Product Owner, API Platform

Product Owner API Platform JD-0049

Key Responsibilities

Own and prioritize the API platform and self-service developer portal product backlog ensuring alignment with business and integration needs. Define API surface area including resources endpoints payloads and error models as well as policies for versioning pagination and idempotency. Translate customer and partner integration patterns (including EDI flows) into reusable platform-grade API capabilities for rail and intermodal logistics. Partner with API architects and senior engineers to design integration surfaces security models and performance characteristics that scale. Establish and maintain standards for API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger) developer portal UX and self-service onboarding workflows. Define and manage API lifecycle policies including deprecation sunset versioning and backward compatibility. Collaborate with customer engineering sales engineering and implementation teams to support enterprise customers in adopting APIs and accelerating time-to-integration. Define and track key product metrics (usage latency error rates adoption monetization) to drive continuous improvement of the API platform. Required Skills Proven product ownership experience (812 years) in enterprise B2B SaaS with a strong focus on APIs integration platforms or developer platforms. Deep understanding of REST API design patterns including resource modeling versioning strategies pagination and idempotency. Strong knowledge of API security and access control: OAuth 2.0 API keys scoped tokens and rate limiting. Expertise in integration patterns and eventing mechanisms including webhook vs. polling tradeoffs and reliability considerations. Hands-on experience with API documentation standards and tooling: OpenAPI/Swagger developer portal patterns and developer experience best practices. EDI proficiency particularly with logistics-related messages such asand 997 in rail and intermodal contexts. Demonstrated ability in backlog management for platform products including roadmap creation prioritization and stakeholder alignment. Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce precise user stories acceptance criteria and specifications that engineering can implement without additional translation. Experience defining and supporting API monetization models such as usage-based tiered and freemium-to-paid. Comfort working with highly technical stakeholders (developers integration architects customer engineering and implementation teams). Good to Have Skills Experience with API management platforms (e.g. Apigee Kong MuleSoft AWS API Gateway Azure API Management). Familiarity with event-driven architectures message queues and streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ). Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices related to API deployment testing and observability. Understanding of security best practices beyond auth (e.g. OWASP API Security Top 10 encryption in transit and at rest). Experience with analytics and product instrumentation to measure API adoption usage and performance. Background in transportation logistics or supply chain domains especially rail and intermodal. Knowledge of UX principles for developer-facing products and tools. Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments including collaboration with Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers. Experience Required 8 to 12 years of experience in product ownership or product management primarily in enterprise B2B SaaS with significant API or developer platform responsibility

Required Skills:

Proven product ownership experience (812 years) in enterprise B2B SaaS with a strong focus on APIs integration platforms or developer platforms. Deep understanding of REST API design patterns including resource modeling versioning strategies pagination and idempotency. Strong knowledge of API security and access control: OAuth 2.0 API keys scoped tokens and rate limiting. Expertise in integration patterns and eventing mechanisms including webhook vs. polling tradeoffs and reliability considerations. Hands-on experience with API documentation standards and tooling: OpenAPI/Swagger developer portal patterns and developer experience best practices. EDI proficiency particularly with logistics-related messages such asand 997 in rail and intermodal contexts. Demonstrated ability in backlog management for platform products including roadmap creation prioritization and stakeholder alignment. Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce precise user stories acceptance criteria and specifications that engineering can implement without additional translation. Experience defining and supporting API monetization models such as usage-based tiered and freemium-to-paid. Comfort working with highly technical stakeholders (developers integration architects customer engineering and implementation teams)