Senior Business Recruiter

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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 9 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. Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

### Your Role As Senior Business Recruiter, you’ll own full-cycle recruiting for high-impact business and operational roles across Alpaca, including brokerage, compliance, finance, go-to-market, strategy, and product functions. You’ll help us scale a global, remote-first organization building brokerage infrastructure and APIs. You’ll partner closely with functional leaders to translate business goals into hiring plans, run a rigorous and candidate-friendly process, and help us attract, assess, and close world-class talent in fintech. ### Things You’ll Do: - Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and hard-to-fill business roles across Alpaca. - Build proactive pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, networking, and talent mapping — especially for specialized fintech profiles. - Partner closely with hiring managers to define hiring strategy, drive interview execution, and keep searches moving efficiently. - Deliver a high-quality candidate experience with clear communication, fast feedback, and thoughtful closing. - Advise stakeholders on market dynamics, compensation, leveling, and hiring competitiveness across global markets. - Use recruiting data and funnel metrics to identify gaps, improve conversion rates, and drive hiring decisions. - Improve recruiting processes and infrastructure, including interview training, ATS hygiene, structured interviewing, and scalable documentation. - Help strengthen Alpaca’s employer brand and how we position opportunities to top talent.

### Who You Are (Must-Haves): - 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including senior-level hiring in fast-paced tech environments. - Demonstrated success hiring for regulated fintech roles (risk, compliance, brokerage ops, tax, finance, legal). - Strong sourcing capability: you’ve built pipelines from scratch and consistently delivered qualified slates for specialized roles. - Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and coach senior leaders while running efficient hiring processes. - Experience building structured and efficient interview processes that improve hiring quality and decision-making. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage senior candidates and stakeholders professionally and credibly. - Data-literate and comfortable using funnel metrics, ATS reporting, and recruiting analytics to drive decisions. - Experience working in remote or distributed teams across multiple time zones.

### 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.

Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto, along with embeddable finance solutions like tokenization and securities lending. It serves retail traders, institutional investors, app developers, and fintech companies worldwide through its API-first platform. The company, originally started in 2015 as a database and machine learning firm, is headquartered in San Mateo, California.