Strategic Initiatives Associate, Alpaca
+ Stock options
API for stock and crypto trading
Job no longer available
API for stock and crypto trading
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ 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
- 3+ years of investment banking and/or strategic consulting experience with highly analytical and problem-solving skills
- Extremely strong in excel, analytical reporting, and clear/crips communication skills
- Well-developed judgment, management, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to deal effectively with a rapidly changing, complex business environment
- Good project/time management skills to manage multi-functional accountabilities through prioritization, delegation, motivation, conflict resolution, and the promotion of ideas
- Degree in Strategy, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a quantitative discipline. Coding skills or CFA would be an asset
What the job involves
- As the Manager of the Strategic Initiatives team, you will report to the SVP and support the founders in quantitatively analyzing and helping to craft go-to-market (“GTM””) strategies, creating financial models and presentations for new GTM initiatives, and supporting accelerating the leadership team to make decisions through quantitative research and analysis.
- You will be responsible for supporting and quantitatively driving strategic initiatives to propel the growth and expansion of Alpaca. You will play a crucial role in supporting & developing a business case and developing & analyzing GTM strategies. You will partner with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, product development, and finance, to ensure coordinated efforts toward growth
- Develop and quantitatively present business cases & strategies that align with the company's overall objectives and long-term vision
- Conduct market research to identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks, and present them with key metrics analytically
- Manage the identification, setup, monitoring, and reporting of success metrics for key initiatives, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations
- Collaborate with the executive team to define strategic priorities and create GTM action plans, including market analysis, threat identification, and resource allocation
- Help develop GTM playbooks & supporting assets for new products, services, geographies, or segments through market research and logical segmentation
- Help negotiate and finalize partnership and joint venture agreements with external parties to drive mutual value and growth
- Develop detailed strategies, and GTM plans that contribute to the overall corporate strategy and support board reporting
- Synthesize and distill key financial and business insights for leadership, including analysis of results, business KPIs, risk assessment, and timely communication of risks and opportunities
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, meaning it delivers a valuable service.
Despite plenty of competition, Alpaca has created a solid position for itself. It is well-funded and set on international expansion as well as further development of its offering. In 2025, the company was accepted as a Nasdaq Exchange Member, reflecting its progression toward building in-house, full-stack brokerage infrastructure.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2026
$150m
SERIES D
Apr 2025
$52m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Health benefits from day 1 (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
- Medical, Dental, Vision 🇺🇸
- Supplemental health care 🇨🇦
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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