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Alpaca, a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, is seeking a Director of Corporate Actions to own the function end-to-end across U.S. and international markets. This leadership role is accountable for daily production, supervisory controls, team performance, incident management, and the systems and operating model required to scale Corporate Actions globally.
Key responsibilities include leading Alpaca's Corporate Actions organization across mandatory and voluntary events (dividends, splits, mergers, exchanges, tenders, rights, redemptions, spin-offs, elections, and security lifecycle changes). You will establish and own the supervisory framework governing Corporate Actions, including maker-checker standards, control gates, reconciliations, exception management, escalation thresholds, and evidence of review. You'll hold the team accountable for accurate, timely processing and ensure no material event progresses without required supervisory and system checks.
The role requires owning material Corporate Actions incidents from containment through root cause analysis, remediation, and permanent control or system improvement. You will partner with Security Master, Trading, Ledger, Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership to eliminate recurring failure modes and strengthen front-to-back controls. You'll drive automation, observability, reconciliation, and exception tooling to reduce manual processing and improve scalability, while building a common global operating model across markets, custodians, depositories, currencies, tax regimes, deadlines, and local market conventions.
You must understand how Corporate Actions failures create broader trading, margin, settlement, and financial exposure—not simply operational breaks—and build controls accordingly. Additional responsibilities include developing the Corporate Actions team, strengthening subject-matter depth and succession coverage, and reducing reliance on tribal knowledge.
Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, including broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts. The company is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors and operates a globally distributed team of 400+ members.
