Product Owner API Platform

As Product Owner for the API Platform, you assume end-to-end responsibility for this channel which is used by some of our key clients to establish an efficient connection from their systems to our products. Via the API Platform, our clients can trade, stake, view transactions, and balances. As a leader in the fast-paced crypto space, we need to react quickly to changing market demands. Therefore, we believe in agile project management methodologies and the empowerment of teams. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in a scale-up environment with a dedicated development team and take ownership of various roles to drive external client adoption of the API Platform as well as internal streamlining of data sourcing for our other digital channel systems.

You will have the following responsibilities

• Drive vision and strategy for our public API Platform serving our primarily corporate target audience. For more information, visit here.
• Actively drive and support onboarding of clients on our public API platform ensuring their satisfaction.
• Develop and manage the product development backlog for the in-house API systems team.
• Ensure maintenance and drive further development for our GraphQL layer which feeds various end user interfaces with data and collaborate with frontend teams to optimize backend-for-frontend architectures.
• Manage and deliver to the expectations of key stakeholders in your product environment (clients, relationship managers, compliance, marketing, and peripheral systems).
• Ensure maintenance of internal services that are peripheral to the GraphQL layer or client API Platform.
• Support clients and client relationship managers in production-related issues as a second-level support function for the API platform, GraphQL layer, and other services within your responsibility.
• Manage the defining and delivery of development Epics which require support from multiple teams.

What you bring along

• Experience in requirements engineering (creation of mockups, writing of documentation, specifying product backlog items, and business process documentation via flow charts).
• Exposure to agile product management frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and design thinking).
• Experience in working with development teams and other technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with REST API design principles and API integration or documentation tools such as Postman or Swagger.
• You are a great communicator: you can get your thoughts across precisely and are tuned in to the respective stakeholders that you are communicating with. You are also an attentive listener.
• At minimum 2 years of experience as a product manager, product owner, or business analyst with exposure to client-facing products.
• Ideally, you have experience working with a microservice-based systems landscape.
• Preferably experience in the financial industry, managing API interface products for internal or client stakeholders.
• Previous technical experience as a software developer or basic software development skills is a plus but not required.

What we offer

• Expertise: Work with crypto native experts.
• Culture: Positive and supportive team culture that relies on common goals, ambitions, and values.
• Activities: Regular team events and activities.
• Ownership: High level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Crypto Salary: Option to get a part of your salary in Bitcoin and/or Ether.
• Fitness: Sport over lunch activities.
• Location: Office location in crypto valley right next to the train station of Zug.

Please note that for this position, only direct applications with a valid working permit for Switzerland will be considered.