Product Manager, Crypto

About the role

This role focuses on owning a core crypto product surface, which could include trading, custody, tokenized securities, or on-chain settlement. The Product Manager will make decisions based on ROI, market demand, regulatory factors, and build-vs-buy analysis. A key part of the work involves contributing to the broader crypto roadmap, specifically for B2B and B2B2C interfaces like SDKs and APIs.

A significant aspect of this position is engaging with current and prospective partners, such as broker-dealers and fintech applications, who integrate Alpaca's crypto APIs. The Product Manager will translate partner feedback into product decisions, while also refining the developer experience through API ergonomics, documentation, and SDKs. This ensures a smooth integration process for external developers.

Success in this role means effectively collaborating with engineering to deliver products, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks, and improving operational efficiency within the product surface. The individual will report on product status and results to both internal teams and external stakeholders, including institutional clients, demonstrating clear communication and accountability.

The salary for this position ranges from $90,000 to $150,000 USD.

Skills that matter here

• Product Management: This role requires driving product decisions, defining requirements, and overseeing the delivery of crypto products.
• APIs: The position involves enhancing developer experience for crypto APIs and managing partner integrations.
• B2B products: The role focuses on developing and refining products for business clients such as broker-dealers and fintech companies.
• Crypto: Deep understanding of crypto products, market structure, and regulatory landscape is essential for this role.
• Developer experience: A key responsibility is to improve the usability and documentation of APIs and SDKs for developers.
• On-chain settlement: The Product Manager may own a product surface related to on-chain settlement and payment rails.

Who this role suits

• Someone who is passionate about expanding crypto infrastructure for financial products.
• An individual with a strong background in product management, engineering, or startup experience, particularly within crypto or financial infrastructure.
• A person who has demonstrated experience shipping B2B and developer-facing products at production scale.
• A candidate with strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of working across diverse teams and with external partners.

From the employer

Product Ownership & Execution:

• Own one core crypto product surface end-to-end: trading and exchange flows, custody and wallet infrastructure, tokenized securities and RWA, or on-chain settlement and payment rails.
• Drive product decisions in your area by analyzing ROI, partner demand, market structure, regulatory constraints, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs.
• Contribute to the broader crypto roadmap with a focus on B2B and B2B2C surfaces — SDKs, APIs, partner enablement, and reference integrations.
• Write product requirements and partner directly with engineers to ship to production at the cadence of a high-growth platform.

Partner Engagement & Developer Experience:

• Run discovery with current and prospective partners — broker-dealers, fintech apps, neobanks, and institutional clients — integrating Alpaca's crypto APIs.
• Translate partner feedback into clear product decisions, including pushing back on requests that do not fit the platform without over-promising or losing partner trust.
• Improve the developer experience for crypto: API ergonomics, documentation, SDKs, and sandbox parity with production.

Compliance & Operations:

• Partner with compliance and legal on product decisions that touch licensing, custody, KYC/AML, market structure, and tokenization frameworks (regulator-facing strategy is led by the Crypto Lead; your seat is shipping execution that lands the resulting requirements cleanly).
• Improve operational efficiency in your surface — reconciliation between on-chain and ledger state, settlement workflows, exception handling — and own the metrics.
• Report timely and accurately on product status and results to internal and external stakeholders, including partners and institutional clients.

Who You Are (Must Haves):

• Excited about what Alpaca is building and passionate about expanding crypto infrastructure for partners building real financial products.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, and/or starting a startup, preferably within crypto, brokerage, exchanges, or financial infrastructure.
• Demonstrated depth on at least one core crypto product surface: exchange / trading, custody / wallets, tokenization, or on-chain settlement. Ideally shipped at production scale.
• Experience building and shipping B2B and developer-facing products: SDKs, APIs, partner integrations. Where developers and partners are the primary customer, not just end users.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with excellent collaboration across engineering, compliance, partnerships, and other product teams.
• Business acumen to understand tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility with time and budget constraints.
• AI-native PM workflow: recurring use of tools like Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM, or custom agents in PRD drafting, customer-call synthesis, data exploration, and prototyping.

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.