General Manager, TrendSpider Add-on Marketplace

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As GM of the store, you will own the P&amp;L and be empowered to steer product, marketing, operations, and partnerships for this vertical. You’ll be building an ecosystem.</p><hr><h3>What You’ll Do</h3><ul><li><p>Define and own the strategy, roadmap, KPIs, and P&amp;L for the add-on marketplace</p></li><li><p>Manage the developer onboarding process: application, review, testing, approval, audits</p></li><li><p>Design and run incentives and revenue share models to attract top-tier developers</p></li><li><p>Actively source, recruit, and onboard new developers / quant traders / algorithmic shops</p></li><li><p>Coordinate with marketing to promote store offerings to TrendSpider’s user base (email campaigns, cross-site banners, blog, webinars)</p></li><li><p>Build and maintain automated recommendation systems, discovery features, curated collections</p></li><li><p>Monitor quality, performance, user feedback, and enforce standards</p></li><li><p>Handle payout operations, revenue accounting, refunds, fraud risk, and related financial operations</p></li><li><p>Analyze sales trends, user adoption, bottlenecks, and run experiments to improve conversion</p></li><li><p>Liaise with product / platform teams to ensure add-on integration is seamless and performant</p></li><li><p>Serve as the internal evangelist / champion for the store — both inside the company and externally</p></li></ul><hr><h3>What You Bring</h3><ul><li><p>Prior experience managing a software marketplace, app store, plugin ecosystem, or similar third-party development platform</p></li><li><p>Strong technical literacy (you don’t need to code full time but you must understand APIs, integration risks, performance, security)</p></li><li><p>Proven ability to recruit and manage external developer communities or ecosystems</p></li><li><p>Experience in product marketing / growth: launching, acquiring users or developers, promoting digital products</p></li><li><p>Analytical mindset — able to operate from data (conversion funnels, retention curves, cohort analysis)</p></li><li><p>Bias for execution: resourceful, hands-on, able to own ambiguous problems</p></li><li><p>Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills</p></li><li><p>Comfort with financial operations, revenue share models, contracts</p></li><li><p>Passion for trading / quant / financial tech (strong bonus)</p></li></ul><hr><h3>Success Metrics&nbsp;</h3><ul><li><p>Number of active developers (good quality) onboarded</p></li><li><p>Growth in store revenue (total and per-add-on)</p></li><li><p>Conversion rate of store visits → purchases</p></li><li><p>Retention / usage of purchases over time</p></li><li><p>Quality indicators: average bug rate, refund rate, user satisfaction</p></li><li><p>Developer satisfaction / NPS</p></li><li><p>Operating margins, cash flow from store operations</p></li></ul><hr><h3>Why Join</h3><ul><li><p>You’ll build something high-leverage: every dev you onboard multiplies value</p></li><li><p>Big upside: owning a full P&amp;L within a growing fintech platform</p></li><li><p>Work at the intersection of trading, dev communities, marketplace dynamics — high domain specificity</p></li><li><p>Strong support from core TrendSpider team (product, marketing, design)</p></li><li><p>Fun work environment with potential to make a big impact on a fast growing, innovative startup</p></li></ul><div><hr><h3>Compensation</h3><p>TrendSpider offers generous compensation packages.

Our salaries are based on market rates, experience and capacity. Thus, a wide range is provided. Experience will be a determining factor. Additionally, TrendSpider offers the following benefits:</p><ul><li>Premium PPO and HMO medical, dental and vision insurance nation-wide (US only, with 60% of premiums covered by Company)&nbsp;</li><li>Optional 401K plan (US only)</li><li>Unlimited sick time and PTO / flexible paid time off policy (global)</li><li>Life insurance policy (US only)</li><li>Work from home flexibility&nbsp;</li><li>Flat organizational structure (participate in big decisions no matter what your title is)&nbsp;</li></ul><div><br></div><hr><h3>About TrendSpider</h3><div>TrendSpider is a Chicago-based fintech company specializing in next-generation, automated technical analysis software for traders.

Its patented, award-winning platform brings institutional-level tools—trendline and Fibonacci detection, candlestick and chart pattern recognition, heatmaps, gap and breakout alerts—to retail investors, analysts, hedge funds, RIAs, and corporate trading teams alike.</div><div><br></div><div>By automating the tedious aspects of chart analysis, TrendSpider helps users uncover opportunities more quickly and accurately than manual methods allow. The platform integrates extensive data sources—seasonality, dark-pool and short-volume, earnings, dividends, macroeconomic indicators, even Reddit sentiment—and supports full-fledged strategy testing, real-time scanning, multi-factor alerts, and AI-driven signal tools.</div><div><br></div><div>TrendSpider’s technology is protected under issued U.S.

patents and trademarks. It is a subsidiary of Niche Theory Holdings, LLC, and operates SignalStack LLC, a routing platform for automated order execution.</div></div>", "datePosted" : "2025-10-13 20:42:04 UTC", "employmentType" : "FULL_TIME", "remote" : "false", "hiringOrganization" : { "@type":"Organization", "name":"TrendSpider" }, "jobLocation" : { "@type": "Place", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "", "addressRegion": "Deerfield", "postalCode": "", "addressLocality": "Illinois", "addressCountry": "United States of America" } } } var translation = { 'employer_title': `Designation`, 'employer_company': `Company/Business name`, 'employer_start_date': `Start date`, 'employer_end_date': `End date`, 'employer_is_current': `I currently work here`, 'employer_summary': `Summary`, 'employer_remove': `Remove this employer`, 'education_degree': `Degree`, 'education_field_of_study': `Field of study/major`, 'education_school_name': `Institution/school name`, 'education_start_date': `Start date`, 'education_end_date': `End date`, 'education_is_current': `Currently pursuing`, 'education_grade': `Grade`, 'education_remove': `Remove this degree` };