WHO WE ARE
PEAK6 Capital Management is a proprietary options trading firm that has been defining the industry for more than 25 years. While many firms have come and gone, PEAK6 Capital Management has consistently delivered liquidity to the options market. We thrive due to our firm’s special blend of financial acumen, ability to manage risk, and cutting-edge technology.
Our success is driven by our team of technologists, engineers, and traders who leverage proprietary tech and a data-centric approach to maintain inventory and stay ahead of the markets, so customers can, too.
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 measurable outcome in trader performance, efficiency, or risk.
Decide what gets built, what waits, and what stops, and own the result. Balance a demanding group of stakeholders without becoming an order taker.
Run the roadmap as a set of experiments: name the hypothesis, test the riskiest assumption first, and scale or kill based on evidence.
Build agentic products
Define and ship agents that monitor markets and positions, surface ideas, stage orders, and automate follow-through across OMS, EMS, and risk platforms.
Set the autonomy model: where agents act on their own, where they recommend, where a trader confirms, and what evidence it takes to give a workflow more autonomy.
Design trust into the product: evaluations, guardrails, audit trails, explainability, and clean handoffs between agents and people, in partnership with Risk and Compliance.
Find and remove manual touchpoints across the trade lifecycle, choosing between a process change, an agent, buy or partner, or a new build.
Run an agent-native product team
Build a team that works agent-first, using AI to speed up discovery, prototyping, requirements, testing, and analysis so ideas reach traders in days, not quarters.
Partner with Engineering across the full lifecycle, from initiation and build/buy/partner analysis through design, testing, release, and…