Senior Product Manager - API

Senior Product Manager - API

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core valuesStay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountableand are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

As a Senior API Product Manager, you will own the roadmap, and development of Alpaca's core Broker, Trading and Market Data APIs. You will be the voice of the developer, working to create a world-class, intuitive, and powerful API experience that enables hundreds of businesses globally to build their own financial applications. You will collaborate closely with engineering, security, marketing, and business teams to define, build, and launch new API products and features that drive our mission forward.

Things You Get To Do

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Alpaca's core APIs. This includes establishing and enforcing standards for authentication / authorization, error handling, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation strategy.
• Serve as the primary owner and reviewer for all API changes, ensuring adherence to our standards for quality, consistency, and performance.
• Become an expert on the needs of our developer community and institutional clients.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and launch highly scalable, reliable, and well-documented APIs. You will lead technical discussions on concepts like idempotency and overall API architecture.
• Author detailed product requirement documents (PRDs), user stories, and API specifications (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI) to ensure clarity and alignment across all teams.
• Work with marketing and developer relations on go-to-market strategies to drive API adoption and engagement. You will be the ultimate owner and reviewer of our changelogs and documentation.
• Define and analyze key metrics and SLOs to measure the success of API products, identify areas for improvement, and inform the product roadmap.
• Act as the primary product evangelist for Alpaca's APIs, both internally and externally.

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Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.