Product Manager, API Platform
Leads the strategy and development of Glean’s public APIs, SDKs, MCP capabilities, and developer experience for customers and partners. Requires 5+ years of product management experience, strong technical fluency, and experience building scalable developer-facing platforms and integrations.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the design and evolution of public APIs and SDKs, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
- Define the end-to-end developer experience, including authentication, onboarding, first API call, error handling, rate limiting, webhooks, and edge cases.
- Build sample applications and integrations, write code, and validate developer workflows.
- Review and improve technical documentation, identifying omissions and inaccuracies.
- Analyze support tickets and forum discussions to identify recurring product and developer-experience issues.
- Define and defend metrics such as time-to-first-call, integration success rate, API error rates, adoption, usability, and business impact.
- Establish API contracts and product requirements before engineering implementation and manage scope.
- Lead API, SDK, MCP, agent interoperability, and partnership strategy for developers and partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in platform, developer experience, API, SDK, or partnership-driven products.
- Strong technical background, including experience with API contracts, request payloads, logs, telemetry, and implementation tradeoffs.
- Experience building or leading robust, scalable APIs and SDKs for external developers.
- Strong product judgment for developer interfaces, resource design, abstractions, and machine-readable errors.
- Experience working directly with customer and partner developers and translating their needs into platform products.
- Experience integrating products with third-party enterprise applications and operating reliable production integrations.
- Clear technical writing skills and appreciation for concise specifications and accurate documentation.
- Ability to define and measure adoption, usability, and business impact for developer-facing products.
- Interest in AI and helping customers and partners build with AI.
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary: $175,000–$195,000.
- Variable compensation, equity, and benefits may be available depending on the role.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Generous paid time off.
- 401(k) plan.
- Home office improvement stipend.
- Annual education and wellness stipends.
- Company events and daily healthy lunches.
Skills
Product Management, Public Apis, SDKs, API Design, Mcp, Developer Experience, Api Contracts, Authentication, Webhooks, Telemetry, Api Versioning, Api Documentation, Enterprise Integrations, AI
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