Chief Product Officer (CPO)The Trading Floor | Fintech, Social Trading & EdTech

Location:
Montréal / Remote Type: Full-time Level: Executive / Leadership About The Trading FloorThe Trading Floor is one of Canada's fastest-growing trading education companies, with thousands of traders in its ecosystem and a rapidly expanding international presence. We're building something much bigger than a trading education platform. Our vision is to create the ultimate social trading ecosystem, eventually evolving into a fully integrated brokerage where users can learn, discover strategies, connect with other traders, and execute trades—all in one place. Today, our platform enables users to:
• Learn to trade: Access trading education, coaching, and resources to develop their skills.
• Discover profitable traders and strategies: Explore trading strategies, analyze trader performance, and learn from experienced traders.
• Connect trading accounts: Integrate brokerage accounts to track, analyze, and share trading activity.
• Share trades and strategies: Connect with other traders, share trades, and participate in a collaborative trading community.
• Monetize trading expertise: Allow eligible profitable traders to earn money by sharing their trades, insights, and strategies with others. Our long-term ambition is to bring education, social trading, strategy discovery, trader monetization, and brokerage execution together into a single global platform, subject to applicable regulatory requirements. We're looking for an exceptional Chief Product Officer who can help turn this vision into a highly engaging, viral, and globally scalable consumer product. The MissionBuild a product that millions of traders love, use daily, and naturally want to share. You will lead our product strategy and help transform The Trading Floor from a fast-growing trading education business into a global fintech and social trading ecosystem. We don't want someone who simply manages a roadmap. We want someone who understands why products go viral, why users return, how network effects develop, and what it takes to achieve Product-Market Fit. Your mission is to create a product where every new trader, every shared strategy, and every new connection makes the platform more valuable for everyone else.

Key Responsibilities
1. Product Strategy & Product-Market Fit
• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Identify and continuously improve Product-Market Fit.
• Conduct user research, customer interviews, and behavioral analysis.
• Identify unmet needs across beginner, intermediate, and professional traders.
• Optimize the user journey from learning to strategy discovery, community engagement, and eventually trade execution.
• Find the product's core Aha Moment and optimize time to value.
• Prioritize features based on customer impact, business value, and growth potential. 2. Virality, Network Effects & Product-Led Growth
• Design organic growth loops directly into the product.




• Develop sharing, referral, and collaboration mechanisms that drive user acquisition.
• Build network effects between traders, strategy creators, and followers.
• Create social features that encourage users to invite and engage with other traders.
• Explore gamification, leaderboards, achievements, challenges, and trader recognition.
• Develop product-driven acquisition strategies that reduce dependency on paid advertising.
• Understand how successful consumer apps generate self-sustaining growth. 3. Retention & User Engagement
• Own user activation, engagement, and retention.
• Build experiences that make the platform valuable as part of traders' daily routines.
• Analyze cohort retention, churn, engagement frequency, and feature adoption.
• Develop personalized onboarding and user experiences.
• Identify and improve the core behaviors associated with long-term retention.
• Apply behavioral psychology and habit-formation principles to create meaningful recurring value. 4. Social Trading & Trader Monetization
• Develop experiences that make discovering and evaluating traders and strategies intuitive.
• Optimize connected-account experiences, trading analytics, and performance tracking.
• Design transparent trader profiles and strategy discovery systems.
• Build community and social trading features.
• Improve how eligible profitable traders can share their expertise and monetize their contributions.
• Design trust, transparency, and risk-awareness features across the ecosystem. 5. Product Analytics & Experimentation
• Establish a data-driven product culture.
• Define and own product KPIs across activation, retention, engagement, virality, and monetization.
• Implement event tracking, cohort analysis, funnel analytics, and user segmentation.
• Lead experimentation and A/B testing.
• Validate product hypotheses through rapid testing.
• Make product decisions based on user insights, evidence, and measurable results. 6. Product Development & Leadership
• Lead product managers and designers while collaborating closely with engineering.
• Work directly with our CTO to turn product strategy into execution.
• Establish efficient product discovery and development processes.
• Balance rapid experimentation with product quality and scalability.
• Build a high-performance product organization.
• Help define the long-term product evolution toward an integrated brokerage experience.



Required ExperienceWe are specifically looking for someone who has already built and scaled successful consumer applications.
• Proven experience building or significantly scaling a viral, high-engagement consumer application.
• Must have personally contributed to the growth of at least one successful consumer product.
• Deep understanding of Product-Market Fit, activation, retention, and engagement.
• Strong knowledge of Product-Led Growth, viral loops, and network effects.
• Demonstrated ability to improve product metrics through measurable initiatives.
• Experience with cohort analysis, experimentation, onboarding optimization, and product analytics.
• Strong understanding of consumer psychology and behavioral product design.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and execute quickly.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with robust ownership and accountability. Strongly Preferred
• Experience scaling consumer products to hundreds of thousands or millions of users.
• Background in fintech, trading, consumer social platforms, marketplaces, gaming, or EdTech.
• Experience building community-driven or creator-monetization products.
• Previous founder, Head of Product, VP Product, or CPO experience.
• Experience taking products from zero to Product-Market Fit. Core Success MetricsCategoryKey MetricsProduct-Market FitPMF score, qualitative feedback, cohort retentionActivationSignup-to-activation rate, time to first valueRetentionD1, D7, D30, D90 retentionEngagementDAU, WAU, MAU, DAU/MAUViralityK-factor, referral conversion, organic user growthSocial TradingConnected accounts, shared trades, trader followsMarketplaceStrategy discovery, creator activation, repeat usageMonetizationPaid conversion, ARPU, LTV Who You AreYou are a product builder, not just a product manager. You've helped create products people genuinely love, and you understand the mechanisms behind their success. You think deeply

about us
er psychology, retention, social interactions, and distribution. You don't build features simply because competitors have them. You identify fundamental user needs and design solutions that deliver measurable value. You understand that the strongest consumer products don't just acquire users—they become more valuable as more people join. Most importantly, you've already demonstrated that you know how to turn a promising product into a highly engaging, organically growing platform. Why Join The Trading Floor?You'll have the opportunity to help build the next generation of trading infrastructure, combining education, social discovery, trader monetization, and eventually brokerage execution. You'll work directly with the founders and engineering leadership, with significant ownership over the company's product direction. Our ambition goes far beyond becoming the largest trading education platform.
• We want to build the platform where the next generation of traders learns, connects, discovers opportunities, develops strategies, and ultimately trades.

📌 Chief Product Officer (Montreal)
🏢 The Trading Floor
📍 Montreal