[Hiring] Head of Product @GoCharting

Role Description

This is the first product leadership hire. A product manager is now in place — owning the trading/backend product — but there is no product strategy, process, QA, or design function yet, and the CEO (co-founder, technical) has driven product direction to date. Your mission: own GoCharting's product strategy and execution end-to-end across all markets. Build the product function on top of that first PM. Ship measurable improvements while establishing the roadmap and processes for 10x growth. Define and ship AI-powered product capabilities. You report directly to the CEO.

What you'll do

• 40% — Product Strategy & Roadmap
  • Audit the current product: what works, what's broken, what's missing.
  • Talk to users, review Trustpilot/Discord/support tickets, analyze usage data.
  • Conduct deep competitive analysis: web charting (TradingView), desktop orderflow (Sierra Chart, Bookmap, ATAS, Jigsaw), platforms (Quantower, NinjaTrader).
  • Produce a 12-month product roadmap with a clear prioritization framework.
  • Own product strategy globally with a US-first focus for growth.
  • Define the AI/automation product strategy: embedded assistive AI for microstructure interpretation, review, supervision, and partner intelligence.
• 30% — Execution & Shipping
  • Work with engineering to spec, prioritize, and ship.
  • Write detailed PRDs that engineers can execute against.
  • Ship at least one high-visibility product improvement in the first 90 days.
  • Define and ship at least one AI-powered feature within Year 1.
  • Own the quality bar: establish QA processes, acceptance criteria, release standards.
  • Drive Trustpilot score improvement through targeted fixes to top user complaints.
• 20% — Team Building
  • Hire and onboard the remaining product roles — QA (Manual, Senior), QA (Automated, Middle), Product Designer (Senior, EU/US).
  • Develop the product manager already in seat.
  • Own JDs, screening, interviews, and onboarding for product hires.
  • Establish team rituals, workflows, and engineering collaboration patterns.
• 10% — Process & Infrastructure
  • Establish PRD/spec workflows that engineering actually uses.
  • Build user feedback loops: systematic collection, analysis, prioritization.
  • Define product metrics and analytics.
  • Set up QA processes: test plans, regression coverage, release gates.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management, with 5+ years at a trading or charting platform, or trading-adjacent fintech.
• Must have shipped product in the orderflow/charting/market-data space — not general fintech.
• Knows what footprint charts, volume profile, DOM, and cumulative delta are.
• Has shipped AI/ML-powered product features.
• Product-technical. Reads API specs. Understands websockets vs REST.
• Has built a product team or function from scratch (or near-scratch).
• Comfortable in early-stage, build-from-scratch environments.
• Day-1 delivery mindset.
• EU/UK timezone.

Requirements

• Prior experience at a PE-backed or VC-backed company during a scale-up phase.
• Background at Sierra Chart, Bookmap, NinjaTrader, Quantower, Trading Technologies, CQG, or comparable trading-technology platform.
• Experience with both US and Indian/Asian markets.
• Familiarity with the CME ecosystem and US futures/options markets.
• Has managed through rapid team scaling (10→50+ people).
• Freemium B2C SaaS conversion-optimisation experience.

Logistics

• EU/UK timezone, fully remote.
• Full-Time (via EOR).
• No travel / light at start, reassessed as team scales — occasional Chennai (engineering), US (partners, conferences), EU (leadership).
• Start date ASAP.