Alpaca
Product Manager, Digital Assets - Crypto
Remote - Americas. Posted a month ago
The role
The Product Manager will own Alpaca's regulated crypto trading and yield surface. This includes the spot or perps exchange, fiat and stablecoin funding rails, staking/lending, and the crypto API.
What you will do
- Own the spot crypto exchange product surface including pair coverage, order types, and availability.
- Lead integrations to unlock funding and liquidity with LPs and custodians.
- Own the stablecoin funding flow.
- Work with partners to understand crypto needs for fintechs, neobrokers, and institutional platforms.
- Expand supported networks and coins.
- Drive staking and lending / earn product design within regulatory and ops constraints.
- Shape a crypto API surface for developers and agents.
- Lead and execute the product case for crypto perps.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup.
- 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.
- Experience shipping in a regulated environment alongside Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations.
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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).
- Experience preferably within crypto exchanges, brokerage, market making, custody, or financial infrastructure.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
About the company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. It serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs.