Head of Product - Asian Timezones

As Head of Product at hermeneutic research, you will build the product function from the ground up for a proprietary trading firm. You'll work with traders and researchers to understand their workflows, translate their needs into clear requirements, and guide engineering to build the internal systems that power their high-conviction decision-making. This is a founding role: you start hands-on, sitting directly with practitioners, and scale into leading a small product team as the scope grows.

What you'll do

• Spend significant time with traders and researchers to understand real decisions, workflows, investigations, datasets, and pain points.
• Distinguish stated feature requests from underlying practitioner needs.
• Translate trading and research workflows into product opportunities, clear requirements, and buildable product decisions.
• Write clear product requirements for internal systems, workflows, data products, analytics, and decision-support tools.
• Partner closely with engineering to shape feasible, scalable solutions and surface technical trade-offs early.
• Prioritize product work based on expected trading, research, operational, or risk impact.
• Define success measures for product work, including faster research cycles, better data quality, reduced manual work, improved decision confidence, risk reduction, stronger adoption, or measurable PnL contribution.
• Defend foundational work such as data quality, lineage, reliability, and platform architecture when it is more important than a visible front-end feature.
• Evaluate external data providers and tooling vendors, including API quality, coverage, latency, reliability, cost, and integration complexity.
• Establish product rituals, documentation standards, and feedback loops.
• Build the product discipline for the firm by defining how you discover problems, capture requirements, write specifications, review trade-offs, measure adoption, and close the feedback loop with users.
• Own the roadmap for internal trading and research systems in partnership with the CIO, engineering, trading, and research leadership, balancing immediate practitioner pain points with longer-term platform foundations.
• Ensure internal systems are built for trust, with data lineage, source transparency, explainable calculations, and human-in-the-loop decision-making as default product principles.
• Act as connective tissue between trading, research, engineering, and management, surfacing trade-offs clearly and helping the firm make better prioritization decisions.
• Advise the CIO on product priorities, practitioner needs, product-engineering trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Hire and lead a small product team once the scope requires it.

What you bring

• 10+ years of product management experience, including senior product leadership in complex, technical, data-intensive environments.
• Experience building or scaling a product function, including hiring product managers, setting standards, and managing product work across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience with internal platforms, expert-user workflows, trading systems, research tooling, market data, financial technology, data infrastructure, or similarly complex product environments.
• The ability to work with highly specialized users, understand their workflows deeply, and translate ambiguous needs into clear product decisions.
• Strong technical and data fluency: you can query data, inspect unfamiliar datasets, sanity-check quality, and work closely with engineers on architecture and trade-offs.
• Excellent requirements-writing ability: you produce specifications that are faithful to the user problem, clear enough for engineering, and tied to a business or workflow outcome.
• Strong product judgment: you know when to challenge a request, when to gather more evidence, when to escalate a trade-off, and when to commit once a decision is made.
• Clear written communication: you can document important decisions, requirements, and trade-offs in a firm with a strong writing culture.
• The ability to move quickly without becoming sloppy, keeping pace with trading and research cycles while maintaining rigor in a real-money environment.
• Independent judgment and the ability to disagree well: you can make constructive arguments with evidence, remain calm under pressure, and align behind a decision once it is made.

Nice to have

• Experience at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, quant manager, market maker, crypto trading firm, or financial data and platform company.
• Familiarity with crypto markets, including spot, perpetuals, funding rates, liquidity, on-chain data, unlock schedules, block explorers, and market microstructure.
• Experience evaluating market data, on-chain data, alternative data, or other third-party data providers.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Familiarity with research, analytics, risk, execution, portfolio, or monitoring workflows.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, notebooks, analytics tools, or similar ways of investigating data directly.

About hermeneutic research

hermeneutic research is a proprietary trading firm that deploys research-driven discretionary and systematic strategies and makes strategic long-term investments. The firm is built on a decade-long history of success in trading and business building, with a firm-wide cultural emphasis on alpha generation, open debate, relentless iteration, teamwork, and risk management.