Head of Canada & Product Manager, Market Data
About the role
Who We Are
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 institutional-grade APIs.
Your Role
We're seeking a Lead Product Manager, Market Data to define and own Alpaca's market data strategy—both as a capability that powers our platform and as a standalone, revenue-generating product line.
This role is equal parts strategy and delivery. You'll decide what data we source, how we package and price it, what we build versus buy – and then ship the APIs, feeds, and tooling that partners and internal teams depend on every day.
What You'll Walk Into
- Multiple new exchange onboardings in flight, each with its own licensing, entitlement, and redistribution constraints.
- A pricing and packaging model that needs rethinking as we expand across asset classes and geographies.
- Partners asking for data we don't serve yet — consolidated feeds, historical datasets, derived analytics — you'll be building those requests against cost and commercial upside.
- Internal teams (trading, algo routing, compliance, clearing) consuming market data with no product owner ensuring coverage keeps pace.
Things You Get To Do
- Negotiate or inform negotiations on exchange licensing, redistribution rights, and entitlements as Alpaca onboards new exchanges and asset classes — you'll talk to vendors and global venues directly.
- Assess build-vs-buy for data infrastructure: where do we source from third parties, where do we invest in proprietary collection and normalization, and where do we create derived or value-added data products.
- Build the commercial model: define pricing and packaging (real-time vs. delayed, depth-of-book tiers, historical datasets, derived analytics) and work with sales to grow market data revenue.
- Own the competitive position: understand how dedicated market data providers price and differentiate, and identify where Alpaca's bundled brokerage-plus-data model creates a defensible edge.
- Own the developer experience for market data APIs (REST, WebSocket/SSE, historical endpoints) — coverage, latency, reliability, and documentation.