About the Position

Product Manager, Clearing Systems

Remote - Americas

About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Among 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 10 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're deeply 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Your Role

Alpaca is building the next generation of global brokerage and clearing infrastructure. We are looking for a senior product manager who can own the clearing systems product lifecycle at a rapidly scaling self-clearing broker-dealer.

Your mission is to build and operate the systems and processes that keep Alpaca accurate, compliant, and on time across areas like core brokerage, clearing, ledger, custody, money movement, and multi-currency infrastructure. You will make clearing scale reliably as Alpaca adds asset classes, account types, trading hours, and partner institutions, and as we run a true self-clearing book at DTCC, OCC, and FICC.

This person should be able to walk into ambiguity, understand the full clearing lifecycle, design the architecture, build a working prototype, and lead a team toward production-grade infrastructure. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, operations, finance, compliance, and regulatory infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and buildout of Alpaca’s core clearing infrastructure across brokerage, custody, ledger, asset movement, and global market expansion.
Define the long-term architecture for Alpaca’s clearing platform across accounts, positions, balances, ledgers, journals, settlements, stock record, and regulatory books and records.
Design multi-currency cash and position systems that can support global equities, FX, fractional trading, options, bonds, Treasuries, fixed income, mutual funds, and other asset classes.
Partner with engineering to prototype and build new clearing services rather than relying only on third-party service bureau workflows.
Work cross-functionally with operations, finance, treasury, compliance, legal, risk, and product to ensure the platform is scalable, controlled, and regulator-ready.
Translate complex clearing, custody, and regulatory requirements into clear product and engineering requirements.
Help Alpaca grow from U.S.-centric brokerage infrastructure into a global, multi-asset, multi-currency clearing platform.

Requirements

Must-Haves
- 5+ years in Product Management, technical program management, or engineering on brokerage, clearing, or post-trade infrastructure.
- 10+ years of experience in brokerage, clearing, custody, prime brokerage, trading infrastructure, financial market infrastructure, or capital markets technology.
- Demonstrated depth on at least one clearing surface: settlement and stock record, books and records, corporate actions, margin, ACATS, DTCC processing.
- Highly technical. Ability to work directly with engineers and product teams to turn complex domain requirements into scalable system designs.
- Comfort shipping in parallel with Compliance, Legal, and Operations in a regulated broker-dealer environment.
- Strong operating judgment to weigh risk, operational efficiency, capital allocation, tech feasibility, time, and budget.
- Experience leading senior teams and influencing across functions in a high-growth environment.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience helping to build, convert, or modernize corporate-action processing, a security master, or a self-clearing back office.
- Experience with global brokerage expansion, including international equities, FX, local market custody, omnibus models, sub-ledgers, and currency controls.
- Familiarity with the B2B2C correspondent / broker-as-a-service model.
- AI-native PM workflow: recurring use of tools like Cursor, Claude, or custom agents in PRD drafting, incident synthesis, data exploration, and prototyping.

We Offer

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

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Product Manager, Clearing Systems

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