API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Content Marketing Manager

Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
Apply to Alpaca and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.
Apply to role ›

About the role

Alpaca is a series A fintech startup that’s raised over $21M in funding. Alpaca builds an API for stock trading that enables developers across the world to build trading algos, applications, and brokerage services.    Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors including Spark Capital, Portag3, Social Leverage, Elefund, Y Combinator, and highly experienced industry angel investors. We are also a very tech-enthusiastic team with notable track records in open source and startup communities.

We’re looking for a Content Marketing Manager with a strong developer background to lead Alpaca’s content strategy on web, blog, learn, podcasts, research, social, and our contributor network. We’re looking for a thought leader with experience establishing a cohesive content strategy, understanding the market, business, and trends, and the ability to grow developer traffic to web properties. This role is highly collaborative and in order to succeed, must work cross-functionally across many teams including but not limited to Product, Compliance, Engineering, Community, and more.

Scope of Work & Responsibilities

  • Create and execute a comprehensive developer content strategy and content calendar.
  • Write, code-review, record, build and ship content that serves developers online.
  • Oversee and grow the developer contributor content program.
  • Act as a strategic liaison between Engineering and developer community by providing continuous community feedback to improve Alpaca's products and create new developer resources.
  • Work with Marketing, Product, and Sales to provide expertise and guidance to the developer community.
  • Collaborate on developer campaigns with Marketing teams such as PR & Communications, Acquisition, and Lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with growth marketing and self-service team to improve the self-service developer flow.
  • Establish metrics and Key Performance Indicators around the impact of the developer content.

Experience & Qualifications

  • 3+  years of combined experience in software development and creative and technical content development.
  • Professional experience working with or alongside APIs and developers enough to do code reviews.
  • Experience or familiarity with one or all of the following languages: Python, Node, Go, C#.
  • Proven experience with professional writing with a clear point of view.
  • Capable of performing as a compelling storyteller who can engage and educate the developer community.
  • Proven ability to influence and work cross-functionally.

Bonus Experience

  • Experience building online communities or managing community advocacy programs is a plus.
  • Experience with SEO content marketing and KPIs is a plus.
  • Familiarity or interest in FinTech, financial markets, algorithmic trading, quant trading, investing applications. FinTech work experience is a plus.
  • Excitement about Alpaca and democratizing access to global markets is a plus!

Why you should join Alpaca

Alpaca is a hyper growth financial technology company that is democratizing global access to financial markets starting with our API-first stock brokerage. In just two years, billions of dollars of securities are traded every month via our API and rapidly increasing.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Spark Capital, Portag3, Social Leverage, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open source and startup communities.

Alpaca
Founded:
Team Size:123
Location:San Mateo, CA
Founders
Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada
CTO
Yoshi Yokokawa
Yoshi Yokokawa
Founder