Alpaca
Product Manager - Internal Product
Remote - Americas
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
SparkAI OrchestrationComplianceDesign SystemsProduct ManagementProduct StrategyLeadership
About the role
- Fix Alpaca's operational bottlenecks for scale.
- You will operate as the critical bridge, ensuring Alpaca's ambitions are balanced against operational reality to secure the foundation for parabolic growth.
- Eliminate critical failure modes by automating core workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for Alpaca's internal workflows and tooling.
- Drive root cause analysis and execute on the most complex and high-risk operational problems (e.g. AML/KYC workflows, reconciliations, corporate actions, cost basis processing, tax reporting, and security master/reference data management)
- Design systems and leverage internal tooling, AI, and workflow orchestration, so existing operations teams can support 100x growth.
- Collaborate with Sales and Product to establish, manage, and enforce the operational capacity standards, acting as the critical check between ambitions and operational reality.
- Drive critical Build vs.
- Own Structural Bottlenecks: Own the product roadmap for Alpaca's internal workflows and tooling.
- Automation Strategy: Design systems and leverage internal tooling, AI, and workflow orchestration, so existing operations teams can support 100x growth. Eliminate critical failure modes by automating core workflows.
- Enforce Operational Readiness: Collaborate with Sales and Product to establish, manage, and enforce the operational capacity standards, acting as the critical check between ambitions and operational reality.
Requirements
- Proven ability to measure product impact against risk and cost, influence senior stakeholders, and successfully defend "not now" decisions with clear, actionable data.
- Strong functional knowledge of brokerage or financial operations (settlements, reconciliations, client money, best execution, etc.) and regulatory compliance/risk mitigation.
- Direct experience with brokerage ops, cost basis, corporate actions, or security master systems
- Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- Operational Knowledge: Strong functional knowledge of brokerage or financial operations (settlements, reconciliations, client money, best execution, etc.) and regulatory compliance/risk mitigation.
Skills
- Proficient with data, understanding complex system boundaries, and process mapping skills.
- Technical Fluency: Proficient with data, understanding complex system boundaries, and process mapping skills.
Compensation
- One-time USD $500
- USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Company info
- 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.
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
- 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.
- Our Team Members:
- We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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.
Equal opportunity
- Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
- equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
This listing is sourced directly from Alpaca's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.