Product Manager - Trading API

Job Description

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>Job Description<p><p><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We&#39;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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p><p>We&#39;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!<br><br>We&#39;re searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca&#39;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.</p></p><strong>Your Role: </strong><p>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&#39;s direct channel features while closely collaborating with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and many other cross-functional teams across Alpaca.</p><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong><ul><li>Help drive direct channel product strategy by deeply understanding customer needs and behaviours, analyzing ROI, assessing market competition, and evaluating build-vs-buy opportunities</li><li>Define and own product requirements, partnering with engineering, design, operations, data, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time</li><li>Conduct user research and customer interviews to uncover customer pain points, validate solutions, and inform product decisions</li><li>Own product metrics by leveraging data analytics to measure success, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement</li><li>Shape and maintain the product roadmap, aligning short-term execution with long-term strategy</li><li>Guide go-to-market strategy and execution, partnering with marketing, sales, and operations to drive product adoption, activation, retention, and revenue growth</li><li>Conduct deep-dive analyses of the user funnel, identify friction points, optimize conversion rates, and uncover opportunities to drive product growth</li><li>Take ownership of ad hoc projects and initiatives as business needs evolve</li></ul><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong><ul><li>Excited about what Alpaca is building </li><li>Bachelor&#39;s or Master&#39;s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, STEM, or a related field</li><li>4+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Trading, or building a product of your own</li><li>Deep passion for trading, markets, and financial products</li><li>Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL </li><li>Sharp business acumen, with the ability to balance user experience, stakeholder needs, technical feasibility, and resource constraints</li><li>Strategic thinker who can zoom in on solving immediate problems while keeping long-term company goals in mind</li><li>Highly self-driven, with exceptional communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical audiences</li></ul><p><strong>Who You Might Be</strong> (<strong>Nice-to-Haves): </strong></p><ul><li>Experience building or scaling trading platforms or brokerage products</li><li>Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading</li><li>Technical background with experience working with APIs</li></ul><p><strong>How We Take Care of You:</strong><ul><li>Competitive Salary & Stock Options</li><li>Health Benefits</li><li>New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</li><li>Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</li></ul><p><em>Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br /></em></p><p><em>Recruitment Privacy Policy</em></p></p></p></p>