Senior Product Manager - Public APIs

Qonto; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Qonto is seeking a product leader to own the Public API strategy and governance. You will partner with PMs and engineering managers across the Connect team to define the roadmap for APIs powering MCP and Qonto Embed, and ensure consistent, self-serve endpoints.

You will translate business needs into technical requirements, advocate for API-first design, and align multiple teams to deliver value for our customers across Europe.

Qualifications

• Solid product management experience with ownership of a shared product roadmap.
• Experience or strong interest in API documentation, developer-facing products, or platform work.
• Ability to influence multiple teams without direct authority and align stakeholders.
• Comfort with API concepts, integration, and working closely with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Strategic ownership: Define the Public API strategy and roadmap for a product powering integrations, MCP and Qonto Embed.
• Meaningful, high‑stakes impact: Make the API a reliable foundation for connectivity and growth.
• Platform thinking: Define a shared framework for consistent endpoint exposure and self‑serve access.
• Cross‑functional leadership: Partner with PMs and engineering managers to align priorities and roadmaps.

Skills

Product management

API exposure

Stakeholder management

Technical sensitivity

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here).

Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started.

Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination‑free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit.

AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it.

Mission

Shape how Qonto connects to the rest of its customers' world by building the Public API strategy: a reliable, consistent API that powers integrations, partners, MCP and Qonto Embed, and turns connectivity into a growth engine for our all-in-one and upmarket ambitions. You will report to Fanny, who leads Qonto Connect, and you will own the product and governance framework that every Qonto team builds on.

Responsibilities

• Strategic ownership: Define the Public API strategy and roadmap for a product that already powers our integrations, MCP and Qonto Embed, and decide where to take it next.
• Meaningful, high‑stakes impact: Make the API a reliable foundation for connectivity, helping Connect grow for our active customers.
• Platform thinking: Define a shared framework so that every Qonto team can build and expose its endpoints consistently, and partners can self‑serve.
• Cross‑functional leadership: Partner with PMs and engineering managers across Qonto to align on priorities and get API needs onto their roadmaps.

What you can expect

• Market context: The Public API is no longer just integrations. It now also powers MCP and Qonto Embed, so complexity grows fast and we need one person fully focused on its strategy.
• Team: You join the Connect team of 3 PMs (marketplace and bank aggregation, integrations, Public API), working with an engineering team that mixes backend and low‑code engineers.
• The first question on your desk: what works well and what needs improvement in the Public API, how does each consumer of the API fit in, and what is our next bet in terms of use case tu enable and push via API.
• Tools: You work with the public API documentation (open to partners without a Qonto account), the developer portal, and AI tools. Being comfortable opening the docs or the code is part of the job.
• Rituals: a daily product and tech sync by scope, a Monday product weekly with peers, a Friday debrief to share wins and struggles, and a monthly Connect showcase of results and new features.

About you

• Experience: You have solid product management experience and are comfortable owning a product that every other team contributes to, with a roadmap you have to build and defend yourself.
• API and technical sensitivity (a plus): You have worked on an API, integration, platform or developer‑facing product, or you learn technical topics fast. You're comfortable getting hands‑on with API documentation and working closely with engineers.
• Stakeholder management and influence: You have aligned several teams around a shared product without hierarchical authority. You communicate clearly with PMs, engineers and senior stakeholders, and you consider the impact of your plan on every team before pushing it.
• Nice to have: Fintech, payments or partner‑integration background, and curiosity for AI tools and vibe coding (we learn it together at Qonto).