Senior Business Recruiter
Who We Are: 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, totalling 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.
Our Team
Members: We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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. Your Role 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. Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): Experience recruiting in or for broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing/settlement, market data, risk/margin, or trading infrastructure companies. Experience partnering on technical or infrastructure hiring alongside engineering recruiting teams. Familiarity with global hiring dynamics (NA/EMEA/APAC/LATAM), including regional talent markets and compliance considerations. Experience designing or scaling recruiting programs such as interview training, referral programs, employer branding, or process improvement initiatives. Experience with Greenhouse (or similar ATS) and building scalable recruiting workflows and dashboards. 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. Recruitment Privacy Policy Apply To This Job