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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 operates as a licensed financial services provider with institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading, supporting over 10 million brokerage accounts.
You will own Alpaca's tokenization product surface, centered on the Instant Tokenization Network (ITN) and the issuer, authorized participant, market maker, and broker experiences built on top of it. This is a strategically critical role requiring deep partnership with engineering, compliance, legal, operations, partnerships, and the broader product team to ship regulated tokenization infrastructure at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
**Product & Strategy**: Drive the product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for the tokenization surface. Own flagship initiatives end-to-end—including mint and redeem flows, settlement and custody decisions, and on-chain issuance for partners. Prioritize ruthlessly across partner demand, regulatory constraints, engineering capacity, and commercial upside with clear yes/no/not-now framing. Lead build-vs-buy, partner-vs-direct, and onshore-vs-offshore tradeoffs across tokenization infrastructure.
**Partnerships & Growth**: Run discovery with issuers, authorized participants, market makers, broker-dealers, exchanges, custodians, and institutional clients. Own the AP and issuer experience—documentation, sandbox parity, onboarding workflows, exception handling, and operational loops. Translate partner needs into sequenced product decisions without over-promising; represent tokenization credibly in partner conversations alongside BD and Sales. Shape broker enablement (APIs, SDKs, docs, reference integrations) so broker partners and fintechs can access tokenized equities.
**Regulatory & Policy**: Partner with Legal and Compliance on transfer-agent, broker-dealer, custody, AML, and tokenized-securities frameworks; land regulatory requirements cleanly into product and ops design. Surface early signal on policy and competitive moves in tokenized securities and RWA—feed them into the Digital Assets roadmap before rules or rivals force a scramble. Align Engineering, Ops, Finance, Risk, BD, and leadership behind a single tokenization roadmap; escalate tradeoffs early and unblock the team.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent
- 6+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup, with senior-level ownership in tokenization, digital assets, brokerage, exchanges, market infrastructure, or capital-markets technology
- Demonstrated ownership of tokenized securities, RWA issuance, on-chain settlement, or closely related regulated digital-asset products at production (or near-production institutional) scale
- Strong understanding of equity and capital-markets market structure—trading, custody, clearing/settlement, stock loan/borrow, and post-trade operations—and how those workflows map onto blockchain rails
- Experience shipping in a regulated environment alongside Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations; comfortable with ambiguity and real-time tradeoffs, not waiting for perfect alignment
- Proven ability to run partner and 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
**Nice-to-Haves:**
- Direct experience at a broker-dealer, exchange, transfer agent, custodian, market maker, or institutional digital-asset/RWA platform
- Experience with tokenized money market funds, tokenized securities, RWA issuance, or other regulated tokenized-asset products
- Prior work on RFQ and atomic settlement flows
- Background combining regulated financial product context (broker-dealer, exchange, custodian) with crypto-native infrastructure
