Platform API PM — Remote, Developer Experience

Astra Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Remote-first culture

Small team, big impact

Professional growth in compliance and

Mission-driven infrastructure

Job summary

Astra Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to drive the evolution of Astra's platform layer—the APIs, developer experience, control plane, and foundational infrastructure products that sit above the rails.

This IC role collaborates with leadership, engineering, solutions, and GTM to shape architecture, define platform specs, and ship reliable, scalable money-movement capabilities for customers. You’ll work with the Leadership Team and other Product Team members, partnering deeply with engineering,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company.
• Deep expertise in API design – REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture.
• Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features.
• Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation.
• Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles.
• Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build.
• Shape the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments against customer-facing features and reliability work.
• Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs.
• Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality.
• Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements.
• Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature.
• Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes.

Skills

API design

Platform roadmap

Developer experience

Job description

Astra Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to drive the evolution of Astra's platform layer—the APIs, developer experience, control plane, and foundational infrastructure products that sit above the rails.

This IC role collaborates with leadership, engineering, solutions, and GTM to shape architecture, define platform specs, and ship reliable, scalable money-movement capabilities for customers. You’ll work with the Leadership Team and other Product Team members, partnering deeply with engineering,