Chief Risk Officer, Broker Dealer

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Ourrecent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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, totalling over 6 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.

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

As the Chief Risk Officer, Broker Dealer Oversight for Alpaca Securities LLC, you’ll partner with the COO, CCO, and the rest of the brokerage leadership team to develop and drive to completion processes for both oversight and quality control of all brokerage operations functions. You will implement risk monitoring and establish key risk indicators to facilitate ongoing monitoring of all business aspects.

Another critical aspect of this role will be Issues Management. This will include setting up the framework to identify issues posing a risk to the firm. You will ensure that these issues are properly risk-rated and prioritized so that they can be addressed effectively. This means working closely with Product, Product Ops, and the Engineering teams. Progress on issues will be reported out to Alpaca leadership on at least a monthly basis.

Alpaca Securities maintains a distributed, remote work environment. This role will report directly to the President of Alpaca Securities LLC.

• Developing, maintaining and adapting Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) as the business evolves and scales
• Performing independent reviews and stress testing
• Designing policies and control frameworks
• Assessing new products or business changes
• Providing 2nd line of defence challenge to front-office risk management
• Identify and manage risks to the organization, its employees, stakeholders, assets, and operations, and develop risk management strategies, objectives, and policies that establish the framework, tools, and procedures to achieve successful risk identification and management within best practice standards.
• Be the primary owner for Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and internal testing program.
• Be the primary owner for due diligence related to onboarding and offboarding of correspondents/partner firms.
• Research incidents and issues with the appropriate person(s) and document from identification to resolution.
• On an ongoing basis, recommend and implement changes to firm policies and procedures as necessary.
• Provide guidance and training to promote risk control awareness, ownership and accountability.
• Monitor and analyze risks within the business units, including losses due to unsecured debits, and effectively provide reports to the Firm’s Risk and Controls Committee.
• Engage and develop effective working relationships to support cooperative responses to risk management matters and issues.
• Assumes responsibility for special projects; gathers data and prepares reports for…