VP, Product

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The VP, Product owns the product roadmap for PEAK6 Capital Management and is accountable for what it delivers: the platforms, tools, and, more and more, the AI agents our trading desk relies on every day. Our traders work in fast-moving markets. They expect products that are fast, reliable, and built to give them an edge. We obsess over adoption, and we measure success by the performance and efficiency gains our products create, not by features shipped.

We are moving from software that traders operate to systems that work alongside them. These are agents that watch markets and positions, surface ideas with context, prepare trades, handle the operational follow-through, and learn from outcomes, while people stay in control of the decisions that matter. This role leads that shift. You will decide where agents earn autonomy, where humans stay in the loop, and how trust is built, measured, and expanded over time. You will also run the product team as an agent-native organization, where research, prototypes, and specs that used to take weeks now take days.

Our ideal candidate is a curious, opinionated product leader who takes risks and makes the call when the answer is not obvious. They form strong views, back them with data, and keep things moving. They treat the roadmap as a portfolio of bets and experiments rather than a queue of requests. They lead a lean team, stay close enough to the work to roll up their sleeves, and get their energy from building rather than maintaining.

This role is built to grow. You start by running product and building systems for Capital Management. As the model proves out, your scope expands across PEAK6, with direct or dotted-line leadership of product across other PEAK6 businesses. You will bring the agentic playbook built here to the rest of the firm.

This role reports to the CTO and can be based in our Chicago, New York City, or Austin offices, with a preference for Chicago.

What you’ll do

Set direction and own the call

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the trading desk, and tie every major bet to a