Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, providing comprehensive trading solutions for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. With a focus on innovation and accessibility, Alpaca offers institutional-grade APIs that serve hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries, including broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges. The company manages over 10 million brokerage accounts, demonstrating its significant footprint in the financial technology sector.
Our diverse and talented team comprises engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals committed to our mission of opening financial services to everyone worldwide. Alpaca actively contributes to open-source projects and fosters a vibrant community of developers, continuously enhancing our award-winning API and infrastructure. Backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors such as Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, and Y Combinator, Alpaca is positioned at the forefront of financial innovation.
With a global team of over 400 members working remotely from various countries including the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, and the UK, Alpaca values flexibility, diversity, and a collaborative culture aimed at transforming the future of brokerage services.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Staff Data Scientist, Growth, to lead and shape how Alpaca measures and accelerates growth across the entire customer journey—from acquisition and activation to retention and monetization. As the most senior individual contributor in growth data, you will define the technical direction and establish the North Star metrics that drive our growth initiatives. You will be responsible for building and scaling the experimentation and metrics platform that supports data-driven decision-making across teams.
This role offers a unique greenfield opportunity to identify impactful problems, design innovative solutions, and influence the company's growth trajectory. You will work closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering teams to connect product behavior, marketing efforts, and lifecycle engagement into a cohesive growth model. Your insights will help make growth analytics more self-serve and accessible for the entire organization, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate is someone who excels at thinking in funnels, cohorts, and loops, loves experimentation, causal inference, and has a passion for turning data into actionable insights that fuel rapid growth in a dynamic, global brokerage infrastructure environment.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in growth analytics, product analytics, or data science with a focus on growth metrics
- Strong background in statistical analysis, experimentation, and causal inference
- Hands-on experience with funnel and cohort analysis including acquisition, activation, retention, churn, and LTV modeling
- Experience designing and implementing experimentation frameworks for trustworthy A/B testing and incrementality studies
- Familiarity with marketing measurement techniques such as attribution, incrementality, and marketing-mix modeling
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, R, or similar data analysis tools
- Experience with building scalable dashboards and defining key growth metrics
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex data insights into clear narratives
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams including Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Finance
- Experience mentoring junior team members and fostering a data-informed culture
- Own the growth funnel from acquisition through retention, identifying high-impact opportunities for expansion
- Design, execute, and analyze experiments to optimize onboarding, activation, funding conversion, pricing, and lifecycle campaigns
- Develop and maintain models for retention, churn, lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, and other core growth metrics
- Use attribution, incrementality testing, and channel analysis to assess and improve marketing effectiveness
- Define and maintain key growth metrics and dashboards, partnering with analytics engineering to ensure data governance
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance teams to inform strategy and influence product development and go-to-market plans
- Translate data insights into compelling visualizations and narratives for stakeholders and leadership
- Operationalize growth analytics by creating self-serve tools and environments for teams to conduct their own analyses
- Mentor junior team members, promote best practices, and contribute to a culture of data-driven growth
- Competitive salary and stock options
- One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires
- Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card to support remote work needs
- Opportunities for professional growth and development in a rapidly expanding global fintech environment
- Flexible remote work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
- Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity employment
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees and applicants are treated with respect and dignity. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic. We believe that diversity drives innovation and success, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join our team.