Product Manager, API Platform
Mountain View, CA - USA
Job Summary
- Own the design and evolution of our public APIs and SDKs including versioning deprecation and the backwards-compatibility promises we make.
- Spec the developer experience end to end: auth onboarding first call error handling rate limiting webhooks and the long tail of edge cases that decide whether someone stays.
- Write code. Build the sample apps run the integrations and feel the rough edges yourself before a customer does.
- Read the docs like a developer whos never seen them then fix the parts that lie or leave things out.
- Dig into support tickets and forum threads for patterns. Treat a recurring question as a design defect not a documentation gap to paper over.
- Set and defend the metrics that matter: time-to-first-call integration success rate API error rates and the ones that actually predict whether a developer ships.
- Lock the API contract and requirements before engineering starts building and hold the line when someone wants to bolt on scope mid-flight.
- You have 5 years of product management experience ideally in platform developer experience API SDK or partnership-driven products
- You are deeply technical and comfortable working through API contracts request payloads logs telemetry and implementation tradeoffs with engineers
- You have built or led APIs and SDKs that are robust scalable and easy for external developers to adopt
- You have strong product taste for developer interfaces and care about clear abstractions consistent resource design and machine-readable errors
- You know how to think from the developers point of view and can quickly spot where documentation workflows or product behavior become confusing
- You have worked directly with customer and partner developers and know how to translate their needs into better platform products
- You have experience integrating products with third-party enterprise applications and understand what it takes to make those integrations reliable in production
- You write clearly and value concise specs accurate documentation and product experiences that tell developers what to do next
- You define success with metrics and can track adoption usability and business impact for developer-facing products
- You are excited about AI and motivated by helping customers and partners build more effectively with it
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)
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Required Experience:
IC
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