Technical Program Manager, Applied API & Product

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and design to shape roadmaps, technical strategies, and long-term platform direction.
• Translate product vision into clear, scalable technical execution plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution.
• Lead end-to-end execution of cross-functional product and platform programs—from planning through launch and iteration.
• Own timelines, milestones, dependency management, risk mitigation, and accountability across teams.
• Partner with engineering teams to influence architectural decisions and interface definitions for public and internal APIs.
• Understand full-stack systems across client (web, mobile) and server (API, back-end) surfaces to ensure holistic and performant solutions.
• Serve as a central coordination point across product, design, engineering, legal, policy, and go-to-market stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment on priorities and unblock teams through structured execution and consistent communication.
• Deliver crisp and clear updates to technical and executive stakeholders on program health, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Influence product and leadership decisions by representing developer and customer perspectives grounded in deep context.
• Identify systemic inefficiencies and propose new tools or processes to improve product delivery and cross-team velocity.
• Leverage data and AI-powered internal tooling to track progress, surface gaps, and optimize product and developer experiences.

Requirements

• 10–15+ years of experience driving high-impact technical programs in product and platform domains.
• Strong technical acumen across front-end/client technologies, API development, and scalable systems architecture.
• Successfully delivered developer-facing tools or platforms and can advocate for the end-user and developer experience.
• Excellent program management discipline—comfortable managing multiple concurrent efforts, leading complex execution, and bringing clarity to ambiguity.
• Product intuition and can connect user needs to technical tradeoffs and platform decisions.
• Highly structured and empathetic communicator who fosters alignment and moves cross-functional teams forward.
• Curious, hands-on, and thrive in a fast-moving environment with high trust and high standards.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI-powered tools and internal tooling for tracking and optimization.