Senior Product Manager, API Platform & Client Connectivity

HSBC Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Product Manager for Client Connectivity to shape secure, interoperable APIs across REST and event‑driven architectures. You will balance client experience, regulatory expectations and commercial outcomes to enable faster, safer integrations across channels and markets.

You will lead cross‑functional delivery, drive API platform standards, and collaborate with Product, Channel, IT and business leaders to provide a simple, consistent client

Qualifications

• Proven product management experience delivering digital products, platforms or shared technology capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of API ecosystems, REST, event‑driven architectures, developer experience and platform‑based operating models.
• A track record of leading cross‑functional delivery across regions, disciplines and organisational boundaries.
• The ability to translate complex technology, regulatory and operational considerations into clear, client‑centric product outcomes.
• Knowledge of global payments and / or global trade finance solutions, with the ability to translate product requirements into secure, scalable and client‑focused API and connectivity solutions.
• Excellent communication, analytical and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage audiences from engineers and architects to senior business leaders.
• Strong leadership, organisation, decision‑making, lateral‑thinking and interpersonal skills.
• A collaborative, client‑centric mindset and a commitment to delivering simple, consistent experiences.
• The ability to influence without formal authority, manage competing priorities and drive alignment across multiple teams and markets.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing customer value, technical feasibility, risk, control requirements and commercial impact.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive key capabilities within the API Platform roadmap, covering design guidelines, versioning, error handling, security patterns, event‑driven capabilities, documentation, billing, servicing and testing standards.
• Use customer, engineering and operational insight to prioritise investment, resolve trade-offs and deliver measurable improvements.
• Champion developer experience by improving API discoverability, documentation, testing, onboarding and ongoing servicing.
• Ensure API delivery aligns with the target architecture and the wider Client Connectivity strategy and support consistent adoption of standards and a high‑quality customer implementation experience.
• Contribute to roadmap planning for API enablement and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Channel, Lines of Business and IT teams to deliver customer‑centric solutions across the Client Connectivity channel and underlying product domains.
• Drive consistent delivery across external and internal IT‑led APIs, supporting a seamless end‑to‑end experience that is reliable, secure, scalable and easy to use.
• Build alignment across teams, regions and disciplines, ensuring decisions are clear, well governed and translated into practical delivery outcomes.
• Lead efforts to shape secure, interoperable and well‑governed APIs across REST and event‑driven architectures, balancing client experience with engineering practicality.

Skills

Product management

API ecosystems

REST

Event-driven architectures

Developer experience

Platform operating models

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Analytical skills

Leadership

Client-centric mindset

Influence without authority

Global payments knowledge

Global trade finance knowledge

Job description

HSBC Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Product Manager for Client Connectivity to shape secure, interoperable APIs across REST and event‑driven architectures. You will balance client experience, regulatory expectations and commercial outcomes to enable faster, safer integrations across channels and markets.

You will lead cross‑functional delivery, drive API platform standards, and collaborate with Product, Channel, IT and business leaders to provide a simple, consistent client