# Senior Technical Product Manager – Platform Services

**Company:** [Forge](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forge)
**Location:** Denver, CO
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $135k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** APIs, Postman, Curl, Slas, SLOs, API Design, Api Documentation, System Design, Data Models, Domain Modeling
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> Owns product vision, roadmap, and strategy for core platform APIs and services. Defines requirements, ensures reliability/scalability, collaborates with engineering and stakeholders on API evolution. Requires 6+ years PM experience with technical platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### 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, SLOs, 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, technical 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.

## Qualifications
- 6+ years of product management experience, with strong ownership of technical platform or API-driven products
- Proven experience managing API roadmaps in production environments
- Hands-on experience with API requirements definition, documentation review, API design tradeoffs
- Experience defining and operationalizing SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics
- Ability to forecast and manage API usage growth and scaling considerations
- Experience working with diverse API consumer personas and prioritizing competing needs
- Familiarity with API tools (e.g., Postman, curl)
- Strong understanding of domain modeling, entity relationships, data contracts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience with regulated platforms (e.g., fintech, financial services, data-sensitive systems)
- Experience working with platform infrastructure, identity and security systems, data services teams

## Compensation
- For residents of Denver, CO: $135,000-$165,000 + annual bonus

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