Senior Product Associate, Automated Trading - Credit
About the position MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There. We are looking for a Senior Product Associate to join our Automated Trading team with a focus on Credit. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with sales, engineering, quantitative research, QA, and trade support to shape, deliver, and launch high impact trading capabilities. You will guide features from concept to production, ensuring they are delivered with precision, stability, and market leading quality. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast moving, highly technical environment and enjoys the challenge of sitting at the center of a tightly integrated, high-performing, cross-functional team.
Responsibilities
- Translate business, client, and trading needs into clear, actionable requirements.
- Lead the delivery of complex, cross system automated trading features from planning through production by acting as the central point of alignment across engineering, quant, QA, sales, and support.
- Own and refine the product backlog to ensure the highest value work stays front and center.
- Coordinate timelines, dependencies, and release sequencing across teams to keep execution on track.
- Anticipate edge cases and downstream system impacts before they surface.
- Protect production stability by managing release readiness, gating deployments, and partnering closely with QA and engineering.
- Support inflight releases and collaborate with technical teams to mitigate delivery risks.
- Participate in structured testing and release protocols that strengthen reliability and modernize the platform.
- Help track KPIs to measure product performance, value, and ROI.
Requirements
- 3+ years in product, project, or business analysis roles.
- Knowledge of credit markets and trading.
- Strong technical fluency, including SQL, APIs, and FIX message comprehension.
- Comfort working across engineering, quant, QA, and business stakeholders.
- Strong prioritization skills in high‑pressure delivery environments.
- Passion for market structure, and trading technology.
- Ability to leverage GenAI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or equivalent) to accelerate product development.
- Attention to detail, proactivity, humility and a high degree of curiosity.
Benefits
- Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
- Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office. Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
- Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
- Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave
- 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount
- Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
- Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers
- Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
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