Product Manager at Alpaca

Your Role: 

The Product team at Alpaca is looking for a Product Manager to define and drive new product initiatives and manage a portfolio of existing products. In this role you will own the product and articulate unmet customer’s needs. The product management team at Alpaca is a small group of people with an intelligent and innovative mindset.

The Product team is 100% distributed and remote.  This role will report directly to the CPO.

Things You Get To Do:

• Understand the users and customers by listening to their stories and shape it into the product.
• Analyze market and business opportunities and define objectives and success criteria.
• Deliver the clarity of the product to ensure the teams build the right product in the right priority.
• Drive product roadmaps, plans, and deliver quality products.
• Understand the constraints and flexibility of the financial business and think out of the box.
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to go-to-market, and ensure the product delivers the intended values.
• Report quantified progress and values that products deliver to the right stakeholders including executive leadership.

 Who You Are (Must-Haves):

• Excited about what Alpaca is building!
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, Consulting, and/or starting a start-up 
• Demonstrated interest/experience in FinTech and  relevant financial services/capital markets, especially trading realm
• Experience with scripting (Ruby, Python, Javascript, etc.) and analytical skills using SQL & BI tools
• Strong communication skills and highly collaborative working with teams virtually
• Business acumen to understand trade-offs between stakeholders and technology feasibility with time & budget constraints
• Core hours follow US market hours: 9-5 eastern time

  Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):  

• Experience and background working on and developing core trading products is a plus 
• Technical background working with APIs