A remote Legal role at Alpaca.
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Reporting to the Vice President, the Commercial Counsel will have exceptional negotiating and drafting experience, product support, and fintech services industry experience. You will need to be able to combine business acumen and creativity to negotiate terms to help launch key business initiatives. You will play an immediate and direct role in complex commercial transactional work supporting our sales, technology, product, partnerships, and enterprise teams.
Draft, review, and negotiate complex financial and commercial agreements, including
Clearing agreements
Crypto and digital asset services agreements
Securities lending and margin documentation
B2B API, SaaS, and embedded brokerage partnerships
Derivatives and futures documentation
Vendor and event contracts
Structure novel partnership arrangements that support Alpaca’s API-first brokerage model.
Develop scalable contracting frameworks, templates, and playbooks to support global expansion.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Work closely with Sales, Compliance, Operations, Finance, InfoSec, and other stakeholders to ensure commercial arrangements align with regulatory and operational requirements.
Strategic Impact
Challenge assumptions and help design creative legal structures that scale financial services infrastructure.
Bring practical, business-oriented solutions to complex cross-border regulatory issues.
Contribute to the evolution of Alpaca’s global legal strategy as we expand across North America, Europe, MENA, APAC, and LATAM.
A financial services institution (e.g., bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, FCM, payments firm, crypto exchange), or
A law firm supporting such clients.
Strong history of commercial and transactional legal work in financial services.
Experience reviewing and negotiating complex financial agreements (clearing, prime brokerage, crypto, derivatives, or similar).
Familiarity with U.S. regulatory regimes applicable to securities, crypto, and/or derivatives (SEC/FINRA, CFTC/NFA)
Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, and clear communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to execution.
Practical, solution-oriented mindset with strong business judgment.
Comfort working with cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
Intellectual curiosity and interest in fintech, digital assets and blockchain technology.
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Alpaca
YC W19Legal
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Alpaca is an API infrastructure and licensed financial services company that allows developers and businesses to offer stock and crypto investing to their end-customers. We work with more than 100 companies across the globe to enable their investing products, and our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet. Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Unbound, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors and founders. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open-source and startup communities.
Source: Y Combinator
