<p>JobID: 210729856</p> <p>Category: Product Management</p> <p>JobSchedule: Full time</p> <p>Posted Date: 2026-04-03T17:20:38+00:00</p> <p>JobShift:</p> <p>Base Pay/Salary: Jersey City,NJ $99,750.00-$150,000.00</p> <p>Unleash your expertise in product development and optimization by leveraging user research, analyzing metrics, and collaborating across one of the world's most innovative financial organizations.</p> <p>As a Senior Product Associate in Internal API Platforms, you contribute to the team by leveraging your expertise in product development and optimization to make a significant impact, supported by user research and customer feedback to fuel the creation of innovative products and continuously improve existing offerings. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and ongoing success.</p> <p>Job responsibilities</p> <ul> <li>Translate internal customer needs into an actionable platform roadmap for API management, developer onboarding, and lifecycle governance. </li><li>Conduct problem discovery with engineers and product teams to identify friction, quantify impact, and prioritize high-leverage platform enhancements. </li><li>Define and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans for capabilities such as API onboarding, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and self-service tooling. </li><li>Partner with engineering to execute iterative delivery; validate outcomes via experiments, telemetry, and user feedback. </li><li>Drive standards for specification formats and artifacts (e.g., OpenAPI, schema reuse), and promote reusable patterns, SDKs, and templates. </li><li>Improve time-to-first-call with sandboxes, quickstarts, and automated guardrails (linting, contract checks). </li><li>Establish policies for API versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, and access controls; ensure alignment with firmwide risk and controls, data classification, and security policies. </li><li>Collaborate with SRE and platform engineering on SLOs, incident reduction, and capacity planning for gateways and supporting services. </li><li>Instrument platform health dashboards and publish adoption and reliability metrics to stakeholders. </li><li>Run intake and triage, maintain transparent backlogs, and communicate roadmap, release notes, and change impacts to internal customers. </li><li>Facilitate cross-team alignment across lines of business to scale platform standards and accelerate adoption. </li></ul> <p>Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills</p> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area </li><li>Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle </li><li>Experience in product life cycle activities including discovery and requirements definition </li><li>Developing knowledge of data analytics and data literacy </li><li>Working knowledge of API concepts and tooling: API design fundamentals (REST; awareness of GraphQL and gRPC), specification formats (OpenAPI), versioning strategies, and deprecation best practices. Familiarity with enterprise API gateways/management platforms, authN/Z patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS), and traffic policies (quotas, rate limiting). Familiarity with Postman, Bruno, Splunk, Grafana, Adobe Analytics tools. </li><li>Demonstrated experience running Agile ceremonies, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritizing via data and stakeholder input. </li><li>Comfort with metrics and analytics: ability to define KPIs, analyze platform telemetry, and make evidence-based prioritization decisions. </li><li>Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to influence without authority and translate technical details into business outcomes. </li><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience. </li></ul> <p>Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills</p> <ul> <li>Experience with internal developer platforms (IDP), golden paths, or platform engineering in a regulated environment. </li><li>Exposure to CI/CD, automated testing, contract testing, and API linting tools. </li><li>Practical familiarity with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) and SLO/SLI practices. </li><li>Basic ability to read API specs and evaluate developer experience (DX) for onboarding flows and docs. </li></ul>