Product Manager - Trading API

📋 Description

• • As a Product Manager for Alpaca’s Trading API, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of brokerage infrastructure by defining and driving product initiatives that empower financial institutions and developers worldwide. Your work will directly impact how users access trading capabilities across stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income through Alpaca’s award-winning API platform.
• • Day to day, you will collaborate with engineering, design, data, marketing, and operations teams to define product requirements, conduct user research, analyze metrics, and guide go-to-market strategies. You will own the product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment between customer needs, technical feasibility, and business goals while maintaining and evolving the product roadmap.
• • Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider serving over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40 countries. Backed by over $320 million in funding from top-tier investors including Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator, the company is mission-driven to open financial services to everyone on the planet through open-source contributions and a developer-first API.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in financial products, trading systems, and API-driven platforms while honing your strategic product leadership skills. You’ll gain hands-on experience scaling trading products in a fast-growing fintech environment, influence high-impact decisions, and contribute to a globally distributed team that values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.