Product Manager, API

About the role:

As a Product Manager on the Platform team, you will partner with engineers and researchers to build an excellent, user-friendly, and scalable API for developers. You will play a critical role in identifying and executing on opportunities to innovate, differentiate, and scale our API, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards. The ideal candidate for this role will be passionate about crafting safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies. You should have a proven track record of working with developer users, understanding their needs, and building products they love.

Responsibilities:

• Conceive and execute on a product vision and strategy for our developer API

• Conduct user research by engaging directly with developers through interviews, surveys, forum participation, and more to understand their pain points and requirements

• Synthesize user insights into actionable product requirements, user stories, and product specifications

• Design intuitive and developer-friendly API interfaces, SDKs, and documentation experiences

• Analyze API usage data and feedback to measure product success and uncover new opportunities

• Represent the developer perspective and advocate for their needs across the organization

• Communicate product roadmap, releases, and value propositions to developer users

• Stay up-to-date on API and developer tools trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager working on developer-focused products

• Strong technical aptitude to understand API architecture and to partner with engineers- software engineering experience is a plus

• Proficiency in SQL and experience analyzing, interpreting, and leveraging data to make strategic, business decisions. You enjoy empirical, data-driven approaches to deployment

• Successfully launched zero-to-one products that have found distribution or commercial success. You have experience gathering feedback, input and data from users and running beta tests

• The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions

• Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.