Platform And Product Manager

Vice President, Cash Equities Electronic Execution

Citi's Markets business is one of the world's leading global franchises for sales and trading across fixed income, currencies, commodities, and equities. Within this, Citi's Cash Equities platform operates across major financial centres globally, providing institutional clients with sophisticated market access through a combination of high-touch coverage, programme trading, and advanced electronic execution capabilities. Citigroup Global Markets Limited (CGML), Citi's international broker-dealer headquartered in London, acts as a principal hub for equities activity across EMEA and plays a central role in the firm's ambition to grow its prime and execution footprint with the world's leading institutional investors.

This Vice President role sits within Citi's Cash Equities Execution team in London and is focused on the ownership, management, and strategic development of Citi's electronic execution product suite and platform infrastructure. The individual will serve as the connective tissue between trading, technology, quantitative research, and a sophisticated institutional client base — including asset managers, hedge funds, and quant funds — to drive the evolution of execution infrastructure and electronic trading products including Citi's Direct Market Access (DMA), algorithmic trading, and Smart Order Routing capabilities. As Citi continues to invest in its EMEA execution franchise, this is a high-visibility role at the heart of that buildout.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own and drive the product strategy and roadmap for Citi's cash equities electronic execution platform, ensuring alignment with business priorities and client demand.
• Partner with technology, quant research, and trading teams to coordinate production releases, manage go-live processes for new client solutions, and troubleshoot platform issues in co-ordination with production management, network engineers, and application development groups.
• Oversee platform governance and regulatory compliance, ensuring all electronic trading products adhere to applicable obligations including MiFID II market access controls, and maintain a robust risk management and governance framework across the execution product suite.
• Produce and present in-depth analytics on product usage, client trading trends, execution performance, and revenue attribution, leveraging data-driven insights to inform platform investment decisions and enhance client outcomes.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives, acting as business lead for technology projects and coordinating across trading desks — including Programme Trading, High Touch, and Equity Derivatives — to support broader cash equities platform integration and client onboarding.

What We Need From You

• Demonstrated experience in a product management, execution advisory, or platform management capacity within a cash equities trading environment at an investment bank or execution venue; typically 6–10 years of relevant front-office or closely adjacent experience.
• Deep domain expertise in equities electronic execution, including hands-on familiarity with DMA products, execution algorithms, Smart Order Routing, dark pool access, and exchange co-location infrastructure across major EMEA venues.
• Strong technical proficiency, with practical experience using Q/kdb+ and Python for trade data analysis, product performance monitoring, and execution quality analytics; knowledge of FIX Protocol is advantageous.
• Thorough understanding of the EMEA regulatory landscape as it applies to electronic trading, specifically MiFID II requirements including algorithmic trading controls, market access risk management, and systematic internaliser frameworks.
• Proven stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both client-facing and senior internal audiences, and to influence outcomes across a matrixed, global organisation.
• A quantitative undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline from a leading academic institution; CFA or equivalent professional qualification is advantageous but not essential.

What Citi Can Offer You

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources
• Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.

We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. If you are actively working with clients, have a passion for relationships and want to be part of a successful global franchise – then apply today.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime. The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016. Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, Integrity and Reputation
• Financial soundness
• Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.