Director of Platform & API Strategy

Halodi Robotics; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Generous paid time off, holidays, and

401(k) with company match

FSA and HSA options

Commuter benefits

Disability and life insurance

EAP for mental health

Onsite snacks and catered lunches

Job summary

1X in San Carlos, CA seeks a seasoned product leader to own the 1X developer platform experience end to end, guiding APIs and services as we scale. You’ll balance customer needs with engineering constraints, retire technical debt, and build an ecosystem that enables customers to customize and extend robot capabilities.

You will mentor product managers, shape a clear roadmap, and collaborate with partnerships to anticipate long-term needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, including time owning a platform product end to end.
• Proven track record of building developer or infrastructure platforms used by external customers, not internal-only tools.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop product managers, as a Group Product Manager, Director, or product lead running a pod.
• Experience improving APIs while customers actively depend on the product.
• Demonstrated ability to set and defend a prioritized roadmap grounded in customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own platform product strategy and deliver a clear, prioritized roadmap that answers why a thing matters, not just what ships next
• Drive measurable gains in customer confidence and platform adoption, so customers succeed on the platform rather than working around it
• Work closely with our partnerships team to understand customers, both commercial and consumer, and anticipate customer needs in long-term roadmaps
• Lead API improvement while customers actively depend on the product, designing platform APIs that stay reliable for the long term without versioning or breaking customer software
• Simplify the platform experience by making complex technology feel obvious, reducing friction, and creating secure, intuitive paths through the product
• Build and develop the product management team, mentoring product managers and raising the standard for product documentation and written communication
• Drive focus across competing priorities, resolving tradeoffs inside the team rather than escalating them to the executive team

Skills

Product management

Platform products

APIs design

Team leadership

Roadmap planning

Customer focus

Documentation

Job description

1X in San Carlos, CA seeks a seasoned product leader to own the 1X developer platform experience end to end, guiding APIs and services as we scale. You’ll balance customer needs with engineering constraints, retire technical debt, and build an ecosystem that enables customers to customize and extend robot capabilities.

You will mentor product managers, shape a clear roadmap, and collaborate with partnerships to anticipate long-term needs.