Senior Product Manager, Core TA & Corporate Actions

About Vinyl Equity

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.

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Role Requirements

• 8–12+ years working in or around capital-markets infrastructure, with substantive time inside a transfer agent, clearing firm, custodian, broker-dealer back office, securities-services operator, or a comparable capital-markets infrastructure platform. The work you have done has to be operational, not adjacent.
• Personal operating depth in transfer agency and corporate actions — you have run or owned the workflows, not coordinated them across a team that runs them. You understand transfers, issuances, cancellations, restricted-securities removal, DRS, DWAC, dividends, distributions, spinoffs, escheatment, tender offers, and warrant exercises from the inside, with the operational nuance and customer-impact context that comes only from doing the work.
• Working knowledge of the SEC, DTC, and stock-exchange rulebook for the workflows you own — SEC 17Ad-17 (lost shareholders), Schedule TO mechanics for tender offers, DEF 14A and DEFA14A for corporate actions disclosure, DTC settlement workflows for DWAC and DRS, and the disclosure timing that connects them. Lived knowledge, not handoff knowledge.
• Track record of shipping product, platform, or operational improvements that materially changed how a TA or corporate-actions function ran — not specs that languished, but outcomes that customers and regulators experienced.
• Comfort with technical architecture and cross-functional collaboration with engineering tech leads on workflow design, exception handling, and integration with downstream systems (DTC, brokers, banks, financial printers). You don’t write the code, but you hold the technical bar with the engineers who do.
• Strong customer-facing presence with public-company general counsel, securities lawyers, equity administrators, and corporate secretaries. You can hold these conversations on your own technical and domain depth, not as a coordinator routing between customer and engineering.
• Comfort participating in regulator and DTC conversations on TA mechanics and corporate-actions disclosure, with the rigor and care that those forums require.
• Strong written communication: product specifications, regulator-facing artifacts, customer-facing playbooks, decision memos, board updates. You write tight, opinionated, decision-driving prose.
• Comfort working across geographies and time zones — the role is Mangaluru-based but the customer base, capital-markets infrastructure, and executive team are US-centric. Expect 20% travel to Chicago and customer sites, plus regular US-evening calls during peak periods.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML tools in a product or operational setting.

Nice to Haves

• Direct experience at an incumbent transfer agent in a product, operations, or domain-leader role — you know the legacy mental models from the inside, and you know what a modern alternative needs to do differently.
• Direct experience at a clearing firm, custodian, broker-dealer back office, or securities-services operator — the connected layers of the capital-markets stack that intersect with the TA every day.
• Hands-on experience as a corporate-actions specialist, transfer specialist, securities operations lead, or paying-agent operator before moving into product.
• Experience shipping Tender Offer or Exchange Agent workflows, warrant exercises, or comparable per-deal capital-markets transactions — ideally with awareness of the SEC and DTC mechanics that govern them.
• Familiarity with KYC/KYB workflows and the operational practices that translate compliance requirements into product surfaces.
• Experience working on tokenized securities, on-chain settlement, stablecoin payment rails, or wallet integration as it relates to TA and corporate-actions workflows.
• Background in a regulated environment with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar compliance regimes — having shipped audit-ready features rather than just inherited an audit posture.

You could be a great fit if:

• You have lived inside transfer agency, corporate actions, or comparable capital-markets infrastructure for years, and you know the workflows, the customer types, and the regulatory mechanics by hand. You don’t need a primer; you can hold the technical conversation with any customer or regulator on day one.
• You believe Vinyl’s opportunity is to do what incumbents could never do — not to be a faster legacy TA, but to be a fundamentally different one. You want to define what that means.
• You’ve built your career inside regulated, operationally complex B2B environments and care about the craft of making them feel simple to the customer while keeping every regulator obligation airtight.
• You enjoy holding the technical bar with engineers, the operational bar with the back office, and the legal-and-regulatory bar with counsel and regulators — and you can do all three credibly.
• You’re energized by ambiguity and want to define how a product surface operates rather than inherit a structure built by someone else.
• You’re motivated by fast growth and excited by the pace, autonomy, and opportunity that comes with an early-stage startup — and by the chance to introduce real innovation into an industry that has largely stood still for nearly three decades.
• You bring rigor to documentation, process, and follow-through and expect the same from your partners.
• You’re willing to travel to Chicago and customer sites 20% of the time, take some early-morning or late-evening US calls during peak periods, and operate as a global product leader from a Mangaluru base.

Why join us?

• Own the foundational product surface at the company — the part of Vinyl every customer touches every day. The platform is built and proven; your job is to make it the defining reason issuers choose Vinyl over an incumbent.
• Work directly with the CTO, CRO, and CEO; influence company strategy from day one. Sit at the center of the customer, engineering, and regulator conversations that define the next phase of Vinyl.
• Lead Vinyl’s differentiation story in Core TA and Corporate Actions — tender offer per-deal economics, modern corporate actions, automated workflows, on-chain settlement adjacency — and define what a modern, software-led approach to this domain looks like in practice.
• Join Vinyl’s core engineering organization in Mangaluru, working in-office alongside the team building the rest of the platform. Travel to Chicago and customer sites regularly, with the global exposure that comes with that.
• Competitive cash compensation, meaningful equity in a Series A company backed by Jump Capital, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Infinity Ventures, and others, and full benefits.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, calibrated against Indian Series A engineering and product market benchmarks
• Equity-based compensation — share counts at Series A preferred price
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision coverage
• Generous PTO
• In-office collaborative environment in Mangaluru with structured US travel and customer exposure