Product Manager - Trading API
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 D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 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 9 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 Trading API product team at Alpaca is seeking a Product Manager to help define and drive new product initiatives, as well as manage a portfolio of existing products. In this role, you will ideate and deliver Alpaca’s direct channel features while closely collaborating with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and many other cross-functional teams across Alpaca.
Things You Get To Do:
- Help drive direct channel product strategy by deeply understanding customer needs and behaviours, analyzing ROI, assessing market competition, and evaluating build-vs-buy opportunities
- Define and own product requirements, partnering with engineering, design, operations, data, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time
- Conduct user research and customer interviews to uncover customer pain points, validate solutions, and inform product decisions
- Own product metrics by leveraging data analytics to measure success, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement
- Shape and maintain the product roadmap, aligning short-term execution with long-term strategy
- Guide go-to-market strategy and execution, partnering with marketing, sales, and operations to drive product adoption, activation, retention, and revenue growth
- Conduct deep-dive analyses of the user funnel, identify friction points, optimize conversion rates, and uncover opportunities to drive product growth
- Take ownership of ad hoc projects and initiatives as business needs evolve
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- Excited about what Alpaca is building
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, STEM, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Trading, or building a product of your own
- Deep passion for trading, markets, and financial products
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL
- Sharp business acumen, with the ability to balance user experience, stakeholder needs, technical feasibility, and resource constraints
- Strategic thinker who can zoom in on solving immediate problems while keeping long-term company goals in mind
- Highly self-driven, with exceptional communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical audiences
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Experience building or scaling trading platforms or brokerage products
- Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading
- Technical background with experience 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.