Lead Product Manager, APIs and MCP

Asana; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 211,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health, wellness & fitness bene

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In‑office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking a Lead Product Manager to own the APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server strategy from Vancouver. You will connect developer and customer needs to Asana’s broader product vision, guiding a platform that’s secure, reliable, and scalable.

You’ll lead discovery to launch across multiple teams, mentor other PMs, and collaborate with security and enterprise teams to ensure trusted agent access. This is a hybrid in-office role with a Vancouver base.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping technical platform or developer-facing products, incl. APIs and MCP servers.
• Ability to connect API and infrastructure decisions to customer problems and business outcomes.
• Technical fluency and systems thinking; can translate protocols into end-to-end flows.
• Strong product judgment and ability to plan a focused, sequenced roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Asana’s APIs and MCP server.
• Enable external developers and agents to complete valuable workflows in Asana.
• Expand Work Graph access and improve documentation, authorization, and usage.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve platform reliability and performance.
• Use feedback and success metrics to identify failures and prioritize improvements.
• Lead end-to-end delivery across multiple teams and ensure alignment.
• Mentor and develop other product managers.

Skills

APIs & MCP platform

Platform leadership

Developer experience

API contracts & versioning

SDKs & docs owners

Mentoring PMs

B2B SaaS

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Job description

The Product Management team drives Asana’s product strategy and execution, translating customer needs into products that help teams work together and see the larger purpose behind their work. As AI agents become part of how work gets done, we’re building new ways for people, developers, and agents to collaborate through Asana’s Work Graph.

We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to lead product strategy for Asana’s APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. You’ll help external developers and AI agents understand and act on the work teams manage in Asana—from tasks and projects to the goals, ownership, and dependencies that connect them. You’ll shape a platform that makes these workflows useful, reliable, and secure, balancing developer experience with the controls enterprise customers need. You’re a technical product leader who can reason deeply about systems, turn emerging customer needs into a focused roadmap, and bring engineering, design, research, and go-to-market partners together to deliver meaningful outcomes.

This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner.

What You’ll Achieve

• Own the product vision and prioritized roadmap for Asana’s APIs and MCP server, connecting developer and customer needs to Asana’s broader product strategy.
• Enable external developers and agents to complete valuable workflows in Asana, and improve the journey from discovering Asana's APIs and MCP tools to completing a first successful workflow.
• Expand access to Work Graph capabilities in partnership with the teams that own them.
• Reduce friction in documentation, authorization, and everyday use.
• Partner closely with engineering to improve platform reliability, performance, and compatibility as API and MCP capabilities evolve.
• Use customer feedback, evaluations, and success measures (adoption, workflow completion, reliability, and time to value) to identify where workflows fail and prioritize improvements.
• Work with security and enterprise product teams to make agent access trustworthy. Define clear permissions, administrative controls, and accountability for actions taken by agents.
• Lead initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration across multiple teams. Measure success through adoption, workflow completion, reliability, and time to value.

About You

• 6-8 years of product management experience, with a track record of launching and growing products in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or developer platforms.
• Experience shaping technical platform or developer-facing products, including APIs and MCP servers, and connecting API and infrastructure decisions to real customer problems and business outcomes.
• Technical fluency and systems thinking. You can reason about APIs, authentication, permissions, dependencies, and failure modes, and translate technical protocols into clear end-to-end user flows. You have experience designing API contracts, managing versioning and backward compatibility, and owning SDKs and developer documentation.
• Strong product judgment. You can navigate ambiguity, identify the core problem, and turn a broad opportunity into a focused, sequenced roadmap.
• A customer-centered, analytical approach. You seek out developer and user feedback, define meaningful success measures, and use evidence to guide prioritization and iteration.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end product delivery and align multiple teams around difficult decisions. You communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical partners and keep execution moving across dependencies.
• Experience mentoring and developing other product managers.
• Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission.

What We’ll Offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $211,000-$240,000 CAD. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits.

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In‑office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations.

About Us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by law.