Alpaca is hiring a Product Manager – Brokerage – EU for a remote position that can be performed from locations listed as Remote – Global Anywhere.
The role focuses on expanding Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure across European Union markets, including equities, ETFs, derivatives, market connectivity, securities lending, tax reporting and tax-wrapper products.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered financial technology company that provides brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, cryptocurrency, fixed income and other financial products.
Through its subsidiaries, Alpaca operates as a licensed financial services company serving financial institutions across multiple countries. Its technology is used by broker-dealers, investment advisers, wealth managers, hedge funds and cryptocurrency exchanges.
The company has a globally distributed team of more than 400 employees working across countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Alpaca says it is backed by approximately $400 million in funding from a group of global investors.
Job Details
- Employer: Alpaca
- Position: Product Manager – Brokerage – EU
- Location: Remote – Global Anywhere
- Job Type: Product Management
- Work Arrangement: Remote
- Experience: 5+ years preferred
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, finance or an equivalent field
- Primary Market: European Union
- Language: English
About the Role
The Product Manager will help Alpaca expand its brokerage infrastructure across European Union markets.
The successful candidate will be responsible for defining product strategy, developing the regional roadmap and working with engineering teams, regulators, partners, operations teams and institutional clients.
The position involves both strategic product planning and hands-on delivery. The Product Manager will help determine which capabilities should be developed internally, which should be acquired or integrated through partners, and how Alpaca should expand its brokerage offering across different European markets.
The role also involves working with European regulatory frameworks and market infrastructure, including MiFID II, MiFIR, ESMA requirements and national regulatory and tax frameworks.
Key Areas of Responsibility
The Product Manager will work on several areas of Alpaca’s European expansion, including:
- Expanding EU market access while meeting applicable regulatory requirements.
- Developing brokerage capabilities for equities and ETFs.
- Building connectivity to European trading venues and market infrastructure.
- Evaluating and integrating local European brokerage partners.
- Managing cross-border onboarding and passporting requirements.
- Developing tax-wrapper account functionality.
- Supporting tax-lot and cost-basis tracking.
- Managing dividend withholding and withholding-tax reclaim processes.
- Developing country-specific tax reporting capabilities.
- Coordinating Alpaca’s global platform with European market infrastructure.
What You Will Do
The successful candidate will:
- Own brokerage products designed for European markets.
- Manage the EU tax and tax-wrapper product area from development through implementation.
- Define wrapper eligibility and contribution rules.
- Oversee tax-lot and cost-basis tracking requirements.
- Develop solutions for withholding, tax reclaim and local reporting.
- Analyze market competition, regulatory requirements, ROI and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Develop and execute the European product roadmap.
- Write product requirements and work closely with engineering teams.
- Develop features that meet European regulatory and market requirements.
- Improve brokerage operational processes related to settlement, custody and clearing.
- Participate in customer discussions involving brokerage products and processes.
- Turn customer and market feedback into product improvements.
- Report product progress and results to internal and external stakeholders.
- Work with local operations teams to integrate Alpaca’s platform with European market infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, finance or an equivalent field.
- At least 5 years of experience in product management, engineering, consulting, entrepreneurship or a related field.
- Experience or demonstrated interest in brokerage, capital markets or financial technology within the EU.
- A strong understanding of MiFID II and MiFIR.
- Knowledge of ESMA and the European capital markets environment.
- An understanding of how national tax and tax-wrapper rules affect financial product design.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance stakeholder requirements, technology limitations, budgets and timelines.
- An interest in financial infrastructure and Alpaca’s expansion across Europe.
Preferred Qualifications
Additional experience that may be beneficial includes:
- Experience developing brokerage products for European markets.
- Technical experience working with APIs.
- Experience with financial services or trading platforms.
- Familiarity with CSDR, EMIR, T2S or central securities depository connectivity.
- Experience developing tax-wrapper or tax-reporting products.
- Knowledge of products such as PEA, PEA-PME, ISK or PIR.
- Experience with tax lots, withholding and local tax reporting.
- Experience with cross-border or passporting investment products.
- Knowledge of additional European languages.
- Experience working for a fintech company, startup or EU-authorized investment firm.
Salary and Benefits
Alpaca lists several benefits for employees, including:
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- A one-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
- A USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.
Specific compensation may depend on the candidate’s location, experience and applicable employment arrangements.
Is This Job Open to International Applicants?
The vacancy is listed as Remote – Global Anywhere, which indicates that Alpaca accepts applications for the role from locations within its global remote hiring framework.
However, “Global Anywhere” does not automatically mean that Alpaca will provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for every country.
Applicants should confirm during the recruitment process whether Alpaca can legally employ them in their country of residence and whether relocation or visa sponsorship is available if required.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply through Alpaca’s official careers or recruitment page and review the complete vacancy requirements before submitting an application.
Applicants should ensure that their CV clearly demonstrates their experience in product management, fintech, brokerage, capital markets, financial APIs and European regulatory frameworks where applicable.
How to Tailor Your CV
For this position, your CV should emphasize experience that directly relates to European financial technology and product development.
Highlight:
- Product management experience.
- Brokerage or capital-markets experience.
- Fintech projects.
- Financial APIs and trading platforms.
- EU financial regulations.
- MiFID II and MiFIR.
- ESMA-related work.
- Tax reporting or tax-wrapper products.
- Cross-border financial products.
- Working with engineering and technical teams.
- Product strategy and roadmap development.
- Customer discovery and stakeholder management.
- Experience launching or scaling financial products.
Use measurable achievements where possible. For example, mention the size of a product portfolio, number of users or clients supported, revenue generated, markets launched, integrations completed or operational improvements delivered.
Important Note for Applicants
This is a specialized product-management position. Applicants should carefully compare their professional experience with the requirements before applying, particularly the experience requirements involving product management, financial services, brokerage, fintech and European markets.
The vacancy is remote, but applicants should independently confirm employment eligibility, location restrictions and any immigration or work authorization arrangements with Alpaca.
Official Application
Applicants should apply through Alpaca’s official recruitment platform and review the current vacancy details before submitting an application.
Disclaimer: OpportunityShape shares job opportunities for informational purposes. We are not the employer or recruitment agency for this position and do not guarantee employment, visa sponsorship, relocation assistance, work authorization or any other outcome. Applicants should verify the job details, eligibility requirements, location restrictions, compensation and application process directly with Alpaca before applying.
