Platform API & Data Product Lead (Hybrid)

ADP; Pleasant Grove (UT); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

HSA with company match

401K with company match

PTO

Job summary

KLAS Research is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Platform to own strategy and execution for APIs, data products, and shared capabilities connecting KLAS research to customer workflows and digital experiences. You will partner with customers, Client Engagement, Engineering, Research, and internal product teams to identify needs, translate them into requirements, and deliver measurable outcomes.

The role requires 5+ years in product management for B2B SaaS/API products; a master’s degree is

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of a B2B SaaS, API, data, or platform product.
• Experience guiding a product through discovery, delivery, launch, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong customer discovery skills and the ability to use evidence to identify underlying needs and challenge proposed solutions.
• Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, and data products, including data models, access controls, reliability, versioning, and compatibility.
• Sound prioritization judgment and the ability to define a valuable first release while clearly explaining tradeoffs.
• Experience translating customer and business needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success metrics.
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Comfort using AI-enabled tools, product analytics, SQL, API testing tools, or similar methods to investigate problems and validate assumptions.
• Degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience; master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for KLAS APIs, data products, and shared platform capabilities.
• Partner with customers and internal teams to identify needs, remove adoption barriers, and prioritize high-value opportunities.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success metrics.
• Lead customer discovery through interviews, usage data, and pilots to validate solutions before larger investments.
• Partner with Engineering to improve data quality, reliability, access, metadata, API compatibility, and integration experiences.
• Serve as Product Owner for an Agile team, maintaining a prioritized backlog and delivering focused, incremental releases.
• Measure product adoption, integration success, usage, data quality, and customer value; use results to improve or adjust investments.
• Communicate roadmap priorities, tradeoffs, progress, and outcomes to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Skills

Product management

APIs

Data products

Platform product

Discovery & delivery

Cross-functional leadership

SQL

AI-enabled tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

API testing tools

Data models

Job description

KLAS Research is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Platform to own strategy and execution for APIs, data products, and shared capabilities connecting KLAS research to customer workflows and digital experiences. You will partner with customers, Client Engagement, Engineering, Research, and internal product teams to identify needs, translate them into requirements, and deliver measurable outcomes.

The role requires 5+ years in product management for B2B SaaS/API products; a master’s degree is