Manager / Senior Manager, Total Rewards & Key Projects

Who We Are:

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.

Our Team Members:

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.

Your Role:

We are looking for a Total Rewards leader who is deeply fluent in compensation and equally energized by the analytical, cross-functional work that comes with building a growing company.

This is a hands-on Manager / Senior Manager role. Compensation is the center of gravity, not the whole job. You will own core Total Rewards work across a global, remote workforce, and you will also take on high-impact People work including headcount planning, people budgeting, and M&A from a People / Total Rewards lens — plus other analytical projects that sit outside a traditional TR box. Those projects will often be analytical: turning messy data into decisions, standing up new processes, and helping the company scale how we hire, pay, and support people.

You will work across regions, entities, and time zones — not as a single-country specialist. You will partner closely with People, Recruiting, Finance, and business leaders. You will be the person others come to for clean data, sound judgment, and a clear recommendation.

The level (Manager vs. Senior Manager) will be determined by the depth of your experience and the scope you are ready to own.
Things You Get To Do
Total Rewards

- Own day-to-day compensation programs across a global, remote workforce, including base pay, variable pay, and equity-related processes.

- Partner with leaders on offers, promotions, leveling, and pay decisions so recommendations are consistent, market-aware, and aligned to our philosophy.

- Build and maintain job architecture, including job IDs, job families, levels, and titles, so hiring, pay, and reporting sit on a clean foundation.

- Price roles and refresh ranges using multiple market data sources, survey submissions, and internal data. Comfort working across imperfect, overlapping datasets is essential.

- Run or support compensation cycles (merit, bonus, equity, and related processes), including modeling, manager enablement, quality checks, and close-out reporting.

- Implement, configure, and support compensation platforms and related tools. You do not need to have used a specific vendor; you do need to have stood up or been a primary operator of a compensation system, and to keep it accurate as the company changes.

- Advise on global benefit structures and how they interact with total rewards. You will not be expected to be a b