Product Manager, Corporate Actions

About the role

In this role, you will manage the corporate actions product lifecycle at Alpaca, a leader in brokerage infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include driving the product roadmap, coordinating with data providers, and ensuring efficient processing of corporate actions as the company expands into new markets.

You will collaborate with various teams, including engineering and operations, to enhance workflows and maintain data integrity. Success in this position means effectively balancing operational efficiency, risk management, and compliance within a regulated environment.

The listed salary range reflects competitive compensation for a product management role in the fintech sector.

Skills that matter here

• Cross-Functional Leadership: This role requires leading and coordinating efforts across multiple teams including Engineering, Operations, and Compliance.
• Data Governance: You will work closely with data systems and vendor feeds to ensure data integrity and observability.
• Regulated Environment: Experience in a regulated setting is crucial for managing corporate actions and compliance.
• Brokerage Operations: You will oversee corporate action processing within a self-clearing brokerage context.
• Corporate Actions: A deep understanding of corporate action processing is essential for driving product development.
• Technical Fluency: You will need to communicate effectively with engineers and understand technical workflows.

Who this role suits

• You have a background in fintech or brokerage with a solid understanding of corporate actions.
• You excel in coordinating cross-functional teams and have strong judgment in risk assessment.
• You are comfortable working with complex data systems and enjoy collaborating closely with engineers.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are adept at managing multiple priorities.

From the employer

Your Role

• Own the corporate actions product lifecycle at a rapidly scaling self-clearing broker-dealer.
• Drive the product roadmap for announcement capture, entitlement calculation, mandatory and voluntary event processing, payouts, and exception handling.
• Own relationships with corporate action data providers.
• Design staged automation for mandatory corporate actions and pre-reconciliation.
• Deliver entitlement worksheets, partial processing, and dashboards for processing time, load, progress, and credited amounts.
• Coordinate the corporate-action work required for newly launched international markets.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to prevent conflicts across Security Master, brokerage, and ledger systems.

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• Deep working knowledge of brokerage corporate action processing — announcement sources, record/ex/pay dates, entitlements, mandatory vs. voluntary events.
• Proven track record in Product Management or technical program management at a fintech, brokerage, or financial infrastructure company.
• Enough clearing depth to reason about stock record, ledgers, settlements, and books and records.
• Exceptional ability to coordinate across Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Tax, Finance, and Legal.
• Comfortable working with data systems, vendor feeds, reconciliation workflows, and partnering closely with engineers on observability and data integrity.
• Strong judgment to weigh risk, operational efficiency, tech feasibility, time, and budget in a regulated self-clearing environment.

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.