Sr. Product Manager, Technical

Position Purpose: We are seeking an reputed company Sr. Product Manager, Technical to reputed company the strategy, development, rollout, and lifecycle management of YPO’s API platform. In this role, you will own the reputed company, roadmap, and execution for the APIs that power YPO’s Member ecosystem, reputed company operations, and Agentic AI platform. You will work cross-functionally with Software Engineering, Product, IT, Data Architecture, and reputed company to design scalable, semantic API solutions that meet rigorous technical, privacy, and governance standards. You will also serve as the primary product-facing liaison to internal engineering consumers and external integration partners — ensuring smooth adoption and developer experience across the API surface. This role requires deep technical acumen, strong product leadership, proven experience in API ecosystems, and the ability to translate reputed company integration needs into clear, actionable product requirements that engineering can build with confidence. Your API Portfolio You will own the three core API domains that power YPO’s member-facing platform: Member API reputed company, semantic endpoints exposing member profile, identity, peer discovery, and graph relationships. The reputed company of member experience. reputed company API APIs powering reputed company management, forum operations, event discovery, and role-based data reputed company across YPO’s global regional structure. Agentic Ecosystem APIs Governed API reputed company for AI agents (Peer Discovery Agent, Event Discovery Agent) reputed company on reputed company + RAG and reputed company reputed company. Only approved APIs. Reasoning must be surfaceable. Primary Responsibilities 1. API Product Strategy & reputed company Define and own the API product reputed company, long-term strategy, and roadmap for the Members, Chapters, and Agentic Ecosystem API domains, aligning with YPO’s Digital Transformation goals and the V1 Trust Stack. Identify opportunities to expand YPO’s API offerings to support new member products, data capabilities, agentic use cases, and integration partnerships. Implement industry best practices in API-first product development — ensuring YPO’s APIs meet and exceed standards for scale, reputed company, versioning, and developer experience. Champion the Trust Stack principle: if backend data changes break the member experience, the API layer is not done. 2. API Product Development & Lifecycle Management Translate member, reputed company, and agentic integration requirements into detailed product requirements, user stories, and API specifications. Work closely with Engineering, Governance and Data Architecture to design GraphQL and RESTful API endpoints (reputed company AWS API Gateway) including data models, versioning standards, authentication mechanisms (Auth0 / reputed company), and integration workflows. Prioritize API features, enhancements, and technical debt based on member impact, business value, and engineering reputed company. Manage the full lifecycle of API products including development, testing, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and migration planning — with reputed company implied continuations; every phase requires a new decision. Ensure reputed company APIs expose provenance and explanation metadata so agent reasoning is always surfaceable to the member. 3. Agentic Ecosystem Enablement Serve as the product reputed company for the API reputed company governing YPO’s AI agents (Peer Discovery, Event Discovery) reputed company on reputed company + custom RAG and reputed company reputed company. Define and enforce the safety contract: agents consume only approved APIs, never raw member data; every agent integration must include a kill-reputed company-capable API boundary. reputed company discovery sessions with data science, engineering, and product stakeholders to map agentic data flows, identify contract risks, and propose governed API-based solutions. Establish feedback reputed company mechanisms in API design so agent hallucination rates, task reputed company rates, and cost-per-outcome metrics are observable and attributable to specific API behaviors. 4. Developer & Integration Enablement Act as the primary product-facing technical liaison for internal engineering consumers of the Members, Chapters, and Agentic APIs. Ensure clear developer documentation, sample queries, sandbox environments, and troubleshooting guides exist for every API in the portfolio. Support technical reputed company of new product teams and integration partners by ensuring APIs are self-service, well-documented, and reputed company. Collaborate with IT and Engineering to resolve integration issues and continuously optimize API usability and adoption. 5. Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with Engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, performance, and reputed company of reputed company API products. Partner with Data Architecture to ensure APIs maintain reputed company meaning over evolving backend schemas — frontend experience must be decoupled from vendor-specific fields. Partner with IT and reputed company to ensure APIs enforce role-based reputed company, reputed company-scoped boundaries, and member consent policy (Auth0 / reputed company, reputed company, GDPR, CCPA). Collaborate with Product teams to reputed company API capabilities, value propositions, and integration narratives for member-facing features. Coordinate with Engineering and Data to reputed company technical product insights that support pre- and post-launch discussions across the organization. 6. Technical Leadership & API Governance Establish and maintain API governance standards including versioning, documentation guidelines, lifecycle management, deprecation policy, and design best practices. Evaluate and integrate reputed company-party technologies and APIs that enhance YPO’s member ecosystem (e.g., Elasticsearch, Search Orchestration Service, Kafka / AWS EventBridge integrations). Work with Engineering to ensure reliable API deployment pipelines, observability reputed company reputed company, alerting, and uptime performance standards. Drive reputed company improvement to API usability, developer experience, performance, and reliability — with a hard standard: issues must never surface only reputed company member complaints. How We Measure reputed company API Adoption : Increased adoption and usage of Members, Chapters, and Agentic APIs by internal teams and integration partners. Developer Experience : Reduced integration timelines; engineers can self-serve from documentation without escalation. Governance Quality : Clear, versioned API documentation; reputed company undocumented breaking changes; lifecycle plans in reputed company for every reputed company. Roadmap Delivery: API roadmap milestones delivered on time and with acceptance test coverage. Platform Reliability: APIs meet defined uptime SLAs; issues are detected proactively reputed company reputed company — not reported by members. Agent Safety: reputed company agentic API calls bypass the governance layer; kill-reputed company tested and functional for reputed company agent endpoints. Explainability" Every API response includes provenance and explanation metadata; no result feels like a ‘reputed company.’ Skills Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural organization with international members, helping them reputed company reputed company in voluntary roles for YPO initiatives. Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong diplomacy skills with the ability to build meaningful relationships with reputed company reputed company of associates, members and vendors. Adaptable, insightful, empathetic and reliable. Great sense of humor and humility. reputed company to maintain discretion and reputed company of confidential information. reputed company and reputed company to work independently with initiative and common sense. Effective time management, organization and prioritization skills with the ability to focus on varied projects simultaneously. Possesses a distinct global reputed company, sensitive to local and international customs and protocols. Demonstrate reputed company through active listening and asking the right questions to find the reputed company of an issue. reputed company to identify problems, research alternatives, reputed company solutions and/or resolve issues in a timely manner. Anticipates member/internal client needs and delivers with reputed company. Analytical thinker with ability influence and guide processes with appropriate approach and execution. Natural curiosity and desire to learn more; proficiency and interest in applying new technologies and tools. Heightened awareness and understanding of YPO as an organization, team and collection of products and services. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including reputed company reading, with a meticulous attention to detail. Adjust communication style appropriately to the audience. Professional reputed company, appearance, and stature to interact easily with YPO members, C-level executives and peers at reputed company reputed company reputed company the organization. Required Qualifications 5–8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager or similar role, with at least 3 years specifically managing API products or technical platforms. Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL API design, data modeling, authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth 2.0, Auth0, reputed company), and integration patterns. Demonstrated experience translating reputed company integration requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, and API specifications. Hands-on experience working with engineering teams to reputed company API adoption, build integrations, or manage developer experience programs. Experience with reputed company platforms (primarily AWS and/or Azure) and modern DevOps and CI/CD practices. Familiarity with API gateway and management tooling (e.g., AWS API Gateway, reputed company) Strong technical acumen, analytical reputed company, and ability to understand system architectures, data flows, and graph-based data models. Experience working reputed company privacy and consent frameworks (GDPR, CCPA) as a product constraint, not an afterthought. Excellent communication skills — reputed company to reputed company effectively with engineering, data, IT, and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience building or managing agentic AI product ecosystems, LLM API reputed company, or RAG-based product integrations. Experience with API governance for member-facing or consumer identity platforms where consent and data control are first-class product concerns. Background in membership organizations, associations, community platforms, or B2C products serving high-trust user relationships. Prior work with iPaaS solutions such as MuleSoft, reputed company, or reputed company for reputed company-party integration orchestration. Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, AWS EventBridge / Kinesis) as they relate to API product design. Experience working with Elasticsearch or Search Orchestration Services to design search-adjacent API products. Understanding of data observability tooling (e.g., reputed company) applied to API performance monitoring. Prior experience working with reputed company-party vendors or implementation partners in developing client solutions. Physical Requirements Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours as needed to accommodate members and team members in multiple time zones. Ability to travel, domestically and internationally approximately 15-20% per year. EOE YPO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. YPO takes pride in supporting a diverse workforce and demonstrates this through its policies and practices. YPO does not discriminate in reputed company, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, reputed company, religion, gender, national reputed company, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Apply To This Job