Product Manager, Alpaca
Payments
+ Stock options
API for stock and crypto trading
Posted today
API for stock and crypto trading
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock asset management for the people by modularising the world’s asset management activities.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrated experience within the payments ecosystem, including a deep understanding of payment processing, cross-border transactions, and global payment methods (e.g., ACH, SEPA, wires, local bank transfers)
- Strong understanding of global and local payment processing, regulations, and technologies
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Experience with Agile methodologies is a plus
What the job involves
- Alpaca is looking for a Product Manager with deep experience around global and local payment rails, to lead our various payment initiatives
- You will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing our vision towards a global financial platform, and provide seamless solutions to help grow our partners to integrate with Alpaca’s API
- Own and execute the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Alpaca’s global funding infrastructure, encompassing all inbound and outbound payment flows for our users
- Identify, evaluate, and lead the integration of new local and alternative payment methods in international markets. You will own the business case for expansion and the execution of new rail integrations from discovery to launch
- Define the product requirements for our public-facing Payments and Funding APIs and the underlying internal systems. You will champion a world-class experience for our developer partners, ensuring our APIs are scalable, reliable, and well-documented
- Collaborate with engineering, design, finance, and operations teams to deliver high-quality solutions
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and inform product decisions
- Instrument, analyze, and own KPIs for the payments funnel—including conversion rates, cost-per-transaction, settlement times, and error rates. You will use this data to drive the prioritization roadmap and communicate impact to stakeholders
- Manage the product lifecycle from conception to launch and beyond
- Build and manage relationships with banks and payment rail vendors to discover the best solutions
- Communicate product vision and strategy to stakeholders
Our take
Alpaca offers a developer-first API for stock trading. It enables companies to offer short-stock trading both worldwide and competitively commission-free across various programming languages. Within one year of launch Alpaca facilitated over $1 billion in transactions.
This is impressive, but not surprising. Fintech apps that facilitate stock trading on a level previously inaccessible to retail investors are on the rise. Alpaca puts this software within reach of companies who may previously have lacked the ability or the tech to do so. However, competition is growing, both from existing competitors like Interactive Brokers and Robinhood and robustly funded startups like Galileo and DriveWealth.
Alpaca now has the funding, including a round of convertible debt financing, available to scale its offering to larger businesses, and is looking further afield to work with international customers to earn income from foreign exchange fees. Whilst competition is strong in stock-trading APIs, casting their net wide could win Alpaca a head start.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2025
$52m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$15m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $138.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome people, clients and partners from around the world
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Hitoshi Harada
(CPO)Former Database Kernel Architect at pivotal Inc and contributor at PostgreSQL Global development Group. Graduated from Keio University.
Yoshi Yokokawa
(CEO)Co-founder of Ikkyo Technology and former Forex Trader. Former Vice-President at Nomura.
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