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title: 'Corporate Operations Lead at Alpaca'
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# Corporate Operations Lead at Alpaca 

- **Company:** Alpaca 
- **Location:** North America / EMEA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alpaca/jobs/6172681004

## Job description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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 values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

## Your Role

Make Alpaca scale by owning and resolving the operating constraints Corporate Operations prioritizes.

Your mission is to take high-impact operating constraints from discovery through measurable outcome: drive them to resolution, establish durable ownership with the right long-term owner, then move to the next priority. You parachute into unfamiliar domains (HR, Finance, Engineering capacity, regional operating models, broker dealer bottlenecks, and more), diagnose what's actually limiting scale, create the solution, and stay accountable until the outcome actually changes. You are a builder-operator, not a coordinator. You work on the problems Corporate Operations has prioritized as highest-value for the company right now.

Things You Get To Do:

- Own prioritized constraints end-to-end. Take cross-functional operating problems from zero context through measurable outcome. When the constraint is removed and the fix persists, you move on. You do not hold permanent territory in any function.
- Work in any domain, including BD ops when it's the bottleneck. This month that might be HR automation or Finance close; next quarter decision delegation or Engineering throughput; later a broker dealer constraint (AML scale, reconciliations, operational readiness) if that's where Alpaca is stuck. Domain expertise is not the job. Systems thinking across unfamiliar domains is.
- Sense → Design → Build → Drive. Measure what's happening, redesign what's broken, create the processes/automation/governance/infrastructure needed (or mobilize Engineering, Product, ORE, or functional teams when that's the right answer), and drive adoption until the outcome changes.
- Partner across the company. Work directly with functional leaders and their teams to mobilize resources and drive adoption. You influence priorities and surface capacity needs; you do not absorb the function or run their day-to-day execution.
- Create non-linear leverage. Ask whether workflow redesign, automation, org design, better decisions, vendor changes, or hiring is the right lever, and use whichever applies. Success means creating leverage so Alpaca needs fewer incremental people to support the same growth in the areas you touch.
- Contribute to company deep-dives. Help establish baselines for velocity, capacity, and friction in the areas you work in.
- Communicate capacity honestly. Be explicit about trade-offs and escalate when scope or priority needs Director or VP input, including when work should be deferred.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

- Builder-operator with end-to-end ownership. Proven track record taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero context to measurable outcome. You don't hand off recommendations and walk away.
- Systems thinker who learns fast. Able to parachute into unfamiliar domains, map workflows/capacity/decision systems, diagnose root cause, and become effective without deep prior subject-matter expertise.
- Influence without authority. Proven ability to mobilize cross-functional teams, partner with senior stakeholders, and drive adoption among people who don't report to you.
- Prioritization and judgment. Able to distinguish root cause from symptoms, focus on what matters, and push back with evidence when scope drifts.
- Analytical rigor. Comfortable establishing metrics, measuring before/after, and using data, not anecdotes, to diagnose problems and prove impact.
- High ownership through implementation. You finish what you start. Adoption and lasting change matter as much as the design.
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional operating initiatives from diagnosis through implementation and measurable outcome.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

- Experience in internal product, strategy/ops, business operations, or operational transformation with strong builder instincts.
- Strong fluency in AI and automation as tools for creating operating leverage.
- FinTech or brokerage exposure is helpful in BD ops contexts. The job is operating pattern recognition, not securities expertise.
- Capability spikes in systems/product build, executive orchestration, or quantitative capacity analysis.

What This Role Is Not:

A PMO project manager, business analyst who hands off recommendations, permanently embedded functional ops leader, process documentation role, product manager owning a product roadmap, or coordinator who stops at diagnoses and handoff. Functional leaders retain their teams and recurring execution; you own the constraint until it is resolved and durable ownership is established. How We Take Care of You:

- 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

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

[Recruitment Privacy Policy](https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf)

## About Alpaca 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alpaca provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure that enable fintechs, institutions, and individual developers to build and scale investing and trading applications across stocks, options, and crypto.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by $320M in total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Silicon Valley, California, USA (globally distributed remote company)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Yoshi Yokokawa (CEO) and Hitoshi Harada (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Brokerage Infrastructure, API Services
- **Target customers**: B2B (fintechs, global financial institutions, broker-dealers, registered investment advisors) and B2C (algo traders, quant funds, retail investors, developers)
- **Mission statement**: "Open financial services to everyone on the planet" — allowing 8+ billion people to access financial markets.

## Products & Services
- **Broker API**: Full-stack, end-to-end brokerage infrastructure service that empowers global fintechs and institutions to build customizable investing applications and platforms. Includes clearing, custody, compliance, and regulatory setups.
- **Trading API**: Allows programmatic traders, retail investors, hedge funds, and prop firms to develop algorithms that automate trading strategies across stocks, options, and crypto. Features REST/FIX integration, real-time market data, and 1.5ms order processing via OMS v2.
- **Tokenization Network**: Enables tokenized equities to trade as one connected market with instant in-kind mint/redeem, deep liquidity, and 24/7 API access.
- **High Yield Cash**: Competitive APY on uninvested USD cash with up to $2.5M in FDIC sweep coverage.
- **Fully Paid Securities Lending**: Enables clients to lend securities for additional yield.
- **24/5 Trading**: Always-on trading with automatic session-aware order routing and real-time overnight data.
- **Self-Clearing Operations**: Full self-clearing broker-dealer (member of DTCC, FICC, OCC, Nasdaq Exchange) providing reduced costs for partners.
- **Paper Trading & Backtesting**: API sandbox environment and backtesting with historical market data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $320 million from top-tier investors
- **Notable Investors**: Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Eldridge, Y Combinator, and angel investors including Joshua S. Levine (former CTO/COO of ETRADE), Nate Rodland (former COO of Robinhood), Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Jacqueline Reses, Asiff Hirjii (former President/COO of Coinbase), Aaron Levie (CEO of Box), and founders of Plaid and Wealthsimple.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over 7 million brokerage accounts opened across 40+ countries
  - 61,000+ monthly active developers (MAD)
  - 250+ employees in 25 countries
  - Self-clearing since 2024; member of DTCC, FICC, OCC, and Nasdaq Exchange (2025)
  - ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU US DPF, CSA Level 1, ICO compliant
  - Excess SIPC coverage up to $30M in securities and $1M in cash per customer

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-first approach**: Easy-to-use APIs with SDKs in Python, .NET/C#, Go, Node, and more; 99.99% system uptime as of January 2026.
- **Full-stack regulatory infrastructure**: FINRA-registered broker-dealer, self-clearing, SIPC member with excess coverage, and multiple international regulatory licenses (Bahamas, Japan, FinCEN MSB).
- **Multi-asset support**: Stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, tokenized equities — all via a single API.
- **Global reach**: Powers financial institutions across 40+ countries including Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, Mexico, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and more.
- **Proprietary technology**: Builds its own technology stack rather than relying on legacy vendors (e.g., open-source MarketStore database for financial time-series data).

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Actively working on new product offerings such as global stocks and index options.
- **Deepening regulatory moat**: Continued investment in self-clearing capabilities and international licensing to serve partners worldwide.
- **Tokenization & digital assets**: Expanding the Instant Tokenization Network and digital asset offerings for 24/7 liquidity.
- **Embedded finance**: Helping fintechs and institutions embed investing features directly into their own platforms.
- **Scaling the developer community**: Growing the 61,000+ monthly active developer base through open-source contributions, community platforms, and educational resources.

## Why Work Here
- **100% remote-first**: Globally distributed team across 20+ countries and almost every time zone; no central office requirement.
- **Global, multicultural team**: "Melting pot of diverse backgrounds" from tech startups to deep financial experience; team members in 25 countries.
- **Culture**: Goal-oriented, radical honesty, empathy-driven, and focused on solving hard problems. Described as "ambitiously creative" with a "last 10% of effort" mentality.
- **Career growth**: Fast-scaling startup with "limitless opportunities" for those looking to challenge themselves and advance.
- **Impact**: Directly shaping the future of finance by disrupting a legacy industry; building infrastructure that enables millions of people to access financial markets.
- **Leadership**: Founded by Yoshi Yokokawa (former Lehman Brothers, Endeavor Entrepreneur) and Hitoshi Harada (former Lead Architect at Greenplum/EMC, PostgreSQL contributor); executive team from Robinhood, Strike, TD Securities, TMX Group.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to work on open-source projects (e.g., MarketStore).

## Sources
1. [alpaca.markets - About Us](https://alpaca.markets/about-us)
2. [alpaca.markets - Homepage](https://alpaca.markets/)
3. [alpaca.markets - Careers/Hiring](https://alpaca.markets/hiring)
4. [LinkedIn - Alpaca](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpacamarkets)
5. [docs.alpaca.markets - About Alpaca](https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/about-alpaca)

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