IEX Group

Project Manager

IEX Group$170K — $190K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in a financial setting
  • Agile project management experience required
  • Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset (JIRA, Confluence) preferred
  • Excellent communication and organization skills
  • Strong problem-solving ability with multi-tasking capability
  • Understanding of regulatory requirements related to data management
  • Familiarity with Regulation NMS is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Communicate project status, risks, and dependencies to various organizational levels
  • Curate and maintain the project roadmap and development lifecycle
  • Capture and prioritize a backlog of business goals and projects
  • Create and manage schedules for deliverables, feeding into the strategic roadmap
  • Run daily stand-ups to gather project statuses and address impediments
  • Enforce compliance with development procedures and policies
  • Assist with planning and budgeting to keep projects within financial limits
  • Coordinate transitions between delivery teams for smooth operations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs)
  • 401K employer match
  • Membership with OneMedical
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Flexible workplace arrangement
  • Employer matching for charitable donations
  • Learning stipend for professional development
  • Commuter benefits included
  • Structured onboarding program
  • Internal mentorship program across departments
  • Inclusive workplace culture
Full Job Description
About the Role

IEX is looking for a driven and experienced Project Manager to guide the development and deployment of mission-critical projects.

You will create and execute processes to streamline workflows and minimize friction for the development team. You will track and stabilize critical projects, resolve roadblocks, and anticipate the team's needs to enable IEX's engineers to focus on the technical problems they are best equipped to solve.

You will collaborate extensively with Engineering, Compliance, Operations, Marketing, Information Security and Executives to ensure that IEX's highest-priority projects produce industry-transforming results.

Your work will be varied based on IEX's changing needs; at times, you will be enlisted to manage a complex project pipeline, coordinate engineering work and schedules, and contribute to internal and external inquiries as needed. This position requires a versatile combination of project management, process optimizations, and creating or maintaining documentation.

In any capacity, you are above all else a leader who does whatever it takes to fix tough problems with order and integrity.

About You
  • Highly organized and proficient in project-related work
  • Highly adaptable to work seamlessly across functions, including cross collaboration with various teams
  • Intellectually curious, with the ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and systems
  • Team player who can motivate colleagues to achieve great results
  • Can drive initiatives independently

What You'll Do
  • Communicate to the various levels of the organization around project status, risks, issues, actions, and dependencies. Ability to synthesize based on the audience is a must
  • Curate and maintain IEX's roadmap and development life cycle, being the steward of the development life cycle framework and creating the structure to iteratively produce better outcomes
  • Capture and prioritize backlog of business goals and associated projects
  • Create and track schedules for a multitude of deliverables, funneling all data into the strategic roadmap
  • Run daily stand ups to capture project statuses, remove impediments and open bridges of communication
  • Promote adherence to strict compliance policies and software development procedures
  • Assisting with planning, budgeting and tracking expenditures to ensure projects remain within the approved financial limits
  • Work with other project managers to ensure smooth transitions between delivery teams

Your Background
  • 5+ years' experience in project management role, having broker-dealer, financial vendor, or experience working at an exchange is a plus
  • Agile project management experience
  • Experience with Atlassian toolset (such as JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Roadmaps) preferred
  • Excellent communication, organization and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to multi-task various projects within targeted timelines
  • Understanding of regulatory requirements relating to data, information retention, and technology infrastructure management
  • Familiarity with Regulation NMS is a plus

Why you should apply
  • Comprehensive Benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs)
  • 401K employer match
  • OneMedical membership
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Flexible workplace
  • Employer charity match
  • Learning stipend
  • Commuter benefits
  • Jump Start onboarding program
  • Internal mentor program cross-departmentally
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting annual base pay is between $170,000 and $190,000 for this NY-based position. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The annual base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for bonus and equity.

About IEX Group

IEX Group is a financial technology company that operates a stock exchange. The company was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating a fairer and more transparent stock market. IEX is known for its unique approach to trading, which includes a 350-microsecond delay on all orders to prevent high-frequency traders from gaining an unfair advantage. The company has been featured in Michael Lewis' book 'Flash Boys' and has gained a reputation as a champion for small investors.
Learn more about IEX Group
Size
124 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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