Director, API Platform Product Management

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform Hiive brings together buyers sellers and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed pre-IPO companies introducing efficiency transparency and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canadas fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors Hiive is profitable well-capitalized and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

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As Director API Platform Product Management at Hiive you will own the strategy roadmap and execution of Hiives API platform and partner integration ecosystem. This is a new function. Youll define how external technology partners connect to Hiive and how Hiives data and capabilities are exposed through well-designed developer-friendly APIs to connect to us.

This role sits at the intersection of product strategy technical architecture and business development. Youll work closely with engineering compliance and business teams to build an integration layer that accelerates Hiives growth.

Youll report to the CPTO and be a key member of the product leadership team with the anticipation of multiple technical product manager direct reports.

In this role your responsibilities would include:

API platform strategy

• Define the vision and roadmap for Hiives external API platform from initial partner integrations to a broader developer ecosystem.

• Own the end-to-end API product lifecycle: design documentation versioning governance and deprecation.

• Work with engineering partners to establish API design standards and conventions that prioritize developer experience consistency and security.

• Participate in build buy and partner decisions for integration infrastructure

Partner integrations

• Lead the product side of integrations with other financial infrastructure providers.

• Translate complex domain-specific requirements (fund structures capital account data compliance workflows trading mechanics) into clean well-scoped API contracts.

• Build bidirectional integration patterns: both exposing Hiive data to partners and ingesting external data into Hiive.

• Work directly with partner engineering and product teams to design ship and iterate on integrations.

Cross-functional execution

• Partner with engineering to make technical architecture decisions inform build priorities and maintain API quality and reliability.

• Work with compliance and legal teams to ensure integrations meet regulatory requirements (FINRA broker-dealer obligations data handling KYC/AML).

• Collaborate with business teams to identify high-value integration opportunities that drive revenue.

• Coordinate with internal product teams to ensure platform APIs are consistent with the core product experience.

Developer experience and ecosystem

• Build and maintain API documentation developer guides and sandbox environments that make it easy for partners to integrate with Hiive.

• Devise GTM practices for partners to stand-up and maintain integrations into Hiive including version management and changelog processes

• Define success metrics for the API platform: partner onboarding time integration reliability API adoption and revenue attribution.

• Lay the groundwork for a broader developer ecosystem as the platform matures.

Required skills:

• 8-12 years of product management or related engineering experience with at least 3 years owning API platforms developer platforms or technical integration products.

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping APIs at a modern API-first or platform-oriented company

• Deep technical fluency: you can read API specs participate meaningfully in architecture discussions and write clear technical requirements.

• A track record of shipping integrations that drive measurable business outcomes (partner adoption revenue retention).

• Strong communication skills: you can translate between engineering business compliance and external partner teams without losing fidelity.

Preferred skills:

• Experience in private markets wealth management fund administration or cap table management.

• Experience building partner integrations in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (financial services payments or securities preferred).

• Familiarity with private fund structures (SPVs SAFs LP/GP relationships capital accounts)

• Experience with API commercialization or marketplace/ecosystem business models.

• Experience building a platform product function from scratch at a growth-stage company.

Compensation Benefits & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums a health and personal spending account.

• If you are based in Vancouver enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver BC HQ in the heart of downtown with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks an onsite gym and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

• An engaging social calendar including bi-weekly catered lunches bi-weekly Friday bar team workouts annual summer party and holiday party two onsite all-team retreats each year semi-annual team-building events and Hiive Womens Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship immigration and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.

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