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# Director, Customer Experience, Trading API at Alpaca 

- **Company:** Alpaca 
- **Location:** Global (Eastern Time Zone)
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alpaca/jobs/6219938004

## 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:

Alpaca is looking for a Director of Customer Experience to lead and develop the customer-facing support functions across Trading API.

Trading API serves a diverse and increasingly sophisticated customer base, from active traders and developers to trading firms and institutional customers. As we expand our products, markets, and global customer base, the customer experience function needs to scale with the complexity and demands of the business.

This role will lead our existing teams across General Support and VIP Support and evolve how we support customers globally. The Director will build a follow-the-sun operating model, develop the team and its capabilities, establish clear service standards and use data, AI, and automation to continuously improve how we serve customers.

The role will also be a key partner to Product, Engineering, Trading, Operations, and Compliance. Customer interactions provide an important source of insight into where customers encounter friction and where our products and processes can improve. The Director will be responsible for turning those insights into actionable feedback and working across the organization to drive improvements to the customer experience.

We expect this person to spend time understanding the customer experience firsthand, particularly early on. They should develop a deep understanding of how customers use Alpaca, the issues they encounter, and how those issues move through the organization. The goal is to translate that knowledge into a high-performing global function that can scale with Trading API.

## Key Responsibilities

Customer Support and Global Coverage

- Lead and develop the Trading API customer support team
- Build a follow-the-sun model providing 24/5 coverage and ultimately 24/7
- Establish service levels, escalation paths, and effective handoffs across regions
- Ensure timely, high-quality support across Trading API products
- Identify recurring issues and partner across teams to address root causes

Data, AI and Continuous Improvement

- Establish KPIs across service levels, resolution times, customer satisfaction, escalations, and other measures of customer experience
- Build reporting to identify trends, customer friction, and areas for improvement
- Use data to set goals and continuously improve team performance
- Own the use and fine-tuning of customer-facing AI support
- Use AI, automation, and self-service tools to improve quality and scalability

VIP and Institutional Support

- Build a differentiated support model for customers with greater scale, complexity, or support requirements
- Ensure VIP customers have responsive escalation paths for critical issues
- Build strong knowledge of customer integrations, trading workflows, and operational requirements
- Strategize with the Head of Trading to establish a trading desk with smooth handoffs for institutional orders
- Work closely with the business owners responsible for VIP and institutional customer relationships

Customer Experience and Product Partnership

- Build a structured process for identifying recurring customer pain points
- Partner with Product to improve onboarding, usability, self-service, and the overall customer experience
- Use data and customer feedback to identify and prioritize areas for improvement
- Represent the needs of Trading API customers and identify opportunities to make the platform easier to use
- Measure the impact of customer experience initiatives

Leadership and Team Development

- Lead, coach, QA and develop the existing customer-facing support teams
- Evolve the organization, processes, and staffing model as Trading API scales
- Establish clear goals, accountability, and a data-driven operating culture
- Hire and develop talent as the organization grows
- Stay close to customers and frontline teams while building a function that does not depend on the Director to manage individual issues

## Who You Are

- Experienced building and leading customer-facing teams in brokerage, trading, or financial markets
- Strong understanding of brokerage products, trading workflows, order lifecycle, and the needs of active and institutional traders
- Series 7 required
- Series 24 required, or ability to obtain the Series 24 within an agreed timeframe after joining
- Strong people leader with experience developing existing teams
- Experience managing customer support across multiple regions and time zones
- Highly data-driven with experience establishing and managing against KPIs
- Technically fluent and comfortable with APIs, integrations, and complex customer issues
- Experience using AI and automation to improve customer support
- Strong cross-functional operator who can work across Product, Engineering, Trading, Operations, Compliance, and Sales

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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