Senior Product Manager, Core TA & Corporate Actions

We’re building the next generation of capital-markets infrastructure, starting with a modern, digital-native transfer agent designed for today’s public companies.

Vinyl Equity is transforming one of the most legacy-heavy and operationally critical parts of the capital markets by delivering the first API-driven, real-time infrastructure for public companies. Our platform replaces slow, manual processes with secure, automated workflows that help issuers operate faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence.

We’re backed by leading investors including Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Infinity Ventures, and others who have funded many of the world’s most impactful financial-technology companies. Our team draws from deep experience at NYSE, Equiniti, Computershare, and AngelList, giving us a unique understanding of the industry’s pain points — and how to solve them.

We have a massive market, a well-defined customer, and strong momentum. With demand accelerating and new product lines on the horizon, there’s never been a better time to join.

Core Transfer Agency is the foundation everything else at Vinyl is built on. Every transfer, every issuance, every cancellation, every restricted-security removal, every dividend, every distribution, every tender offer, every warrant exercise — every event that moves a share or distributes value to a holder flows through this surface. It is the part of Vinyl that customers touch every single day, and it is the part of the platform where the difference between a modern transfer agent and a legacy one becomes most visible to issuers and their counsel.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with deep transfer-agency and corporate-actions domain experience to own this surface end-to-end. This is not a coordinator role. It is a domain-leader role for someone who has personally operated TA and corporate-actions workflows at depth — at an incumbent transfer agent, a clearing firm, a custodian, a broker-dealer back office, or a comparable capital-markets infrastructure operator — and who knows SEC 17Ad-17, Schedule TO mechanics, DEF 14A timing, DTC settlement workflows, escheatment, restricted-securities removal, and the legal-counsel and broker workflows around all of them from lived experience, not handoff documentation.

On Core TA you own transfers, issuances, cancellations, holder management, DRS and DWAC, restricted-security removal, and the Vinyl Signature Guarantee — the daily flow of cap-table changes that issuers and shareholders rely on. On Corporate Actions you own dividends and distributions, spinoffs, escheatment, tax filings, and the connected lifecycle of every event a public company executes that touches its shareholders. You also own Tender Offer and Warrant Exercise as ongoing product lines — Vinyl has already built and shipped these as standalone capabilities (Vinyl is the Exchange Agent for live deals), and the next chapter is product evolution: new deal types, deeper automation, and the conversion of every tender-offer client into a full TA customer.

You will partner closely with the engineering tech leads who run the Core platform, and you will set the product direction they execute against. You will sit in customer conversations with public-company general counsel, equity administrators, and securities lawyers, and you will hold those conversations on your own — because you have lived inside their world. You will represent Core TA and Corporate Actions in sales meetings, board updates, regulator conversations, and design partnerships with the largest issuers Vinyl serves.

This is a Mangaluru-based role, working in-office alongside the engineering organization that builds the Core platform. Because Core TA and Corporate Actions intersect heavily with US-based customers, US legal counsel, and US capital-markets infrastructure, the role requires 20% travel to Chicago and customer sites — and a willingness to take some early-morning or late-evening calls with US counterparts during peak periods like proxy season, year-end corporate actions, and major deal close-outs.

• Own the Core TA + Corporate Actions product roadmap end-to-end — covering transfers, issuances, cancellations, holder management, DRS, DWAC, restricted-security removal, Vinyl Signature Guarantee, dividends, distributions, spinoffs, escheatment, tax filings, tender offers, and warrant exercises.
• Own Tender Offer and Warrant Exercise as ongoing product lines. Vinyl has already shipped these as standalone capabilities and is the Exchange Agent on live deals. Your job is the next chapter: new deal types, deeper automation, sharper per-deal economics, and the conversion of every tender-offer client into a full TA customer.
• Drive the next phase of Core TA and Corporate Actions product evolution — reverse split, rights offerings, escheatment, switch DWAC/DRS API, and the connected corporate-actions surfaces where the modern, software-led approach is most different from the legacy approach. Decide what to build, what to partner on, and what to deprioritize.
• Partner closely with the Core engineering tech leads on architecture, workflow design, exception handling, and operational reliability — setting product direction they execute against. You will not manage the engineers, but you will hold the technical bar with them and they will respect that you do.
• Sit directly with customers — public-company general counsel, equity administrators, securities lawyers, corporate secretaries, financial-printer partners, broker-dealer back offices — to gather requirements, validate workflows, and translate what you hear into roadmap. Hold these conversations on your own depth, not as a coordinator between the customer and engineering.
• Represent Core TA and Corporate Actions in sales conversations with prospective issuers alongside the sales team — acting as the product, technical, and domain voice. Migration off a legacy TA is the primary reason customers choose Vinyl; you make the comparison tangible.
• Partner with the operations team on workflow design, SLA definitions, exception escalation, and the operational metrics that turn a product specification into a service customers trust. Own the product surfaces that translate operational discipline into customer-visible quality.
• Partner with the Product Manager, Issuer Activation — their work ends where yours begins. Once an issuer is live on Vinyl, every event flows through your surface. The handoff and the continuity of customer experience are jointly owned.
• Partner with the Product Manager, Payment Solutions — your Corporate Actions roadmap (dividends, distributions, escheatment) shares product surface and customer journey with their Payment Solutions roadmap. The two domains must move in lockstep.
• Represent Vinyl in regulator and DTC conversations on Core TA mechanics, settlement workflows, and corporate-actions disclosure. Translate Vinyl’s SOC 2 and regulatory posture into customer-evident product behavior.
• Define and track success metrics: transfer velocity, restricted-security removal time, corporate-action execution accuracy, tender-offer per-deal economics, customer-reported error rates, roadmap delivery against the most strategically valuable capabilities, and the unit economics that signal Core TA + Corporate Actions as a defensible competitive moat.
• Write clear product specs, decision memos, regulator-facing artifacts, customer-facing playbooks, and board updates. Translate operational, legal, and technical complexity into narratives that engineers, executives, customers, and regulators can act on.