Senior Product Manager Trading API

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 ship Trading API and marketplace product initiatives. You will own product strategy, requirements, metrics, growth experiments, and go-to-market execution. You will collaborate across engineering, design, data, marketing, partnerships, sales, and operations to improve adoption, retention, and monetization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, STEM, or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience in product management, engineering, trading, or building a product
  • Passion for trading, markets, and financial products
  • SQL proficiency
  • Analytical skills
  • Business acumen
  • Product strategy
  • Communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Shape the Alpaca Connect and Marketplace roadmap
  • Drive Trading API product strategy based on customer, partner, market, and ROI analysis
  • Define and own product requirements
  • Own product metrics and use analytics to drive improvement
  • Guide go-to-market strategy and execution
  • Drive acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization through funnel analysis and experiments
  • Lead ad hoc product initiatives as business needs evolve

Benefits

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