Marketplace Business Development Manager
About the Role
TrendSpider is building a growing marketplace of third-party strategies, indicators, scanners, and bots for our users. We're looking for a hands-on operator to help expand this ecosystem - recruiting developers, onboarding their tools, coordinating promotions, and keeping everything running smoothly. You'll work directly with leadership to execute on marketplace growth goals and ensure creators and customers alike have a great experience. Please note: This position is only open to applicants in the United States who are authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to consider resumes from outside of the United States for this role.
What You'll Do
- Source and reach out to potential developers, quant traders, and algorithmic shops to join the marketplace
- Manage the developer onboarding process: application intake, testing coordination, documentation, approvals, and updates
- Coordinate marketing efforts to feature new or high-performing marketplace listings (email, site banners, social, blog, webinars)
- Track store performance metrics, developer activity, and user adoption; prepare regular reports and insights
- Assist with payouts, basic revenue tracking, and issue resolution (refunds, fraud checks, etc.)
- Maintain marketplace listings - descriptions, screenshots, updates - to ensure quality and consistency
- Communicate regularly with developers to provide feedback, answer questions, and ensure ongoing engagement
- Collaborate with internal teams (product, support, marketing) to streamline operations and improve processe
What You Bring
- 2-5 years of experience in business development, account management, partnerships, or marketplace operations
- Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple developer relationships and tasks simultaneously
- Clear, professional communication - both written and verbal
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets, metrics dashboards, and light technical concepts (APIs, integrations)
- Experience with software, fintech, or trading tools a plus
- Analytical mindset - eager to learn from data and improve outcomes
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-moving startup environment
Success Metrics
- Growth in number and quality of onboarded developers
- Smooth onboarding pipeline and positive developer feedback
- Increased marketplace engagement and sales activity
- Reliable reporting and operational follow-through
Why Join
- Be part of a high-growth fintech platform transforming how traders work
- Learn the inner workings of marketplace development from the ground up
- Work directly with senior leadership - small, nimble team, big impact
- Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility
Compensation
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:
- 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)
About TrendSpiderTrendSpider 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. 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. 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. Employment Type: FULL_TIME Apply tot his job Apply To this Job