Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. They are seeking a Product Manager to define and drive new product initiatives, manage existing products, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance their Trading API offerings.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
- Experience building or scaling trading platforms or brokerage products
- Hands-on experience with algorithmic trading
- Technical background with experience working with APIs