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# Vice President Product Management at Octaura

- **Company:** Octaura
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/octaura/jobs/5200866007

## Job description

Come build what the market has been missing.

Octaura is a technology company transforming how some of the world’s largest, least digitized markets operate. In loans and CLOs, trillions of dollars still move through phones, emails, and PDFs because the right infrastructure hasn’t existed — until now.

We’re applying AI, real-time data, and modern software design to asset classes long overlooked by fintech. Our platforms turn fragmented information into intelligence, manual workflows into automation, and legacy conventions into scalable market infrastructure.

You’ll join a high-impact, collaborative team building the systems these markets need to become more transparent, efficient, and connected.

## The role in a nutshell

As Vice President of Product Management, you will own the strategy and roadmap for Octaura’s trading products, aligning client needs and the evolving market landscape with the company’s business strategy. You will shape how Product operates as GenAI changes the function, with genuine influence over the future operating model and the customer-facing solutions.

You will lead and coach a team of Product Managers and partner closely with clients, executive leadership, go-to-market teams, design and engineering. This role calls for a forward-thinking, evidence-led product leader who can build alignment, make disciplined trade-offs and challenge constructively when needed.

Core responsibilities

- Own, communicate and deliver the product vision, direction and roadmap, connecting company strategy, client workflows, market developments and competitive insight to a coherent product agenda.
- Engage directly with clients, prospects and market participants to understand their objectives, gather feedback and identify underlying needs - with a practical bias toward finding ways to solve problems.
- Help define the future product operating model, including how GenAI can improve discovery, analysis, documentation, decision-making and team effectiveness. This is not an AI-specialist role; it requires informed curiosity and the ability to make GenAI central to the future model.
- Set a forward-looking two to three-year product direction while making disciplined near-term trade-offs across client value, commercial impact, strategic alignment, delivery effort, risk and supporting data.
- Lead, coach and develop the Product team, establishing the outcomes, accountabilities and structure needed to deliver the roadmap through a period of significant change.
- Partner closely with engineering, design, go-to-market teams and executive leadership to turn strategy into clear outcomes, requirements, measures of success and delivered value.
- Use platform, adoption and performance data to validate outcomes, learn from product decisions and continually improve the roadmap and product investment choices.
- Represent Product with credibility in senior internal and external discussions, building alignment and constructively challenging assumptions when evidence supports a different priority.
- Maintain sufficient fluency in product specification and delivery practice to work effectively with teams, while reducing unnecessary emphasis on specification writing in favor of higher-value client-facing discovery and solutioning.

Desired experience

- Proven leadership of product strategy and roadmaps for complex B2B technology products, with the ability to explain the role you personally played in prior product outcomes, what worked, what did not and what you would do differently.
- Open-mindedness, curiosity and comfort operating in an evolving environment where the product model, structure and ways of working are still being shaped.
- A practical understanding of GenAI and its likely impact on product management, together with the willingness to help define an AI-enabled product process. Deep technical AI expertise is not required.
- A strategic, commercially minded product leader who can connect detailed solutioning to a bigger-picture two to three-year direction.
- Ability to challenge thinking at all levels, promote innovation, creative thinking and genuinely influence the direction of the products, solutions and company.
- Outstanding client-facing discovery and communication skills, with the judgment to distinguish a requested feature from the underlying problem.
- Experience leading, coaching and developing Product Managers, and the credibility to build alignment across executive, commercial and technical stakeholders.
- Strong judgment in making difficult trade-offs, using data and evidence while retaining a bias for practical, real-world solutions.
- Financial markets, fintech, electronic trading, capital markets or market-infrastructure experience is valuable but not essential. We welcome transferable experience from technology, pharma and other complex sectors.
- Product specification experience is helpful, but a lengthy specification-writing track record is not the primary measure of fit.

The base pay range for this position in New York is $200,000 - $230,000 annually. Pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Equity and year-end bonus may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Octaura's internal or external careers site. Octaura Work Perks

At Octaura, our people are our most valuable asset, and we are pleased to offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

- Competitive compensation and equity
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Competitive Parental Leave
- Daily breakfast, coffee and snacks in the office
- 90% company-paid healthcare
- Onsite gym & discounted membership

We’re committed to equal opportunity employment

Octaura is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

## About Octaura

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Octaura provides an electronic trading platform and data analytics suite for secondary trading in syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), bringing transparency and efficiency to traditionally opaque credit markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (5 Penn Plaza, Suite 6S)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Brian Bejile (CEO) and Dave Trepanier (co-founders, originated from joint incubation between Bank of America and Citi)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology (Fintech) – specifically electronic trading and data analytics for leveraged loans and structured credit.
- **Target customers**: Financial institutions (B2B) – including dealers, buyside firms (asset managers, hedge funds, banks), and middle/back-office teams. Platform connects dozens of dealers and over 150 buyside firms.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Unlock markets with us” – focused on reducing friction, errors, and opacity in loan and CLO trading.

## Products & Services
- **Octaura Trading Platform (Loans & CLOs)**: A digital platform for electronic execution of syndicated loan and CLO trades, including Bid Wanted in Competition (BWIC) lists, Market List protocol, and CLO list trading. Supports real-time pricing and liquidity metrics.
- **Octaura Intelligence**: Proprietary engine that powers trading platforms and insights with fast, accurate data from the platform plus historical and third-party data.
- **Octaura Liquidity Metrics (OLM)**: Suite of tools to quantify the ease and likelihood of execution across assets, helping traders act decisively.
- **Octaura Pricing**: Data feeds combining proprietary real-time trading data, historical data, and third-party data for up-to-date market views.
- **Octaura Insights Platform (Beta)**: Analytics and visualizations platform providing industry views of loan and CLO market liquidity, real-time pricing, news, and metrics.
- **Market List Protocol**: A workflow that connects sellers directly to dealer and buyside communities, reducing manual errors and time spent on list trading.
- **CLO Lists & Live Feedback Workflow**: Centralized system for managing CLO BWIC lists, notifications, and bids, eliminating spreadsheets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised $46.5M (Series A, raised ~1 year ago as of mid-2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Moody’s, Wells Fargo, OMERS Ventures, and 11 other investors (including Citi as a founding backer).
- **Growth Signals**: Active user base of over 150 buyside firms and dozens of dealers; launched Insights Platform in beta; introduced Live Feedback workflow for CLO BWIC trading; continues to expand trading protocols and data offerings. The platform celebrated its 3-year anniversary in 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in electronic loan/CLO trading**: Built on the combined expertise of two major bank platforms (Citi’s Velocity CLO eBidding and BofA’s Instinct Loan Match), giving it unique institutional credibility.
- **Proprietary data network effect**: Real-time proprietary trading data combined with historical and third-party data creates a high-resolution picture of opaque credit markets that competitors (like iLex) can’t easily replicate.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Leadership team comes from senior trading and technology roles at major banks (Citi, J.P. Morgan, etc.) with decades of experience in the asset class.
- **Integrated workflow**: Covers the entire trade lifecycle – from list creation and pricing to execution and analytics – reducing manual errors and improving efficiency.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand data and analytics offerings**: The beta launch of Octaura Insights and ongoing development of Liquidity Metrics indicate a push to become the go-to data provider for loan and CLO markets.
- **Broaden asset class coverage**: The platform is described as multi-asset class, multi-protocol, suggesting plans to expand beyond loans and CLOs.
- **Increase market adoption**: Grow the buyside and dealer network to deepen liquidity and create network effects.
- **Modernize legacy workflows**: Continue replacing manual spreadsheets and phone-based trading with automated, transparent electronic protocols.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Fast-growing, innovative fintech startup with a mission to transform credit markets. Emphasis on diversity (CEO Brian Bejile has led initiatives for underrepresented groups in finance). Collaborative, trader-led environment.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Roles listed are based in New York City (e.g., Software Engineer, Product Manager), with in-office perks indicating an office-first culture. No explicit remote policy mentioned, but flexible paid time off is offered.
- **Notable perks**: 90% company-paid medical, dental, and vision; onsite gym & discounted memberships; free breakfast Mondays, daily coffee/snacks, free lunch Fridays, weekly happy hour; competitive parental leave; comprehensive wellness program; employee equity; competitive compensation.
- **Engineering culture**: Led by CTO Luis Carballo (former CTO of Cencor, built BIVA stock exchange infrastructure). Focus on cloud-native, multi-asset class platform. Open roles include Software Engineer (full-stack and front-end) and Product Manager.

## Sources
1. [octaura.com](https://octaura.com/)
2. [octaura.com/about/](https://octaura.com/about/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/octaura](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/octaura)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/octaura)

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