Senior Product Manager, Technical

Description

The team builds the APIs, frameworks, and data standards behind Agent Ready Tools, which serve first-party and third-party agents within the HCM and WFM Engineering organization of a Fortune 500 company that makes an AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

The team makes company data accessible and buildable across teams at scale through Data Cloud, Headless Consumption, and the company Build. Good fit if you care about data access, developer experience, and tools other teams use daily.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will own key parts of the roadmap for the API platform and data standards. You will work with engineering, product, and business teams to set clear priorities and turn strategy into action, take on ambiguous, higher-impact problems, and help set direction for other product managers and engineers.

Pay ranges: primary location USA.CA.Pleasanton $168,000 USD - $252,000 USD; additional US locations $140,600 USD - $252,000 USD. Base pay varies by location and each offer depends on geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need. The role may be eligible for the company Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus, plus annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during hiring.

Responsibilities

• Build and keep current a deep understanding of the API platform's capabilities, direction, and roadmap.
• Set the roadmap by ranking the customer and business outcomes that matter most.
• Lead alignment with product managers, engineers, and business partners on requirements and priorities.
• Create and use frameworks that judge the value, urgency, and importance of platform features.
• Take in requests from many teams, then make sure each is understood, documented, and weighed against priorities.
• Turn product direction into clear requirements, user stories, success measures, and delivery plans.
• Work with engineering to guide iterative delivery, validation, and testing.
• Share roadmap updates, insights, and trade-offs with business teams and product leadership.
• Work with engineering, go-to-market, and other the company teams to deliver well and drive adoption.
• Use customer feedback and usage data to inform planning and priorities.
• Prepare go-to-market teams by explaining product value, positioning, and customer impact.
• API design and standards: working knowledge of REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven designs such as Webhooks and Kafka or PubSub. Familiarity with the OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) and design-first workflows.
• Developer experience: treat internal and external engineers as customers by defining documentation standards, SDKs, sandboxes, onboarding flows, and self-service key and token provisioning.
• Lifecycle and versioning: define deprecation schedules, backward compatibility, breaking-change handling, and migration paths across API versions.
• Governance and monetization: work with API gateways such as Kong, Apigee, and AWS API Gateway, plus rate limiting, throttling, role-based access control (RBAC), quota management, and consumption-based pricing.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of product management experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with API platforms or developer tools.
• Experience turning customer and business needs into product requirements and roadmaps.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical field.
• Experience building or contributing to strong user experiences at the company or in enterprise software.
• Business influence: you have shaped decisions and won support from technical and business teams on platform priorities and trade-offs.
• Cross-team collaboration: you work with many stakeholders to drive product success.
• Customer advocacy: you have represented customer and developer needs in planning so solutions match real usage.
• Customer empathy: you have listened to customers and users and turned that into product direction.
• Data analysis: you have used data and usage patterns to inform decisions and measure results.
• Decision making: you have weighed trade-offs and made timely calls when priorities conflict.
• Research: you have gathered and combined information from several sources to test product direction.
• Stakeholder management: you have built relationships with people who affect or are affected by a product's direction.
• Strategic thinking: you look past immediate tasks to spot longer-term opportunities and link daily work to the bigger picture.
• Systems thinking: you understand how a change in one part of a technical ecosystem can affect many others.
• You care deeply about your products and build excitement about their potential across the organization.

Conditions

Flex work: you spend at least 50% of your time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners, depending on role. There is no set number of office days, so you can build a schedule around your work, team, and life. Remote home office roles can also join in-office moments that matter.

The company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in line with applicable Fair Chance law.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• The role may be eligible for the company Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus, and for annual refresh stock grants.