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Senior Technical Product Manager – Platform Services

Forge · New York, NY · 3 mo ago
HybridMarketing$169k–$205k/yrFull-time

Platform & API Product Leadership

Own the product vision and roadmap for core platform APIs and services, ensuring alignment with company strategy, engineering capacity, and partner needs.

Define and evolve API strategies that support current consumers while anticipating future scale, growth, and extensibility.

Lead quarterly and multi-year roadmap planning, balancing reliability, performance, developer experience, and delivery velocity.

API Requirements & Documentation

Define clear, testable API product requirements in partnership with engineering, including:

  • Functional behavior
  • Performance expectations
  • Backward compatibility standards

Ensure API documentation is accurate, complete, and usable for both internal and external consumers.

Participate in API design reviews, contributing to:

  • Endpoint design
  • Naming conventions
  • Data contracts

Reliability, Scale & Metrics

Partner with engineering to define and track:

  • SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
  • SLOs (Service Level Objectives)
  • Operational KPIs

Forecast and monitor API consumer growth, including:

  • Call volumes
  • Usage patterns (MoM, QoQ)

Identify scaling risks early and drive proactive product decisions.

Stakeholder & Consumer Enablement

Serve as the primary product interface for API consumers:

  • Internal product teams
  • Partners
  • External integrators

Gather and prioritize consumer needs based on real usage patterns.

Clearly communicate platform decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmap updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technical Execution & Collaboration

Partner closely with engineering, grounding decisions in:

  • System design
  • Data models
  • Tech constraints

Actively engage with APIs using tools like Postman or curl to:

  • Validate functionality
  • Support troubleshooting
  • Improve user experience

Contribute to domain modeling, including:

  • Entity relationships
  • Data ownership boundaries

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