and close risk without friction — and whether we can ship at the pace a growth-mode FCM demands.

Your mandate is to make U.S. futures trading a default desk for the traders we target: product strategy and roadmap for futures/trading experience, DCM/FCM-aware workflows (listings, margins, order types, lifecycle), cross-functional execution with eng, risk, compliance, and ops, and outcomes that show up in volume, retention, and product velocity.

You will run your roadmap with independence. You make the call on prioritization, tradeoffs, and what ships when the bar isn’t there yet. You report to VP, Exchange Product, who sets Exchange strategy. You own the how and the when.

If you’ve shipped futures product at a DCM, FCM, or exchange — or you’ve lived inside an FCM through a fast-paced growth mode — this will feel familiar. The difference is you’ll be doing it in crypto at Exchange scale, where the rails are still being written and the playbook is yours to own

• DCM and/or FCM futures product experience — or FCM growth-mode operator. You have owned or shipped futures / derivatives product in a DCM or FCM context, or you have worked inside an FCM in a fast-paced growth mode and can walk through what you owned, what broke under scale, and what you did next.
• Lead-level product ownership. You have owned a complex trading or markets product surface end-to-end and can describe a time dependencies broke down — and what you did to still ship.
• Futures / markets fluency. You know contract specs, margins, order types, position lifecycle, and how pros actually trade futures. You can explain what makes futures UX and workflow great vs. frustrating.
• Evidence of shipping under constraint. You can point to a launch where regulatory, clearing, risk, or ops constraints were real — and you still delivered a trader-usable product.
• Cross-functional leadership without title theater. You align eng, risk, compliance, and ops around outcomes. You escalate only what must escalate; you own the rest.
• Data ownership. You instrument your own funnel / volume drivers, size the opportunity, and prioritize without waiting for analysis to be handed to you.

• Prior exchange / brokerage / advanced trading platform PM work (crypto or traditional).
• Institutional or pro-trader product experience.
• Hands-on futures trading (or daily use of the products you ship).
• Experience standing up or scaling U.S.-regulated futures distribution (FCM onboarding, DCM listings, margin products).
• Design sensibility for dense trading UIs — you can evaluate hierarchy, density, and interaction cost with specifics.
• AI-native workflow: you use AI tools to move faster with human-in-the-loop judgmen

• Access. You work directly with Exchange product leadership on U.S. trading. No layers.
• Leverage. Futures and regulated derivatives are a front door to volume and trust — your roadmap compounds across the Exchange.
• Frontier. U.S. crypto futures / FCM-style growth is still being written. The playbook is yours to own.
• Upside. Early ownership on trading surfaces that sit on the critical path of volume, retention, and share of wallet.
• Team. High-calibre eng, risk, and compliance partners who care whether traders can actually execute — not just whether a ticket closed.