Director, Corporate Actions

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 our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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.

The Director of Global Corporate Actions will own the function end-to-end across U.S. and international markets. This leader will be accountable for daily production, supervisory controls, team performance, incident management, and the systems and operating model required to scale Corporate Actions globally.

• Lead Alpaca’s Corporate Actions organization across mandatory and voluntary events, including dividends, splits, mergers, exchanges, tenders, rights, redemptions, spin-offs, elections, and security lifecycle changes.

• Establish and own the supervisory framework governing Corporate Actions, including clear maker-checker standards, control gates, reconciliations, exception management, escalation thresholds, and evidence of review.

• Hold the team accountable for accurate, timely processing and ensure no material event progresses without required supervisory and system checks.

• Own material Corporate Actions incidents from containment through root cause analysis, remediation, and permanent control or system improvement.

• Partner with Security Master, Trading, Ledger, Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership to eliminate recurring failure modes and strengthen front-to-back controls.

• Drive automation, observability, reconciliation, and exception tooling to reduce manual processing and improve scalability.

• Build a common global operating model across markets, custodians, depositories, currencies, tax regimes, deadlines, and local market conventions.

• Develop the Corporate Actions team, strengthen subject-matter depth and succession coverage, and reduce reliance on tribal knowledge.

Supervisory Controls & Systems Oversight

The Director will own the end-to-end Corporate Actions control framework, ensuring events are accurately validated, reconciled, processed, synchronized across systems, and formally closed.

• Establishing controls over event terms, Security Master data, eligible positions, expected entitlements, elections, withholding, cash, stock, fractions, and