What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Product Manager position at Cantor Fitzgerald?
Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Partner with broking desks and business stakeholders to document needs, pain points, and enhancement opportunities across rates and credit products
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements
- Maintain the product backlog and support prioritization discussions with senior product managers
- Serve as the day‑to‑day liaison between broking desks, developers, and QA to ensure smooth delivery
- Track deliverables, dependencies, and risks, escalating blockers to senior product managers when needed
- Support release readiness activities, including documentation, training materials, and rollout communications
- Review QA test scenarios and validate business logic for credit and rates workflows
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end users and ensure timely sign‑offs
- Analyze usage and workflow data to identify improvement opportunities such as liquidity, pricing, trade capture quality, and exception rates
- Assist with metrics reporting, including feature adoption, workflow performance, and issue trends
- Strong understanding of Fixed Income markets across Rates and Credit
- Solid knowledge of government bonds such as Treasuries, Gilts, and EGBs, as well as inflation‑linked bonds like TIPS and Linkers
- Credit market experience in at least one area:
- Corporate Bonds (Investment Grade / High Yield)
- Emerging Markets Bonds (sovereign and/or corporate)
- Working knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives including IRS, OIS, FRA, basis swaps, swaptions, and caps/floors
- Working knowledge of Credit Derivatives including single‑name CDS and CDS indices
- Understanding of key lifecycle events such as coupons, rolls, and credit events at a workflow level
- Understanding of essential pricing and risk concepts: price vs. yield, yield‑to‑maturity, DV01, and their use in trading workflows
- Awareness of credit‑specific fundamentals including spread, clean vs. dirty price, and settlement conventions at a workflow level
- Familiarity with common trading structures such as switches, flies, basis trades, and spread switches
- Knowledge of trading protocols including central limit order books (CLOB) and basic auction mechanisms
- (Optional) Exposure to implied trading and legging strategies
- Strong Excel skills (advanced formulas; comfort working with large datasets).
- Working knowledge of SQL for querying data (Oracle, Sybase, or NoSQL exposure helpful).
- Basic-to-intermediate Python for analysis (Pandas/Matplotlib) in Jupyter/Colab preferred.
- Comfortable capturing requirements and delivery tracking in Confluence and Jira.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a product, business analyst, or delivery role within:
- Fixed income and/or credit trading platforms, e-trading venues, interdealer brokerage, market infrastructure, or adjacent capital markets technology.
- Demonstrated experience working with:
- Front-office users (traders/brokers/sales), technology teams, and QA.
- Personal Attributes
- Clear communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with numbers and trading concepts.
- Proactive, takes initiative, and thrives in fast-paced environments.
- Collaborative mindset with a bias toward execution and problem-solving.