EU MiFID Product Owner
Bybit
About Us
Established in March 2018, Bybit is one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, with more than 70 million registered users. We offer a professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service and multilingual community support. We provide innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world, and strive to be the most reliable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.
Our core values define us. We listen, care, and improve to create a faster, fairer, and more humane trading environment for our users. Our innovative, highly advanced, user-friendly platform has been designed from the ground-up using best-in-class infrastructure to provide our users with the industry's safest, fastest, fairest, and most transparent trading experience. Built on customer-centric values, we endeavour to provide a professional, 24/7 multi-language customer support to help in a timely manner.
As of today, Bybit is one of the most trusted, reliable, and transparent cryptocurrency derivatives platforms in the space.
Role Overview
The MiFID Product Owner is responsible for building and executing the EU MiFID product roadmap, including regulated investment and derivatives products such as futures, perpetuals, options, CFDs, and structured products. This role ensures all product mechanisms, risk models, and user flows are designed fully aligned with the MiFID II regulatory framework, UK/EU best practices, and the firm’s internal compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
MiFID Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Develop and own the EU MiFID product roadmap, including product prioritization, feature scoping, compliance gating, and launch plan.
- Translate MiFID II regulatory requirements into clear product design specifications.
- Benchmark EU competitors (Binance, OKX, Bitget, KuCoin, European brokers) and propose innovation opportunities.
Derivatives Product Mechanism Design
Design full trading mechanisms for:
- Futures and Perpetual: margin models, funding rates, security pool, liquidation engine parameters.
- Options: contract specs, pricing logic, settlement rules
- CFD: leverage rules, underlying assets, exposure caps.
- Structured products: autocallable, dual-currency, yield structures under MiFID constraints.
Lead for liquidity building for these products
Compliance-by-Design Product Architecture
- Embed MiFID obligations into the product architecture:
- Client categorization (retail/professional/eligible counterparty)
- Appropriateness & suitability tests
- EMT disclosure and KID/KIIDs
- Best execution policies
- Product governance (target market, distribution channel controls)
- Conflict-of-interest guardrails
- Work closely with Compliance and Legal to validate every product feature.
Risk Management & Control Framework
- Design risk procedures, including exposure limits, real-time margin risk, leverage caps, risk alerts, and circuit breakers.
- Coordinate with Risk and Treasury to define:
- VaR/LVaR framework
- Stress testing
- Pricing risk control
- Liquidity provision and hedging strategies
- Build monitoring dashboards for EU MiFID entity.
Project Management & Cross-functional Delivery
- Lead the product lifecycle from ideation → regulatory mapping → BRD → design → build → launch.
- Coordinate with Tech, Risk, Ops, Compliance, Marketing and EU Leadership teams.
- Ensure product readiness for regulatory audits and supervisory inspections.
Professional skills
- More than 5 years of futures trading experience, familiar with mainstream exchange rules and futures contract details (order placement, modification, withdrawal, matching, trading and forced liquidation)
- Proficient in cross-exchange arbitrage related trading strategies (basis/spot structure arbitrage, etc.)
- Proficient in python, with strategy backtesting, data analysis, algorithm optimization and formulation capabilities
- Good breadth across different products including derivatives, futures, options, structured products, forex, CFD and other Tradfi products
Soft qualities
- Excellent logical thinking and fast learning ability, independent problem solving
- Excellent cross-departmental communication skills, able to coordinate quantitative and risk control teams to solve complex problems
Experience requirements
- More than 5 years of derivatives trading experience, proficient in contract trading rules (such as index, mark price, opening and closing mechanism, position limit, margin calculation and liquidation mechanism)
- Bilingual in both English and Mandarin
- Experienced in the full life cycle delivery process of exchange derivatives
- Experienced in dealing with extreme black swan events (such as LUNA collapse, exchange downtime), able to independently complete risk plan mechanism
Why Join Us
At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment.
Our benefits include:
- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.
About Us
Established in March 2018, Bybit is one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, with more than 70 million registered users. We offer a professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service and multilingual community support. We provide innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world, and strive to be the most reliable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.
Our core values define us. We listen, care, and improve to create a faster, fairer, and more humane trading environment for our users. Our innovative, highly advanced, user-friendly platform has been designed from the ground-up using best-in-class infrastructure to provide our users with the industry's safest, fastest, fairest, and most transparent trading experience. Built on customer-centric values, we endeavour to provide a professional, 24/7 multi-language customer support to help in a timely manner.
As of today, Bybit is one of the most trusted, reliable, and transparent cryptocurrency derivatives platforms in the space.
Role Overview
The MiFID Product Owner is responsible for building and executing the EU MiFID product roadmap, including regulated investment and derivatives products such as futures, perpetuals, options, CFDs, and structured products. This role ensures all product mechanisms, risk models, and user flows are designed fully aligned with the MiFID II regulatory framework, UK/EU best practices, and the firm’s internal compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
MiFID Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Develop and own the EU MiFID product roadmap, including product prioritization, feature scoping, compliance gating, and launch plan.
- Translate MiFID II regulatory requirements into clear product design specifications.
- Benchmark EU competitors (Binance, OKX, Bitget, KuCoin, European brokers) and propose innovation opportunities.
Derivatives Product Mechanism Design
Design full trading mechanisms for:
- Futures and Perpetual: margin models, funding rates, security pool, liquidation engine parameters.
- Options: contract specs, pricing logic, settlement rules
- CFD: leverage rules, underlying assets, exposure caps.
- Structured products: autocallable, dual-currency, yield structures under MiFID constraints.
Lead for liquidity building for these products
Compliance-by-Design Product Architecture
- Embed MiFID obligations into the product architecture:
- Client categorization (retail/professional/eligible counterparty)
- Appropriateness & suitability tests
- EMT disclosure and KID/KIIDs
- Best execution policies
- Product governance (target market, distribution channel controls)
- Conflict-of-interest guardrails
- Work closely with Compliance and Legal to validate every product feature.
Risk Management & Control Framework
- Design risk procedures, including exposure limits, real-time margin risk, leverage caps, risk alerts, and circuit breakers.
- Coordinate with Risk and Treasury to define:
- VaR/LVaR framework
- Stress testing
- Pricing risk control
- Liquidity provision and hedging strategies
- Build monitoring dashboards for EU MiFID entity.
Project Management & Cross-functional Delivery
- Lead the product lifecycle from ideation → regulatory mapping → BRD → design → build → launch.
- Coordinate with Tech, Risk, Ops, Compliance, Marketing and EU Leadership teams.
- Ensure product readiness for regulatory audits and supervisory inspections.
Professional skills
- More than 5 years of futures trading experience, familiar with mainstream exchange rules and futures contract details (order placement, modification, withdrawal, matching, trading and forced liquidation)
- Proficient in cross-exchange arbitrage related trading strategies (basis/spot structure arbitrage, etc.)
- Proficient in python, with strategy backtesting, data analysis, algorithm optimization and formulation capabilities
- Good breadth across different products including derivatives, futures, options, structured products, forex, CFD and other Tradfi products
Soft qualities
- Excellent logical thinking and fast learning ability, independent problem solving
- Excellent cross-departmental communication skills, able to coordinate quantitative and risk control teams to solve complex problems
Experience requirements
- More than 5 years of derivatives trading experience, proficient in contract trading rules (such as index, mark price, opening and closing mechanism, position limit, margin calculation and liquidation mechanism)
- Bilingual in both English and Mandarin
- Experienced in the full life cycle delivery process of exchange derivatives
- Experienced in dealing with extreme black swan events (such as LUNA collapse, exchange downtime), able to independently complete risk plan mechanism
Why Join Us
At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment.
Our benefits include:
- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.