Product Manager - Trading API

<div class="content-intro"><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 <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 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 9 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'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'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'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.</p></div><h4><strong>Your Role: </strong></h4> <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’s direct channel features while closely collaborating with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and many other cross-functional teams across Alpaca.</p> <h4><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong></h4> <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> <h4><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Excited about what Alpaca is building </li> <li>Bachelor’s or Master’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> ... (truncated, view full listing at source)