Counsel, Commercial

<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><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Your Role:</span></strong></span></p> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Reporting to the Vice President, the Commercial Counsel will have exceptional negotiating and drafting experience, product support, and fintech services industry experience. You will need to be able to combine business acumen and creativity to negotiate terms to help launch key business initiatives. You will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work supporting our sales, technology, product, partnerships, and enterprise teams. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Things You Get To Do:</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Commercial Transactional Leadership:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Draft, review, and negotiate complex financial and commercial agreements, including</span> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clearing agreements</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crypto and digital asset services agreements</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Securities lending and margin documentation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">B2B API, SaaS, and embedded brokerage partnerships</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Derivatives and futures documentation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vendor and event contracts</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Structure novel partnership arrangements that support Alpaca’s API-first brokerage model.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" ... (truncated, view full listing at source)