Product Manager – Systematic Trading Platform
A product-ownership role for the equity trading and analytics platform inside Fidelity Capital Markets, sitting between traders, data scientists and technologists. It leans on transaction cost analysis and market microstructure knowledge to improve the brokerage's execution products.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Analyse execution data and transaction costs to find ways to cut clients' trading costs
- Set the roadmap for upgrading trading infrastructure and data pipelines
- Track platform capacity and plan headroom for real-time and historical workloads
- Coordinate delivery of enhancements across business, quant and technology teams
- Help resolve production incidents and validate out-of-hours system upgrades
What they ask for
Required
- Transaction cost analysis (TCA)
- US equity market structure and microstructure
- Trading algorithm knowledge
- Python
- KDB/q
- Snowflake and AWS
- Project and stakeholder coordination
Preferred
- Series 7, 57 and 63 licences (obtained after joining)
- Education
- Bachelor's in engineering, computer science, applied maths or another quantitative discipline
- Experience
- Experience in systematic trading and TCA; exact years not stated
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Run a TCA study on public trade and quote data, measuring slippage against arrival price and VWAP
- Learn US equity market structure: venues, order types, routing and fees
- Practise time-series queries in KDB+/q and Python on tick data
- Write a short product-style memo proposing one execution-quality improvement with supporting numbers
What to study
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Python and Data Primer
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Fidelity Investments and doesn’t handle applications.