Senior Technical Product Manager - API

• Co-own defining the technical product vision and roadmap for key developer-focused initiatives.
• Align product planning with business goals, customer needs, and emerging trends-particularly in AI-driven API workflows and open-source API tools.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure scalable, high-quality implementation of roadmap items.

• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, and Documentation to define executable, technically sound product strategies.
• Drive clear alignment on open-source tooling updates and enhancements, prioritizing community needs alongside strategic initiatives.

• Represent the voice of the customer by engaging directly with developers, enterprise customers, and prospects through sales calls, support conversations, events, and community forums.
• Synthesize input into actionable insights and backlog priorities, balance near-term customer needs with long-term innovation.

• Deep understanding of the API Industry with strong knowledge around API Protocols (GraphQL, OpenAPI, Async, gRPC, etc.)
• Experience across the API SDLC specifically, exposure to the Design & Test stages
• Translate market and customer requirements into clear, technically grounded product specs and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to engineering by anticipating complexity and scoping feasibility early.

• Contribute to the development of AI-native product features by understanding concepts like agentic AI, machine learning architectures, and standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Identify and articulate how these evolving technologies reshape the API landscape, developer experience, and platform capabilities.

• 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in developer tools, APIs, infrastructure, or SaaS.
• Technical background-whether via CS degree, software engineering experience, or equivalent depth of expertise.
• Proven ability to deliver successful products in close collaboration with engineers, UX, and go-to-market teams.
• Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and community-based development models.

• Experience participating in or managing open-source projects and communities.
• Affiliation to OpenAPI Initiative
• Exposure to AI/ML technologies, with an understanding of their implications in software development workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to adapt messaging across technical and non-technical audiences.

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically - the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We've won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

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