Product Manager, Digital Assets - Crypto

Alpaca; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup grant

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking a Product Manager to own its regulated crypto trading and yield surface, including spot and perps, funding rails, staking, lending, and the crypto API for partners.

You will collaborate with engineering, compliance, legal, and partnerships to scale crypto infrastructure, and provide early signals on US policy changes. This role emphasizes developer-focused product strategy and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup, preferably in crypto infrastructure.
• Experience shipping in a regulated environment with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Ops.
• Demonstrated depth on at least one core crypto product surface at production scale.
• Strong understanding of crypto market structure and API-first platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the spot crypto exchange product surface and related partner facing experience.
• Lead integrations with liquidity providers and custodians for funding flows.
• Collaborate with fintechs, neobrokers, and institutional platforms to expand supported networks.
• Drive staking, lending/earn product design within regulatory constraints.
• Shape a crypto API surface for developers and agents with SDKs and changelog discipline.
• Lead and execute the product case for crypto perpetuals (perps).

Skills

Product Management

Crypto exchanges

API-first development

Partnerships

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent

Tools

SDKs

Crypto API

Regulatory tools

Job description

Product Manager, Digital Assets - Crypto

Who We Are:

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's product team is looking for a Product Manager to own Alpaca's regulated crypto trading and yield surface: spot or perps exchange, fiat and stablecoin funding rails, staking / lending and the crypto API that partners build on.

You will partner deeply with engineering, compliance, legal, partnerships, and the broader Alpaca product team to ship regulated crypto infrastructure at scale. You will help shape and grow the crypto product itself, and you will be expected to provide early signal on US policy changes rather than react after rules formalize.

Things You Get To Do:

• Own the spot crypto exchange product surface - pair coverage, order types, availability in various jurisdictions and the partner facing experience for trading crypto on Alpaca.
• Lead integrations that unlock funding and liquidity with LPs and custodians. Own the stablecoin funding flow, including paths for USDC and other regulated / GENIUS-aligned stables.
• Work with partners to understand crypto needs for fintechs, neobrokers, and institutional platforms. Expand supported networks and coins that balances partner demand and custody readiness.
• Drive staking and lending / earn product design within regulatory and ops constraints.
• Shape a crypto API surface that treats developers and agents as primary customers: SDKs, reference integrations, changelog discipline.
• Lead and execute the product case for crypto perps.

Who You Are (Must Haves):

• Excited about what Alpaca is building and ready to own a core regulated crypto product surface.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup, preferably within crypto exchanges, brokerage, market making, custody, or financial infrastructure.
• Demonstrated depth on at least one core crypto product surface at production scale: spot trading / exchange, custody / wallets, fiat or stablecoin funding rails, staking / earn or derivatives / perps.
• Strong understanding of crypto market structure - order books, liquidity providers, spreads, slippage, settlement, and how B2B / API-first platforms differ from retail-only exchanges.
• Experience shipping in a regulated environment alongside Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations - comfortable with ambiguity and real-time tradeoffs.
• Proven ability to run partner / customer discovery and turn it into a prioritized roadmap; excellent written and verbal communication across engineering and executive audiences.
• Business acumen to weigh ROI, partner demand, regulatory risk, tech feasibility, time, and budget.
• AI-native PM workflow; AI is part of your daily stack in getting work done.

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

• Direct experience at a crypto exchange, broker-dealer, custodian, market maker, or institutional crypto infrastructure provider.
• Experience building developer-facing crypto APIs used by quants, algo traders, or automated / agentic systems.
• Familiarity with staking, lending / earn, perpetual futures, and the operational and regulatory constraints of offering them through a licensed entity.
• Background combining regulated financial-product context (broker-dealer, payments, custody) with crypto native infrastructure (wallets, L1/L2, on-chain settlement).

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.

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