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Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. The company is a licensed financial services provider with over 10 million brokerage accounts and is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors including Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator.
In this role, you will own the derivatives product portfolio for Alpaca, with primary focus on listed futures and prediction markets. You will define and drive new product initiatives while managing existing products across Alpaca Derivatives, the firm's regulated Futures Commission Merchant (FCM).
Key responsibilities include:
**Product Ownership & Strategy:** Own derivatives products with focus on listed futures and prediction markets. Drive derivatives product strategy by analyzing ROI, market competition, regulatory requirements, and build-vs-buy scenarios across venues, clearing, and execution. Contribute to product roadmap with focus on FCM launch readiness and CFTC/NFA-compliant features. Write product requirements and collaborate with engineers to execute builds meeting regulatory, exchange, and clearing standards.
**Stakeholder Engagement & Regulatory:** Lead customer and partner calls around derivatives processes and product issues. Participate in engagements with CFTC, NFA, exchanges, and clearing organizations to drive product strategy and ensure regulatory alignment. Report on product status and results to internal and external stakeholders including regional partners and institutional clients.
**Operations & Efficiency:** Improve derivatives operation efficiency by providing solutions and owning metrics focused on margin, clearing, settlement, and trading-risk workflows. Collaborate with operations, risk, and compliance teams to ensure seamless integration between Alpaca's global platform and FCM market infrastructure.
You will work with a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Consulting, and/or starting a startup, preferably within financial services, fintech, or derivatives
- Strong understanding of CFTC and NFA frameworks, FCM market structure, and the listed derivatives landscape
- Demonstrated interest and experience in futures, prediction markets, listed derivatives, or adjacent trading/brokerage infrastructure
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent collaboration abilities
- Business acumen to understand tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility with time and budget constraints
**Nice-to-haves:**
- Experience developing futures, prediction markets, or other listed derivatives products
- Technical background working with APIs, particularly in financial services or trading platforms
- NFA Series 3 or other CFTC/NFA-recognized credentials
- Experience launching or operating inside an FCM, DCM, DCO, or other regulated derivatives venue
- Familiarity with portfolio margin, cross-asset margin, institutional execution, or Prime Brokerage-adjacent workflows
- Experience at fintech, startup, broker-dealer, FCM, or exchange
- Knowledge of prediction market structure, event-contract design, and regulatory overlay
