Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Senior Product Manager, API
Alpaca
full-time
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Origin: • 🌎 Anywhere in the World
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Senior
Tech Stack
GRPC
About the role
- Own the roadmap and development of Alpaca’s core Broker, Trading and Market Data APIs
- Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Alpaca’s core APIs, including standards for authentication/authorization, error handling, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation strategy
- Serve as the primary owner and reviewer for all API changes, ensuring adherence to standards for quality, consistency, and performance
- Collaborate closely with engineering, security, marketing, and business teams to define, build, and launch new API products and features
- Lead technical discussions on concepts like idempotency and overall API architecture
- Author detailed product requirement documents (PRDs), user stories, and API specifications (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI)
- Work with marketing and developer relations on go-to-market strategies; own and review changelogs and documentation
- Define and analyze key metrics and SLOs to measure success and inform the product roadmap
- Act as the primary product evangelist for Alpaca’s APIs, both internally and externally
Requirements
- At least 5 years of product management experience, with a significant focus on API products and developer platforms
- Proven ability to understand complex technical concepts and work effectively with engineering teams on architecture and design
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles
- Experience writing clear, comprehensive API documentation and working with OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specifications
- Understanding of different API usage patterns and asynchronous flows
- Strong understanding of authentication/authorization (OAuth, API keys, etc.)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders
- Data-driven mindset with experience using analytics tools to track product performance and make informed decisions
- A genuine passion for financial markets and a strong desire to build products that empower developers and democratize access to financial services
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Nice-to-haves: background in engineering
- Nice-to-haves: direct experience working in the fintech or brokerage industry
- Nice-to-haves: experience with trading APIs for various asset classes (stocks, options, crypto)
- Nice-to-haves: familiarity with gRPC, WebSockets, and other API protocols
- Nice-to-haves: experience contributing to or managing open-source projects
- Nice-to-haves: experience working in a globally distributed, remote-first company
- Nice-to-haves: knowledge of institutional trading workflows and requirements
