Job responsibilities
- Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
- Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
- Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
- Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
- Serves as the “voice of the customer” to one or more product delivery teams
- Understands and translates business requirements into epics that directly support the organization’s initiatives
- Develops and leverages framework for comparing and prioritizing customer problems
- Collaborates with engineering, architecture, design, and stakeholders to create a product roadmap that reflects the outcomes and key results set by the business
- Works directly with design team to develop an experience that delights platform customers while balancing the security and control requirements of the firm
- Builds relationships with other platform teams within the firm & identify opportunities for integrations/inner sourcing with the API Management Platform
- Leads Build vs. Buy decisions with engineering partners
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
- Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Demonstrates proficiency in written & verbal communication, specifically in translating technical API related concepts to a broad audience
- Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with leaders or “manage up”
- Advanced understanding of identity and access management concepts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: able to present facts, thoughts and ideas in a clear, concise and convincing manner to senior leaders, key stakeholders, employees and third-party vendors.
- Results-oriented and self-motivated; self-starter with capability to work independently while managing multiple projects simultaneously, with appropriate sense of urgency
- Demonstrated ability to make data-driven decisions, take accountability for those decisions while candidly challenging the status quo to drive the right customer journey outcomes.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
- Experience delivering software on a large-scale distributed computing system.
- Experience developing/enhancing a platform capability that primarily serves software engineers
- Experience developing/enhancing a product that primarily serves software engineers