Product Manager – Trading API

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September 29

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Alpaca

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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.

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

📋 Description

• Ideate and deliver Alpaca’s direct channel features while closely collaborating with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and other cross-functional teams • Help drive direct channel product strategy by deeply understanding customer needs and behaviours, analyzing ROI, assessing market competition, and evaluating build-vs-buy opportunities • Define and own product requirements, partnering with engineering, design, operations, data, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time • Conduct user research and customer interviews to uncover customer pain points, validate solutions, and inform product decisions • Own product metrics by leveraging data analytics to measure success, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement • Shape and maintain the product roadmap, aligning short-term execution with long-term strategy • Guide go-to-market strategy and execution, partnering with marketing, sales, and operations to drive product adoption, activation, retention, and revenue growth • Conduct deep-dive analyses of the user funnel, identify friction points, optimize conversion rates, and uncover opportunities to drive product growth • Take ownership of ad hoc projects and initiatives as business needs evolve

🎯 Requirements

• Excited about what Alpaca is building • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, STEM, or a related field • 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Trading, or building a product of your own • Deep passion for trading, markets, and financial products • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL • Sharp business acumen, with the ability to balance user experience, stakeholder needs, technical feasibility, and resource constraints • Strategic thinker who can zoom in on solving immediate problems while keeping long-term company goals in mind • Highly self-driven, with exceptional communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical audiences • Experience building or scaling trading platforms or brokerage products (nice-to-have) • Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading (nice-to-have) • Technical background with experience working with APIs (nice-to-have)

🏖️ 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