Group Product Manager - B2B API Platform (Remote)

Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development.

Responsibilities

• Define and scale Progressive’s next-generation API ecosystem, powering seamless integrations with retailers, enterprise partners, and external developers.
• Own the API product vision, enabling developers and partners, and driving execution across engineering and business teams.
• Define the 3–5 year vision and roadmap for Progressive’s API platform, aligned with company strategy and future platform growth.
• Lead the end-to-end API lifecycle including discovery, design, development, launch, versioning, and deprecation.
• Establish and own API governance, including design standards, documentation quality, security practices, and lifecycle policies.
• Ensure APIs are intuitive, secure, well-documented, and easy for partners and internal teams to adopt.
• Partner closely with Retail Operations, engineering, sales, and customer success to enable retailer integrations at scale.
• Understand retailer technical constraints and integration friction, translating those insights into scalable platform capabilities rather than bespoke solutions.
• Build and maintain reusable integration standards, best practices, and developer enablement resources.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, architecture, security, compliance, legal, analytics, marketing, and go-to-market teams.
• Partner with risk and compliance teams to ensure APIs are designed for regulated fintech environments.
• Support enterprise and strategic partnerships with technical diligence and platform storytelling.
• Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as API adoption, usage, latency, error rates, reliability, and partner satisfaction.
• Participate in incident reviews impacting partners and drive product-level improvements and roadmap adjustments.
• Continuously refine the platform based on data, feedback, and business outcomes.
• Manage and mentor product managers responsible for individual APIs or platform surfaces.
• Establish product management standards, rituals, and best practices across the API portfolio.
• Develop PMs to own day-to-day execution while this role focuses on platform strategy, governance, and scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years product leadership experience in B2B SaaS, platforms, payments, fintech, or API-focused roles.
• 3+ years leading products involving technical integrations (SDKs, APIs, plug-ins).
• Strong understanding of REST, OAuth, API keys, cloud technologies, and CI/CD.
• Proven ability to define and communicate strategic roadmaps.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.