Product Manager, New Assets
Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.
Maintainer signals as of 8/11/2026
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About Alpaca
Alpaca helps developers and businesses access financial markets through API-first infrastructure for stock, options, and cryptocurrency trading. Users can build algorithmic trading strategies, create investing applications, and integrate brokerage services into their platforms.
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About the Role
You will own one core trading sub-surface end-to-end, driving prioritization, API design, and rollout. You will work with partners and internal teams to ship API-driven trading capabilities, aiming for broad adoption. You will collaborate with compliance, legal, and market-structure teams on decisions that touch licensing, trading rules, and venue connectivity in a regulated environment. You will improve operational efficiency, track adoption, and report status to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Consulting, or starting a startup, preferably in equities, options, FX, money market funds, or other regulated trading/brokerage infrastructure.
- Demonstrated depth on at least one trading surface - an asset class (MMFs, Global Stocks, FX, Options), execution / order management, margin, FIX, or another core trading capability - shipped to production scale.
- Experience shipping B2B / developer-facing products: SDKs, APIs, partner integrations where developers and partners are the primary customer, not just end users.
- Comfort shipping in parallel with compliance, legal, and market-structure teams in a regulated environment.
- Experience analyzing data using SQL and a relevant BI tool.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent.
- Business acumen to weigh stakeholder, tech feasibility, time, and budget tradeoffs.
Responsibilities
- Own one core trading sub-surface end-to-end (a new asset class or an ancillary trading product) and drive prioritization, API design, and rollout.
- Run discovery with partners and prospects to translate findings into a sequenced backlog for your surface and push back on requests that don’t fit the platform.
- Ship to production at the cadence of a high-growth platform, write clear PRDs, align with engineering on API contracts, and produce partner-facing documentation.
- Partner with compliance, legal, and market-structure / execution teams on decisions that touch licensing, trading rules, best execution, and venue connectivity.
- Improve operational efficiency on your surface through better exception handling, partner-facing tooling, and automation of repetitive ops.
- Track adoption beyond GA by monitoring trading volume, order success rate, partner activation, and blockers, and iterate on docs, SDK ergonomics, and rollout sequencing.
- Report status and results to internal and external stakeholders, including partners.
Benefits
- Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup (one-time $500)
- Monthly Stipend ($150 per month) via Brex Card
