Product Manager - Trading API

Your Role: 

Our Trading API product team at Alpaca is seeking a Product Manager to help define and drive new 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.

Things 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

 Who You Might Be (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