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Director, Customer Experience, Trading API

Remote
$135,000–$225,000
◆ 8/10 cryptofintechsupportOther
About this role

Alpaca is seeking a Director of Customer Experience to lead customer support for Trading API, focusing on global coverage, data-driven improvements, and team development. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Description

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, totaling 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.

Responsibilities

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
Requirements

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
Conditions & Benefits

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.

Job Details
Salary$135,000–$225,000
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
PostedOct 8, 2026 (4d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptofintechsupportOtherremote
Tech Stack
VIP SupportAI supportBrokerageIntegrationsSeries 7Investing24/5 coverageAutomationGlobal Coverage24/7 coverageCustomer SupportProduct PartnershipService LevelsData-drivenTrading APIAPIsInstitutional SupportTeam DevelopmentSeries 24Escalation PathsKPIs

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