Director, Core Brokerage Operations and Clearing - Brokerage and Futures Prediction Market

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 We are seeking a Director to serve as a key operational leader within our Brokerage Operations organization. This role is designed for a highly strategic operator who can function as a critical strategic partner to senior operations leadership — owning complex operational domains, driving cross-functional initiatives, scaling brokerage infrastructure, and helping shape Alpaca’s expansion into Futures and Prediction Markets . The ideal candidate brings deep brokerage and clearing operations expertise alongside strong knowledge of Futures and/or Prediction Markets. They are proactive, systems-oriented, operationally rigorous, and comfortable leading across Operations, Engineering, Product, Compliance, Treasury, and Risk in a fast-moving environment. Things You Get To Do Lead Brokerage Market Infrastructure Operations Serve as a senior operational leader across Alpaca’s brokerage and clearing ecosystem Help oversee and scale operational workflows across equities, options, cash management, transfers, reconciliations, settlements, and operational risk domains Build and scale operational workflows supporting Futures and Prediction Markets products Design scalable clearing, settlement, reconciliation, collateral, fraud prevention, and lifecycle management processes Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to operationalize new products and trading capabilities Evaluate operational risk across new market structures and proactively implement controls and monitoring Help shape Alpaca’s long-term operational strategy across brokerage operations and multi-asset clearing infrastructure Drive Automation, Scale Operational Excellence Identify high-impact automation opportunities across reconciliation, exception management, settlement, margin, and reporting workflows Lead initiatives that materially improve operational efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and accuracy Reduce manual touchpoints through systems thinking and process engineering Establish measurable KPIs and operational performance metrics Drive proactive operational readiness rather than reactive firefighting Operate as a Strategic Cross-Functional Leader Act as a strategic bridge across Operations, Engineering, Product, Compliance, Finance, Treasury, and Risk Influence roadm ... (truncated, view full listing at source)