
Director of Marketplace Growth
TrendSpider LLC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Define and own the strategy, roadmap, KPIs, and P&L for the add-on marketplace
- Manage the developer onboarding process: application, review, testing, approval, audits
- Design and run incentives and revenue share models to attract top-tier developers
- Actively source, recruit, and onboard new developers / quant traders / algorithmic shops
- Coordinate with marketing to promote store offerings to TrendSpider’s user base (email campaigns, cross-site banners, blog, webinars)
- Build and maintain automated recommendation systems, discovery features, curated collections
- Monitor quality, performance, user feedback, and enforce standards
- Handle payout operations, revenue accounting, refunds, fraud risk, and related financial operations
- Analyze sales trends, user adoption, bottlenecks, and run experiments to improve conversion
- Liaise with product / platform teams to ensure add-on integration is seamless and performant
- Serve as the internal evangelist / champion for the store — both inside the company and externally
Requirements
- Prior experience managing a software marketplace, app store, plugin ecosystem, or similar third-party development platform
- Strong technical literacy (you don’t need to code full time but you must understand APIs, integration risks, performance, security)
- Proven ability to recruit and manage external developer communities or ecosystems
- Experience in product marketing / growth: launching, acquiring users or developers, promoting digital products
- Analytical mindset — able to operate from data (conversion funnels, retention curves, cohort analysis)
- Bias for execution: resourceful, hands-on, able to own ambiguous problems
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Comfort with financial operations, revenue share models, contracts
- Passion for trading / quant / financial tech (strong bonus)
Benefits
- Premium PPO and HMO medical, dental and vision insurance nation-wide (US only, with 60% of premiums covered by Company)
- Optional 401K plan (US only)
- Unlimited sick time and PTO / flexible paid time off policy (global)
- Life insurance policy (US only)
- Work from home flexibility
- Flat organizational structure (participate in big decisions no matter what your title is)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
APIsintegrationperformancesecuritydata analysisconversion funnelsretention curvescohort analysisrevenue accountingfraud risk management
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationstakeholder managementanalytical mindsetresourcefulnesshands-on executionproblem-solvingteam leadershipcommunity managementstrategic thinking