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

🕒 May 13

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• 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 • 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 • Act as a strategic bridge across Operations, Engineering, Product, Compliance, Finance, Treasury, and Risk • Influence roadmap prioritization for operational tooling and platform improvements • Lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and external vendors • Operate as a trusted thought partner and escalation point for operational leadership • Mentor and develop operational leaders and subject matter experts • Help establish a culture of accountability, urgency, ownership, and operational excellence • Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure operational adherence to applicable regulatory obligations • Interface with clearing firms, exchanges, FCMs, market utilities, and industry working groups • Support operational readiness for audits, examinations, certifications, and regulatory reviews • Contribute to operational frameworks supporting new market and product launches • Monitor industry developments and modernization initiatives across clearing and market infrastructure • Lead high-severity operational issue management and root cause analysis • Develop preventative controls and resiliency frameworks • Improve operational transparency, escalation protocols, and incident response procedures • Establish scalable operational governance and documentation standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in brokerage operations, clearing operations, futures operations, exchange operations, market infrastructure, or capital markets operations • Deep expertise in brokerage and clearing operations • Strong operational knowledge across equities, options, settlements, reconciliations, transfers, margin, operational controls, and customer-impacting workflows • Deep expertise in Futures and/or Prediction Markets operational workflows • Strong understanding of trade lifecycle management, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, collateral, margin, and operational controls • Experience working with clearing firms, FCMs, exchanges, OCC, CME, DTCC, or other financial market infrastructure providers • Proven ability to independently lead highly cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced environments • Strong systems thinking and process optimization mindset • Experience driving operational automation and scalable infrastructure improvements • Comfortable operating both strategically and tactically depending on business needs • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities • Demonstrated leadership through influence, ownership, and execution. • Core Competencies - Alignment with Alpaca’s company tenets: Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card