Product Manager - API Integrations & Governance

Visa; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology company is seeking a Product Manager for API Integrations to lead the strategy and execution of Visa Direct APIs. The role involves driving API governance and creating seamless integration experiences for clients. Ideal candidates should have product management experience focused on developer platforms, and a strong understanding of money movement systems. This hybrid position requires a blend of technical acumen and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management focusing on developer platforms.
• Deep understanding of payment messaging and workflows.
• Experience in analyzing developer usage patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and execution of Visa Direct APIs.
• Drive API standards and governance for seamless integrations.
• Define and track key metrics to measure integration success.

Skills

Product management experience

Understanding of money movement systems

Building scalable APIs

Excellent technical acumen

Data-driven mindset

Strong written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field

Master's degree (Ex: Computer Science, BBA, MBA)

Job description

We're looking for a Product Manager - API Integrations & Governance to lead the strategy and execution of Visa Direct APIs. This role is part of the Visa Direct Client Experience product team within the Visa Direct global product organization. Visa Direct is Visa's money movement platform. You'll be responsible for crafting seamless, intuitive, and secure API integration experiences including API documentation, and testing environments. You will also drive API governance across all Visa Direct products and services to make it easier for clients to adopt and scale their solutions. Your mission: empower developers — from global & regional banks, FinTech's & enablers — to implement money movement solutions quicky, confidently and at scale.

• Enable API integration experience across onboarding, authentication, authorization, testing, documentation and go live for payouts to Cards, Accounts and Wallets.
• Partner with engineering, architects, design, cross functional product teams, customer success, marketing and sales to deliver API integration experiences for enterprise-grade clients with a focus on simplicity, scale, security, and observability.
• Define and track key metrics such as Time to First App, Total time to Integrate, and Developer satisfaction. Measure utilization of our APIs and capabilities and use that to adjust go forward plans.
• Enable best in class developer sandbox. Work alongside developer experience product lead to support build and growth of developer docs and tools.
• Drive API standards and governance to ensure consistency, backward compatibility, and clarity across money movement products.
• Collaborate with Solution Engineers, Implementation managers, Client care specialists and Customer Success to streamline API integration paths for clients.
• Represent the developer's voice in API roadmap prioritization, API platform architecture discussions, GTM strategy, and internal governance practice.
• This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

• Product management experience, focused on developer platforms.
• Good understanding of money movement systems, payment messaging and workflows.
• Track record of building scalable APIs, and developer tooling.
• Excellent technical acumen-you know API standards, have built a basic web app using APIs as a hobby, read about what's next to improve developer experience and tech integrations. You can debate API & platform design trade-offs with engineers, and design edge cases.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze developer usage patterns and identify friction points.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with stakeholders across product, technology, customer success, marketing and sales.
• Bachelor's degree or master's in a technical or business field (Ex: Computer Science, BBA, MBA)

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.