This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Director, API Platform Product Management in United States.
This is a high-impact platform leadership role focused on defining and scaling the API and integration ecosystem that powers external connectivity and data exchange in a fast-growing financial technology environment. You will be responsible for building the vision and strategy for how partners, institutions, and external systems integrate with a complex, data-driven marketplace. Acting at the intersection of product management, technical architecture, and business strategy, you will shape developer-facing APIs that enable scalable, secure, and high-performance integrations. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, compliance, and commercial teams to ensure both technical excellence and regulatory alignment. You will also play a key role in identifying new ecosystem opportunities that drive growth and expand platform adoption. This is a foundational leadership position with the opportunity to build and scale a modern API platform from the ground up.
Accountabilities:- Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the external API platform and partner integration ecosystem.
- Lead the full API product lifecycle including design standards, documentation, versioning, governance, and deprecation policies.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish scalable API architecture, ensuring security, consistency, and strong developer experience.
- Drive integration strategy with external financial infrastructure providers, translating complex domain requirements into clear API specifications.
- Build and manage bidirectional integrations that enable both external access to internal data and ingestion of partner data into the platform.
- Collaborate with compliance and legal teams to ensure all integrations meet regulatory requirements and data handling standards.
- Work with business stakeholders to identify high-value partnership opportunities and support revenue-generating integrations.
- Develop developer experience assets including documentation, sandbox environments, and integration onboarding processes.
- Define and track API platform success metrics such as adoption, onboarding speed, reliability, and commercial impact.
Requirements:
- 8–12 years of experience in product management or technical roles, including at least 3+ years focused on API platforms, developer tools, or integration products.
- Proven experience designing and shipping APIs in API-first, platform, or ecosystem-driven organizations.
- Strong technical fluency with ability to engage in architecture discussions and interpret API specifications confidently.
- Experience delivering integrations that drive measurable business outcomes such as adoption, retention, or revenue growth.
- Strong ability to communicate across engineering, business, compliance, and external partner stakeholders.
- Experience working in regulated or complex environments such as financial services, fintech, or enterprise platforms is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with private market structures or financial instruments is an asset.
- Experience building platform products or API ecosystems in high-growth environments is strongly preferred.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with strong execution and product delivery discipline.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation aligned with experience and impact
- Employee stock option plan providing ownership in a high-growth company
- 100% employer-paid health and dental insurance coverage
- Health and personal spending accounts
- Flexible and collaborative entrepreneurial work environment
- Opportunity to help build a platform product function from the ground up
- Strong career growth potential into senior leadership roles
- Inclusive and high-performance team culture focused on innovation
- Sponsorship, relocation, and immigration support for eligible candidates
- Additional lifestyle and in-office perks depending on location.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
Why Apply Through Jobgether?
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