alpaca

Director, Digital Asset & Brokerage Operations

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At a Glance

Location
North America
Work Regime
remote
Posted
2026-06-09T12:49:36-04:00

Requirements

Experienced running middle/back office trade operations for a brokerage or crypto exchange

Built and managed a globally distributed customer service focused team providing world-class 24/5 service coverage

Experience trading crypto professionally

Experience in US crypto regulations

Quant research or have previously run a trading desk

Entrepreneurial experience as co-founder / founding team of a startup

Compensation & 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.

Responsibilities

This role is position is for an experienced trading operations manager with automated trading and middle and back office experience.

leading our US spot exchange operations (Alpaca Crypto LLC)

leading our Bahamas spot and derivatives exchange operations (AlpacaX Crypto Limited)

building and maintaining our internal trading desk

You will build and manage a globally distributed team of trade ops associates providing 24/5 service coverage.

Team

Directly engage with our customers, providing a world-class service

Review, identify and resolve trade differences

Process trade corrections and cancellations

Inventory account reconciliation

Provide input into new procedures and processes as well as revisions to existing operations procedures and processes

Manage our trading desk (internal market maker) and work with engineering to build and monitor trading systems performing automated hedging strategies

About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our

recent Series D funding round

brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

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 9 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