Senior Product Manager, Trading API at Alpaca

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Through its subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs. Its clients include broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, representing over 10 million brokerage accounts.

The global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals working toward the mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. Alpaca is deeply committed to open source contributions and community building, continuously enhancing its award winning, developer friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is backed by $400 million in funding from top tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team

Alpaca is a dynamic team of more than 400 globally distributed members who thrive working from their favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. The company is looking for passionate individuals eager to contribute to its rapid growth. Candidates who align with the core values of Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable are encouraged to apply.

Your Role

The Trading API product team at Alpaca is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive growth across Alpaca’s direct channel, from core Trading API products to Alpaca Connect and Marketplace, the ecosystem for third party apps and partners. In this role, you will define and ship product initiatives that deepen developer and trader engagement, expand the partner ecosystem, and grow trading volume and revenue, while collaborating closely with engineering, design, data, marketing, partnerships, operations, and other cross functional teams across Alpaca.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Alpaca Connect and Marketplace roadmap, including self service partner onboarding and approval, app discovery and distribution, OAuth and consent experiences, and platform utilities that help partners get found, adopted, and scaled.
• Help drive Trading API product strategy by deeply understanding customer and partner needs and behaviors, analyzing ROI, assessing market competition, and evaluating build versus buy opportunities.
• Define and own product requirements, partnering with engineering, design, operations, data, partnerships, and other cross functional teams to deliver high quality products on time.
• Own product metrics by leveraging data analytics to measure success, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement.
• Guide go to market strategy and execution, partnering with marketing, sales, partnerships, and operations to drive product adoption, activation, retention, and revenue growth.
• Drive Trading API growth across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization by deep diving the user funnel, removing friction, optimizing conversion, and running experiments that move trading volume and revenue.
• 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.
• 6 or more 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.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or scaling trading platforms, brokerage products, developer platforms, or integration marketplaces.
• Hands on experience with algorithmic trading.
• Technical background with experience working with APIs or partner ecosystems.
• Experience owning growth metrics.

How We Take Care of You

• Competitive salary and 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.