Product Manager - Internal Product (Tax)
Alpaca is a developer-first API brokerage platform that enables developers and businesses to build and launch their own investing apps. They offer access to US stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies, serving over 150 businesses in 30 countries and a community of 25,000 active developers.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a modern brokerage platform that provides access to the financial markets through developer-friendly APIs. By using Alpaca API, businesses build investing applications and features for their services. Also, programmatic traders can develop algorithms to automate trading strategies. Alpaca offers global access to US stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies both in notional and fractional formats. More than 150 businesses from 30 different countries have launched their investing applications using Alpaca's infrastructure. The company is supported by a strong developer community of 25,000 monthly active developers. Alpaca has several entities with international regulatory approvals, including Alpaca Securities LLC, a registered US broker-dealer with FINRA and the SEC, and a member of SIPC. In 2024, Alpaca Securities transitioned to fully self-clearing. Alpaca Crypto LLC is a registered Money Services Business with FinCEN. Alpaca is headquartered in California, USA, and operates as a globally fully remote distributed company with 150 members in 25 countries.
Skills
About the Role
You will own the tax product lifecycle, build and operate the systems, vendor relationships, and processes that keep tax obligations accurate, compliant, and on time across every tax obligation from daily cost basis tracking through annual 1099 delivery and IRS filing. You will ensure tax operations scale reliably as the organization adds new asset classes, account types, and partner institutions. You will collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and Compliance to ensure upstream data ingestion and data architecture support tax requirements. You will design and implement monitoring and dashboards that provide real time visibility into filing statuses, error rates, and corrections.
Requirements
- Tax domain expertise in US brokerage tax reporting including 1099 production cost basis rules and IRS filing requirements
- Product management or technical program management experience in fintech brokerage or financial infrastructure
- Vendor management experience with third party tax or financial technology vendors
- Cross functional leadership across Engineering Operations Compliance and Legal
- Technical fluency with data systems and file formats such as IRS schemas and FIRE format
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
Responsibilities
- Own the tax product lifecycle from ideation to delivery across IRS and state reporting
- Drive the product roadmap for tax reporting including timelines criteria and quality gates for on time filings
- Vendor management to own relationships with tax technology vendors and ensure performance
- Meet critical tax deadlines by coordinating cross functional teams and maintaining calendars
- Scale tax infrastructure to support new asset classes and account types including multi entity structures
- Partner with core engineering to ensure upstream data ingestion and data architecture supports tax needs
- Design and launch internal monitoring tools and dashboards for real time filing status and corrections
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