Global Director of Operations, Crypto

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Alpaca

Worldwide
Full-TimeWorldwide

Job Description

Your Role

This role is position is for an experienced trading operations manager with automated trading and middle and back office experience. This includes

• leading our US spot exchange operations (Alpaca Crypto LLC)

• leading our Bahamas spot and derivatives exchange operations (AlpacaX Crypto Limited)

• building and maintaining our internal trading desk

Things You Get To Do

You will build and manage a globally distributed team of trade ops associates providing 24/5 service coverage.

You and your team

• Directly engage with our customers, providing a world-class service

• Review, identify and resolve trade differences

• Process trade corrections and cancellations

• Inventory account reconciliation

• Provide input into new procedures and processes as well as revisions to existing operations procedures and processes

• Manage our trading desk (internal market maker) and work with engineering to build and monitor trading systems performing automated hedging strategies

• Manage our global fiat banking relationships

• Maintain relationships with liquidity providers, token projects and all our vendors

• Assist with financial and regulatory audits

• Work closely with engineering to bring industry-leading crypto products to market

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• Experienced running middle/back office trade operations for a brokerage or crypto exchange

• Built and managed a globally distributed customer service focused team providing world-class 24/5 service coverage

• Experience trading crypto professionally

• Experience in US crypto regulations

Who You Might Be (Nice-To-Haves)

• Quant research or have previously run a trading desk

• Entrepreneurial experience as co-founder / founding team of a startup

• Operated within a SOC 1/2 Type 2 certified environment