Operations Analyst New Remote - Global (Eastern Time Zone)

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD 500

Monthly Stipend: USD 150 via Brex Card

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking an Operations Analyst for Market Data to manage data licensing, usage reporting, and entitlements that support Alpaca’s market data product. You will ensure compliance with data sources while delivering market data to millions of users, collaborating with data providers, brokers, and internal teams.

As the market data team grows, you will own the operational backbone, handling licensing, reporting, and audits, and identifying automation opportunities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in operations, market data admin or vendor management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple deadlines across counterparties.
• Ability to read and interpret contract and licensing terms.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Manage new data licenses and renewals with data sources.
• Track license terms, renewal dates and obligations.
• Prepare and submit monthly usage reporting for each data feed.
• Monitor licensing of brokers/partners distributing data.
• Enable/disable data feeds per licensing/contracts.
• Respond to data source audits and inquiries.
• Identify opportunities to automate licensing/reporting processes.
• Assist with customer support queries regarding data feeds.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organized

Licensing terms reading

Tools

SQL

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst 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, totalling 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.
Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role:

As Operations Analyst for Market Data, you will be responsible for managing the data licensing, usage reporting and entitlements that underpin Alpaca’s market data product, keeping us compliant with all of our data sources while we deliver market data to millions of users.

After successful and rapid growth with our Trading API and Broker API, Alpaca is now building out our market data product. The team is rapidly growing, and we work with a growing number of exchange groups and data providers, as well as brokers and partners who redistribute our data to their own customers.

We’re looking for someone highly organized and detail-oriented to own the operational backbone of our market data business. You’ll work closely with our data sources and broker/partner customers, as well as internal teams across market data, sales, legal, finance and engineering.

Things You Get To Do:

• Manage new data licenses and renewals with all of our data sources, including exchange groups and other data providers
• Track license terms, renewal dates and obligations so that nothing lapses
• Prepare and submit accurate, on-time monthly usage reporting for each data feed to each of our data sources
• Monitor the licensing of brokers/partners redistributing our data, maintaining current evidence of distribution licensing/authorization for each one
• Enable and disable data feeds for broker/partner customers in line with their licensing and contracts
• Respond to data source audits and inquiries, keeping our licensing records and documentation complete and up to date
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate our licensing, reporting and entitlement processes
• Assist with customer support queries regarding data feeds or licensing

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• 2+ years of experience in operations, ideally in market data administration, data licensing or vendor management within financial services
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Highly organized, able to manage many recurring deadlines across multiple counterparties
• Ability to read and interpret contract and licensing terms
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

• Familiarity with exchange market data policies and usage reporting (e.g. NYSE, Nasdaq, Cboe, OPRA, CTA/UTP)
• Experience with market data inventory and usage reporting tools
• SQL or scripting experience to help automate reporting
• Experience or understanding of financial markets
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and able to self-manage

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.