Director, Digital Product Management – API Gateways, Managed File Transfer, Agentic Platforms – Enterprise Architecture

Jobtailor

Phoenix (AZ)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior product leader to own the vision and multi-year roadmap for API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI in a cloud-native environment. You will guide secure interactions, drive platform modernization, and align across Engineering, Security, Risk, and Compliance to deliver scalable, compliant solutions.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of leadership in platform products, a strong track record embedding AI and automation, and a history of delivering complex products for

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
8+ years in product management or tech leadership, with complex platform ownership.
Proven ability to define multi-year strategies, roadmaps, and outcomes.
Experience delivering products serving developers, apps, and partners at scale.
Ability to partner with Engineering, Security, and Risk on cloud, reliability, automation.

Responsibilities

Set vision and multi-year roadmap for API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI.
Anticipate customer needs, security expectations, and new integration patterns.
Guide secure interactions across APIs, events, files, services, partners, and AI agents.
Define needs for agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication and governance.
Apply AI and automation to improve onboarding, operations, anomaly detection, and insights.
Modernize API and file-transfer experiences with discovery, traffic management, and self-service.
Turn strategy into priorities and investments that improve adoption, reliability, speed, scalability, cost efficiency, developer and user experience, and risk reduction.
Partner with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, and Compliance to strengthen identity, data protection, access, reliability, agent governance, and regulatory compliance.
Work across Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Operations, AI/ML, Risk, Compliance, and business teams to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate outcomes.
Communicate priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior leaders and partners.
Coach product professionals and build strong product practices

Job description

Set the vision and product strategy and own the multi-year roadmap for API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI
Anticipate customer needs, technology shifts, security expectations, and new integration patterns
Guide secure interactions across APIs, events, files, services, partners, and AI agents
Support cloud-native, event-driven, and zero-trust approaches
Define product needs for agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication, orchestration, state management, observability, guardrails, and governance
Apply AI and intelligent automation to improve onboarding, operations, self-service, anomaly detection, insights, workflows, and product decisions
Modernize API and file-transfer experiences through improved discovery, onboarding, traffic management, identity, policy enforcement, secure data movement, encryption, automation, observability, and self-service
Turn strategy into priorities and investments that improve adoption, reliability, speed, scalability, cost efficiency, developer and user experience, and risk reduction
Partner with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, and Compliance to strengthen identity, data protection, access, reliability, agent governance, and regulatory compliance
Work across Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Operations, AI/ML, Risk, Compliance, and business teams to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate outcomes
Communicate priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior leaders and partners
Coach product professionals and build strong product practices

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
8+ years of product management, technology product leadership, platform strategy, or related experience, including ownership of complex products or platforms
Proven ability to define and deliver multi-year product strategies, roadmaps, priorities, and outcomes
Experience managing technology products that serve developers, applications, business teams, and partners at scale
Sufficient proficiency to partner effectively with Engineering and Architecture on cloud, integration, security, reliability, automation, and platform modernization
Experience using customer insights, product data, and business priorities to make decisions, simplify experiences, and improve adoption
Exposure to AI, intelligent automation, or new technologies and ability to translate them into practical product opportunities
Strong collaboration, influencing, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including aligning with diverse teams and communicating with senior leaders
Experience working across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and business teams to deliver secure and resilient technology products
Experience leading, mentoring, and developing product professionals and applying Agile/Lean practices to improve delivery
Preferred: Product leadership experience with API Gateway, API management, MFT, middleware, data movement, or developer platforms at scale
Preferred: Knowledge of API management capabilities and technologies, including traffic control, authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, rate limiting, and platforms such as Apigee, Kong, or AWS API Gateway
Preferred: Knowledge of secure file-transfer capabilities, including encryption, orchestration, and protocols such as SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, S3, GCS, or AS2
Preferred: Experience with agentic AI, autonomous workflows, agent-to-agent or agent-to-system communication, orchestration, guardrails, governance, and observability
Preferred: Experience modernizing core platforms through cloud, automation, self-service, APIs, event-driven architecture, or zero-trust approaches
Preferred: Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product management and technology leadership, with a focus on API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI. Proven ability to define multi-year product strategies, enhance secure interactions, and drive adoption through collaboration across diverse teams.

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