Product Manager, Clearing Systems Remote - Americas

Alpaca; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD $500

Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month

Job summary

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

You will design and operate systems ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely settlements across core brokerage, custody, ledger, and multi-currency infrastructure. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and operations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and build Alpaca’s core clearing infrastructure across brokerage, custody, ledger, asset movement, and global market expansion.
• Translate complex clearing, custody, and regulatory requirements into clear product and engineering requirements.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with operations, finance, treasury, compliance, legal, risk, and product to ensure scalability and regulator readiness.

Skills

Product Management

Technical program management

Brokerage/clearing domain knowledge

Engineering collaboration

Regulatory compliance

cross-functional leadership

Tools

DTCC processing

ACATS

Job description

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructurefor 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

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.

What You’ll Own

You will lead the design and buildout of Alpaca’s core clearing infrastructure across brokerage, custody, ledger, asset movement, and global market expansion.

This includes:

• Defining the long-term architecture for Alpaca’s clearing platform across accounts, positions, balances, ledgers, journals, settlements, stock record, and regulatory books and records.
• Designing 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.
• Partnering with engineering to prototype and build new clearing services rather than relying only on third-party service bureau workflows.
• Working cross-functionally with operations, finance, treasury, compliance, legal, risk, and product to ensure the platform is scalable, controlled, and regulator-ready.
• Translating complex clearing, custody, and regulatory requirements into clear product and engineering requirements.
• Helping Alpaca grow from U.S.-centric brokerage infrastructure into a global, multi-asset, multi-currency clearing platform.

Who You Are (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.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

• You helped 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, ChatGPT, or custom agents in PRD drafting, incident synthesis, data exploration, and prototyping.

Example Problems You Should Be Comfortable Solving

• How should stock record reconcile to DTC, custodians, omnibus providers, internal ledgers, trading systems, and customer-facing balances?
• How should global equities, FX, fractional shares, options, fixed income, Treasuries, and mutual funds fit into one clearing architecture?
• How should a multi-currency brokerage ledger represent trades, settlements, FX conversions, fees, financing, journals, and custody balances?
• How should cashiering, ACH, wires, ACATS, journals, reversals, and transfer exceptions be represented in ledger and operations systems?
• How should possession or control, segregation, fully paid lending, margin, reserve, and reconciliation controls be embedded into the platform instead of handled as manual after-the-fact processes?

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

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