Sr Technical Product Manager (Open API)
Datasite

Datasite is where deals are made. We provide the data rooms and SaaS technology used in M&A and other high-value transactions, to deliver projects in more than 170 countries. Carrying that success into the future is all about you. Your useful skills, your unusual experience, your unique ideas. Everyone here brings something unexpected. What's yours? Invest your talents in us, and we'll return the compliment.

Job Description:

We are looking for a customer-centric technical Product Manager with a love of APIs to join our distributed team. As a key contributor, you will be detail-oriented, but also capable of seeing the bigger picture. This is an opportunity to innovate in a complex space and will suit someone with a passion for collaboration, problem solving, evidence-based decision-making and building great user experiences.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy: Collaborate with Product leadership to develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for the Open API / Developer program that aligns with the company's goals and market trends, informed by data-driven insights, customer discovery and feedback.

OKR Management: Define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that are data-driven and measurable to assess the success of your product initiatives against the product strategy.

Roadmap Development: Create, maintain and socialize a product roadmap that outlines feature prioritization, experiments being conducted, release schedules, technical requirements, and dependencies.

Product Led Growth (PLG): Implement and champion Product Led Growth strategies, fostering a user-centric approach that empowers users to discover, adopt, and derive value from the developer portal and APIs contained, independently / without the need for outside assistance.

Experimentation & Data-driven Decision-Making: Design and execute experiments, defining expected outcomes and success metrics to test hypotheses and validate assumptions. Analyse results and use insights to refine product strategies, iterate on features, enhance user experiences, increase adoption and drive continuous improvement.

User Experience: Utilize data-driven user feedback and analytics to ensure an exceptional user experience, optimizing features and functionality based on user behavior.

Prioritization & Backlog Management: Define detailed feature specifications, including epics and user stories, technical requirements, A/B test and acceptance criteria, that can be understood and executed by cross-functional team, in the required order or priority.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead and work closely with a cross-functional team through active participation in stand-ups and other Agile ceremonies, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment required to deliver successful product outcomes.

Relationship Building & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with stakeholders, communicate effectively, and create buy-in for product initiatives by ensuring alignment with their goals and needs.

Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with internal teams, executives, and other stakeholders to formulate clear hypotheses for product enhancements, new features, or optimizations. Share concepts, roadmaps and progress updates using data to drive transparency and understanding.

Security & Compliance: Maintain a security-first mindset in the product development process, ensuring robust safeguards, data protection, and compliance with legislation and standards.

Market Analysis: Perform research to stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitors, using these insights to keep our products competitive and at the forefront of innovation.

Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience as a Product Manager
  
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (MBA or advanced degree is a plus)
  
• Solid experience and knowledge of RESTful APIs / microservices, JSON and related tools (Swagger, Postman etc.)
  
• Proven hands-on involvement in an API program / API development.
  
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise products in complex domains such as financial services, healthcare, and education.
  
• Strong strategic thinking abilities and a demonstrated capacity to convert strategy into actionable plans.
  
• Strong data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to analyze and interpret data to extract meaningful insights.
  
• Proven success in delivering products to market, from concept to launch, with a keen focus on customer needs and market trends.
  
• Research, plan, build, measure, learn approach to product development.
  
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to align product strategies with overall business goals and financial objectives.
  
• Technical aptitude and attention to detail, but also capable of seeing the bigger picture.
  
• A customer-centric mindset, with the ability to represent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle.
  
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues or challenges.
  
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to evangelize, influence, engage, and collaborate effectively across various teams and levels of the organization, as well as customers and partners.
  
• Experience conducting customer discovery, gathering feedback, and applying learnings to the product.
  
• A demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
  
• Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams in remote / hybrid environments.
  
• Experience with software such as Looker, Pendo, and other productivity / collaboration tools such as ProductBoard, JIRA, Slack, Figma, Mural, Office 365 etc.
  
• Self-starter and quick learner
  
• A passion for speed, quality, and evidence-based learning and decision-making
  

Nice to Have:

• Experiencing building and growing a developer community
  
• Familiarity working with external vendors and partner relationships.
  

Salary range $110k - $150k

As a global organization, Datasite knows that diverse perspectives are essential to our success. We're committed to maintaining a diverse workforce to serve our customers around the world. Datasite is an equal opportunity employer (EEO) and furthers the principles of EEO through Affirmative Action.

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