Senior Product Manager, Api Platform

Job Description
What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries. That’s why we’re looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to join Procore’s journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry.
As a Senior Product Manager, API Platform in our Ecosystem Division, you will be responsible for the strategy, definition, usability, and performance of our API Gateway and Integration Platform for internal and external developers. We have developed a robust digital ecosystem that elevates the Procore brand and delivers 550+ strategic partnerships for our customers. To be successful, the technical product manager needs to have technical and business acumen along with a passion for delighting users with simple solutions and engaging digital experiences. You will be valued as a technical subject matter expert among business and engineering partners for your ability to maximize the value of your products and services through thoughtful, data-driven problem solving, crisp definition of MVP solutions, and cross-functional collaboration. If you have a passion for solving complex problems unique to running large, highly scalable, resilient systems, we would love for you to join us!
This position will report to the Group Product Manager of Ecosystem and is based in Austin, TX. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately.
What you’ll do:
Create and drive API strategy and technical product requirements with Architects and Eng leads (API gateway, federation, security, performance, load balancing, throttling, metering, charge models, etc)
Responsible for determining business needs, understanding market demands, technical trends, problem solving and proposing solutions.
Consult across product teams for API design &
implementation best practices
Define requirements for internal dev tooling and API compliance and validation
Define API lifecycle management &
policies at Procore (governance, guidelines, definition of done, breaking change policies, etc)
Own and maintain API gateway traffic reporting and metrics
Create dashboard/reporting requirements and KPIs to measure performance and adoption
Influences decisions by providing technical consultation and direction to stakeholders
Recommend new technology trends and innovative products/features to the team
Measure feature success post deployment and feeds insights back to the team and business partner
Identify and documents technical tradeoffs as well as dependencies and constraints
Effective communications of roadmaps, product delivery milestones, and progress
What we're looking for:
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related discipline;
or comparable work experience. Technical Certifications are a plus
5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years managing APIs, API Gateways, SDKs, or other developer-facing products
2+ years experience with API Security (Auth N/Z) &
Compliance
Experience working with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, and Kong at scale
Strategic, analytical thinker with the ability to make data-driven decisions
Exceptional collaboration, partnership, and influencing skills
Strong prioritization skills of competing needs and tradeoffs to articulate a clear rationale
Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization
Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making
Ability to gain deep understanding of the system architecture and design concepts behind complex, enterprise-class software solutions at high transaction volumes
Talent for designing future-proof solutions with an eye towards future use cases, scalability, and maintainability.
Ability to build consensus across a diverse group of stakeholders