Product Project Manager

Recro
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Role Overview

We are seeking a Product Project Manager to drive end-to-end delivery of multi-product digital platforms within the capital markets ecosystem. The role spans RMS/OMS middleware, web, mobile, back-office systems, and open APIs.

The ideal candidate combines a strong understanding of trading workflows with technical systems fluency, cross-functional leadership, and disciplined delivery governance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of features across middleware, APIs, web, mobile, and back-office platforms.
  • Coordinate cross-functional engineering teams across Backend (Golang), Frontend (React), Mobile (Flutter), QA, DevOps, and Infrastructure.
  • Manage integrations with stock exchanges, clearing corporations, and depositories.
  • Conduct impact analysis for regulatory changes and exchange-driven requirements.
  • Define release strategies, dependency mapping, deployment plans, and rollback procedures.
  • Ensure API versioning discipline and backward compatibility across services.
  • Track delivery and reliability metrics, including defect leakage, release quality, incident management, and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
  • Align business priorities with engineering capacity through structured scope and change management.
  • Manage delivery risks, dependencies, escalations, and stakeholder expectations.
  • Ensure timely delivery of critical releases while maintaining platform stability and compliance.Mandatory Requirements
  • Strong understanding of capital markets workflows, including order lifecycle, margining, settlement, and Depository Participant (DP) processes.
  • Technical understanding of distributed systems, APIs, database migrations, and deployment models.
  • Experience managing multi-service product platforms in fintech or capital markets.
  • Proven ability to manage regulatory deadlines and high-risk production releases.
  • Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering, and external entities.
  • Experience coordinating technical teams and driving execution beyond status reporting and Agile ceremonies.Good to Have
  • Experience with high-concurrency, high-availability systems.
  • Knowledge of Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native deployments, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
  • Experience with trading platforms, brokerage systems, RMS/OMS, or exchange integrations.Must-haves
  • Background as a BA: either a current BA who wants to move into product, or someone who moved from BA to PM.
  • Retail capital markets experience: they have worked at a broker or on a trading or broking platform.
  • Knows at least 2–3 broking workflows hands-on: KYC/onboarding, clearing and settlement, MTM, MTF (margin trading), regulatory reporting, or trading/order flow.
  • Writes user stories: has turned business requirements into user stories, BRDs or FRDs that developers worked from.

What We Are Not Looking For

  • Purely ceremony-driven Agile coordinators without delivery ownership.
  • Project Managers without fintech or capital markets platform experience.
  • Candidates whose experience is limited to documentation, reporting, and status tracking.
  • Non-technical project managers without an understanding of system dependencies, APIs, and production releases.Ideal Candidate Profile

A technically strong Product Project Manager with hands-on delivery governance experience in fintech or capital markets platforms. The candidate should understand trading workflows, coordinate multiple engineering teams, manage complex integrations, and confidently own high-risk releases and regulatory-driven changes.

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