[Hiring] ERM Program Manager @Alpaca

Role Description

This is a hands-on operator role. You will update risk registers yourself, run functional risk lead check-ins, and produce board materials. No direct reports.

Alpaca has the ERM framework, taxonomy, and scoring model. As ERM Program Manager, you will own execution:

• Intake from functional risk leads
• Risk register hygiene
• Residual scoring with risk owners
• Board-ready reporting on schedule

You report to the CISO / ERM Lead and work closely with the ERM Working Group, functional risk leads, and local entity leaders.

Things You Get To Do:

• Run the ERM intake cycle end to end: Ticket ingestion, functional interviews, surveys, and ad hoc signals from incidents or operational channels.
• Maintain functional and enterprise risk registers in Vanta: owners, inherent and residual scores, mitigations, and status.
• Coordinate functional risk lead check-ins, chase blockers, and normalize inputs into the enterprise view.
• Map risks to Alpaca's 15 L1 categories and Appendix C L2 subcategories to enterprise scenarios for reporting.
• Apply the ERM Risk Scoring Model and push residual validation with risk owners.
• Track mitigation plans, action owners, target dates, and escalations.
• Define KRIs with data owners; use proxy metrics where instrumentation is still maturing.
• Produce leadership and board ERM materials.
• Support ERM Working Group agendas, minutes, and action tracking.
• Operate the intake triage workflow: score, dedupe, register action.
• Build playbooks and templates for functional leads.
• Support local entity quarterly risk updates and escalation hygiene.
• Surface emerging risks (crypto, AI, multi-jurisdiction) for review.

Qualifications

• Mid-career (roughly 5 to 10 years) in operational risk, ERM, GRC, or compliance program management at a regulated financial institution (broker-dealer, fintech, or capital markets).
• Built or run a risk register from intake through reporting. Not framework design only.
• Can coordinate Legal, Compliance, Finance, Product, Security, and Operations stakeholders without direct authority.
• Hands-on GRC platform experience.
• Clear writing: risk statements, executive summaries, board-ready tables.
• SEC/FINRA familiarity or equivalent regulated-environment experience.

Requirements

• Broker-dealer, clearing, or custody operations context.
• High-growth fintech where you stood up ERM while the business scaled.
• Crypto / digital assets risk register exposure.
• Multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction risk consolidation.
• Jira service desk or structured intake workflow design.
• COSO ERM / ISO 31000 implementation as an operator.
• Prior work drafting board or risk committee reporting.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card