Product Manager Brokerage

Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.

San Mateo, California, United States
About Alpaca

Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.

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Skills

About the Role

You will define and deliver brokerage products for EU markets, including equities, ETFs, tax-wrapper accounts, integrations, and operational workflows. You will develop product strategy and roadmaps, write requirements, assess build-versus-buy decisions, collaborate with engineers and operations, engage customers and partners, and ensure products meet regional regulatory and market requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent
  • Five or more years of experience in product management, engineering, consulting, or startup building
  • Experience or demonstrated interest in EU brokerage, capital markets, or fintech
  • Understanding of MiFID II, MiFIR, ESMA, EU capital markets, and member-state tax and tax-wrapper rules
  • Written and verbal English communication skills
  • Business acumen for stakeholder, technology, time, and budget tradeoffs

Responsibilities

  • Own brokerage products tailored for EU markets, including equities, ETFs, tax-wrapper accounts, and regional offerings
  • Own EU tax and tax-wrapper functionality, including eligibility and contribution rules, cost-basis tracking, withholding, reclaims, and local reporting
  • Drive brokerage product strategy through ROI, competition, regulatory, and build-versus-buy analysis
  • Build and execute a MiFID II and MiFIR-compliant product roadmap
  • Write product requirements and work with engineers to execute programs
  • Improve brokerage operational efficiency and own relevant metrics for settlement, custody, and clearing workflows
  • Lead customer calls and translate insights into product improvements
  • Report product status and results to stakeholders, partners, and institutional clients
  • Collaborate with local operations teams on EU market-infrastructure integration

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD 500 home-office setup
  • USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card