Product Manager, Curves | Data/ Product & Energy & Trading (Vancouver, CAN or London, UK)

Location: Vancouver, CAN or London, UK

(Please note that we are only considering candidates currently based in Vancouver or London. Applications from other locations will not be reviewed)

Position Type: Full-time, Permanent

Work model: Hybrid (8 days in office per month)

Industry: Energy Data, Commodities & Financial Technology (FinTech)

Visa Sponsorship: Not available

About us:

Founded in 1995, Zema Global Data Corporation empowers organizations to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results. Over the past two years, Zema Global has accelerated its growth through strategic investment and acquisition to strengthen our global leadership. Together we’re helping our customers gain a Decisioning Advantage – one bold idea at a time. With a presence across global energy, commodity, and financial markets, Zema Global empowers customers to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and make faster, more confident decisions that drive measurable results.

At Zema Global, we Think Big, Make It Happen, and Win as One. We thrive on collaboration, creativity, and respect, united by a shared drive to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for our customers and communities. If you’re inspired by solving complex challenges and contributing to a culture that values purpose and performance, we invite you to join us.

Position overview:

The Product Manager, Curves is a domain-focused product role responsible for contributing to the strategy, development, and delivery of curve data capabilities across Zema Global’s Enterprise and Marketplace products. Working within a broader product team, this individual will take ownership of specific areas of the curves roadmap - focused on curve automation, integration, and governance - while developing a deep understanding of how clients build and depend on trusted curve data across their physical and financial trading operations.

This role is well suited to a product professional who is eager to develop specialized expertise at the intersection of energy and commodities markets, data management, and trading workflows. The Product Manager, Curves will collaborate closely with engineering, data operations, and client-facing teams, and will grow into a meaningful voice on how Zema Global supports clients in establishing curves as a reliable, governed source of truth within their organizations.

This is not a generic Product Manager role, it sits at the core of how we help clients structure, trust and operationalise critical market data used in trading and risk decisions.

What You'll Be Doing

Curves Roadmap Contribution

• Own specific, defined areas of the curves product roadmap within Zema Enterprise and Zema Marketplace, contributing to a broader roadmap led by senior product leadership.

• Develop a strong understanding of end-to-end curve workflows - from source data acquisition through construction, validation, publication, and consumption - to inform your areas of ownership.

• Work with senior product and engineering leaders to prioritize investments that deliver client value and advance Zema Global’s capabilities in the curves domain.

• Build product knowledge across a wide range of commodity markets and curve types, developing breadth as a distinguishing strength in the role.

Curve Automation & Integration

• Define requirements for automated curve construction and validation workflows, with a focus on reducing manual effort and increasing reliability for clients.

• Document integration needs between Zema’s curve capabilities and external data sources - including exchanges, brokers, and price reporting agencies.

• Collaborate with engineering on transformation logic requirements: interpolation, extrapolation, blending, and other curve calculation methodologies.

• Identify opportunities to improve how curve data flows across the Zema platform, from Marketplace ingestion through Enterprise storage and into downstream client systems.

Curve Governance & Source of Truth Development

• Contribute to Zema Global’s ongoing effort to support clients in establishing governed, reliable curve data - working toward a model where Zema plays a central role in clients’ source-of-truth infrastructure.

• Help define and deliver governance features: curve versioning, audit trails, approval workflows, override tracking, and data lineage.

• Support the development of data quality frameworks that allow clients to detect and resolve curve anomalies with confidence.

• Engage with clients to understand how curve governance intersects with their internal risk policies, valuation processes, and control requirements.

Commodity Coverage & Market Knowledge

• Develop working familiarity with curve conventions and market structures across a broad range of energy and commodities markets — including power, natural gas, crude oil, refined products, NGLs, LNG, agricultural commodities, metals, and environmental products.

• Help identify gaps in Zema Global’s curve coverage and work with data operations and partnership teams to surface and prioritize opportunities to close them.

• Build understanding of the data vendor landscape - price reporting agencies, exchanges, and proprietary sources and how they feed into Zema’s curve capabilities.

• Grow into an internal resource on commodity curve standards, conventions, and client use cases over time.

Customer Engagement

• Participate in client discovery sessions, pilots, and beta programs to gather feedback on curve capabilities and validate product direction.

• Support Sales and Customer Success in conversations where curve features are relevant to a deal or renewal.

• Translate client feedback and requirements into clear product specifications for engineering teams.

• Develop relationships with trading, risk, and middle-office contacts at client organizations to build domain context over time.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering on requirements, delivery, and acceptance criteria for curve-related features.

• Coordinate with Data Operations on source onboarding standards, normalization, and data quality monitoring.

• Collaborate with product peers across Zema Global to understand how curve data interacts with Enterprise, Marketplace, and analytics workflows.

• Partner with Marketing and Sales on messaging for curve-related capabilities as needed.

What You'll Bring

Essential

• 3+ years of product management, market data, trading operations, or equivalent experience in an energy, commodities, or financial markets context.

• Foundational understanding of price curves and their role in commodity trading and risk management.

• Familiarity with at least one energy or commodities market - power, natural gas, oil, or related.

• Comfort working with data-intensive products and collaborating with engineering teams on technical requirements.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document requirements precisely and engage clients and stakeholders effectively.

• Curiosity and a genuine interest in developing deep domain expertise in energy and commodities data.

Desirable

• Exposure to curve management, ETRM/CTRM platforms, or market data systems (e.g., Zema, Morningstar, Refinitiv, Bloomberg).

• Understanding of curve governance concepts: versioning, audit trails, override workflows, and valuation controls.

• Familiarity with price reporting agencies and data vendors: ICE, CME, Platts, Argus, ICIS, or similar.

• Experience in a trading, risk, or middle-office function at an energy or commodities firm.

• Background in data operations, quantitative methods, or market data management.

How success is measured:

• Automation Progress. Delivery of curve automation features that reduce manual effort and increase reliability for clients in assigned roadmap areas.

• Coverage Contribution. Meaningful input into expanding Zema Global’s curve coverage across commodity markets.

• Governance Delivery. Successful delivery of governance features that clients adopt as part of their data control environment.

• Client Engagement. Active, productive relationships with client stakeholders that inform product direction and support commercial outcomes.

• Domain Growth. Demonstrated deepening of expertise in energy and commodities curve markets over time.

Why Join Zema Global?

• Global Impact

Shape the future of energy, commodities, and financial markets through innovative technology.

• Innovation at Scale

Work with cutting-edge software, advanced analytics, and complex data that solve real-world challenges.

• Career Growth

Join a fast-growing global organization where your ideas, development, and career progression are valued.

• Exceptional People

Collaborate with talented colleagues and industry experts across North America, Europe, and Asia.

• Meaningful Ownership

Take ownership of your work, influence strategic initiatives, and make a measurable impact on our customers and business.

• One Global Team

Be part of a collaborative culture built on trust, respect, and our values: Think Big. Make It Happen. Win as One.

 

Application Information

Please submit your English CV in PDF format. If your experience aligns with our requirements, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you regarding the next steps.

 

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

 

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Zema Global is committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background or protected characteristic.