Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forge is a technology innovator in the private market, aiming to deliver a richer future through its values of being bold, accountable, and humble. They are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to own and evolve core platform and API capabilities, ensuring alignment with company strategy and managing the product vision and roadmap.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Hands-on experience with documentation review
- Hands-on experience with 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
- Strong understanding of entity relationships
- Strong understanding of data contracts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with regulated platforms (e.g., fintech, financial services, data-sensitive systems)
- Experience working with platform infrastructure
- Experience working with identity and security systems
- Experience working with data services teams
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship