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Provides administrative support to senior executives by managing complex calendars, coordinating communications, handling expenses, organizing leadership meetings and events, anticipating business needs, and supporting executive visitors. The role requires exceptional organization, discretion, communication, adaptability, business judgment, and cross-functional collaboration. Candidates need at least five years of experience supporting C-suite or senior executives in a fast-paced environment.

Leads NinjaTrader’s visual and creative direction across marketing. The role operationalizes and governs the brand identity system, directs integrated campaigns and storytelling, owns marketing web and lifecycle creative, and serves as the final quality gate for brand expression. Responsibilities include hiring and developing an in-house design team, managing agencies and freelancers, building scalable creative processes, partnering with product and performance marketing, and ensuring compliance in a regulated environment. The director remains hands-on in concepting, design, writing direction, and video production.

Provides front-line phone and email support to NinjaTrader clients, resolving account, platform, technical, and treasury-related issues. Educates customers on trading products and services, manages client data in Salesforce, collaborates with trade desk, technical support, and compliance teams, and communicates emerging needs. The role also supports policy improvements, knowledge articles, email templates, software beta testing, and customer experience initiatives.

Own end-to-end quality for a web trading product squad by defining test strategies, building Playwright automation in TypeScript or JavaScript, integrating tests into CI/CD, and improving test reliability. Partner with engineers and product managers on testability, architecture, and acceptance criteria. Perform exploratory testing, apply AI-assisted QA tools, maintain shared frameworks, and mentor junior QA team members.

Architects and optimizes high-volume database platforms supporting trading applications. Responsibilities include MySQL schema design, SQL and query optimization, migrations, scalability, reliability, observability, production issue resolution, developer tooling, and database architecture. The role partners with engineering and platform teams, leads technical initiatives, establishes database best practices, mentors engineers, and uses Google Cloud services to improve performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Administer and configure the Salesforce org, including users, permissions, objects, record pages, layouts, flows, validation rules, reports, and dashboards. Manage data imports, exports, cleanup, and integrity using Data Loader. Resolve admin requests, document changes, follow deployment practices, diagnose routine issues, and collaborate with analysts, developers, and stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions while expanding Salesforce expertise.

Architect and own NinjaTrader’s foundational dbt data-model layer, establish modeling standards, and manage paid-media attribution. Develop AI-driven reporting, data-quality automation, agentic workflows, and self-service knowledge tools. Partner with Data and MarTech teams, prevent pipeline issues, scale models across business units and geographies, and mentor teammates while applying marketing measurement concepts such as CAC, LTV, and ROAS.

Drive the Core Platform web product roadmap and own trading experiences including order entry, charting, account management, and navigation. Partner with engineering, design, and product leadership to sequence quarterly priorities, deliver polished and accessible interfaces, understand trader needs, and use product metrics to guide prioritization and continuous improvement. The role requires strong trading-domain knowledge, analytical ability, cross-functional collaboration, and ownership of platform features.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of the FCM platform, ensuring financial correctness and system integrity, while modernizing systems and improving operational tooling.

Design, evolve, and optimize Scala-based, low-latency trading services. Lead architecture for scalability and performance, tune JVM/Akka systems, enhance observability, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating cross-functionally to support 24x7 high-volume trading.