Lead Product Manager - Brokerage

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Define and drive new product initiatives for brokerage while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and product offerings.

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

 

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role: 

Our brokerage product team at Alpaca is looking for a Lead Product Manager to define and drive new product initiatives and manage a portfolio of existing products. In this role you will ideate and deliver brokerage features while closely collaborating with engineering, analytics, design, partnerships and many other cross-functional teams across Alpaca.

 

Things You Get To Do:

  • Own brokerage products
  • Write product requirements and work with engineers to execute programs
  • Drive brokerage product strategy by analyzing ROI, market competition, and build-vs-buy scenarios
  • Improve the brokerage operation efficiency by providing solutions and owning the metrics
  • Contribute to the product roadmap and product strategy
  • Lead customer calls around brokerage process and product issues to gain insights and reduce them to products
  • Participate in calls with external regulators to drive the product strategy and execution
  • Report timely and accurately on product status and results to internal and external stakeholders
  • Ad hoc duties and projects as assigned

 

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

  • Excited about what Alpaca is building 
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup 
  • Demonstrated interest in Brokerage and FinTech
  • Experience analyzing data using SQL and a relevant BI tool
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal and collaboration skills
  • Business acumen to understand tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility with time and budget constraints

 

 Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):  

  • Experience and background working on and developing Brokerage products is a plus 
  • Technical background working with APIs

 

How We Take Care of You:

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Home Office Stipend: New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly stipend via Brex Card: Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges as well as millions of individual customers all over the world.   Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the brokerage infrastructure behind it. Our Team Members: We’re a team of 200+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more! We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open[ing] financial services to everyone on the planet” and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”

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