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Overview

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Your Role

Our Trading API product team at Alpaca is seeking a Product Manager to help define and drive recent product initiatives, as well as manage a portfolio of existing products. In this role, you will ideate and deliver Alpaca's direct channel features while closely collaborating with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and many other cross-functional teams across Alpaca.

What You Get To Do

- Help drive direct channel product strategy by deeply understanding customer needs and behaviours, analyzing ROI, assessing market competition, and evaluating build-vs-buy opportunities
- Define and own product requirements, partnering with engineering, design, operations, data, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time




- Conduct user research and customer interviews to uncover customer pain points, validate solutions, and inform product decisions
- Own product metrics by leveraging data analytics to measure success, identify opportunities, and drive continuous improvement
- Shape and maintain the product roadmap, aligning short-term execution with long-term strategy
- Guide go-to-market strategy and execution, partnering with marketing, sales, and operations to drive product adoption, activation, retention, and revenue growth
- Conduct deep-dive analyses of the user funnel, identify friction points, optimize conversion rates, and uncover opportunities to drive product growth
- Take ownership of ad hoc projects and initiatives as business needs evolve

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

- Excited about what Alpaca is building
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, STEM, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Trading, or building a product of your own
- Deep passion for trading, markets, and financial products
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL
- Sharp business acumen, with the ability to balance user experience, stakeholder needs, technical feasibility, and resource constraints
- Strategic thinker who can zoom in on solving immediate problems while keeping long-term company goals in mind
- Highly self-driven, with exceptional communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical audiences

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience building or scaling trading platforms or brokerage products
- Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading
- Technical background with experience working with APIs

How We Take Care of You

- 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

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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📌 Product Manager - Trading API (Toronto)
🏢 Alpaca
📍 Toronto