Platform Strategy Lead — Core Services & APIs

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave is seeking a Group Product Manager, Core Services, to define and scale a shared services layer that powers product innovation across the organization. You will own the strategy for orchestration workflows, APIs, and reusable platform services, leading a team of product managers and aligning with engineering, data, and design to drive adoption and long-term platform health.

The role requires strong technical fluency, business judgment, and the ability to translate complex concepts into

Qualifications

• Experience owning platform, infrastructure, API, developer tooling, or data platform products.
• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud concepts.
• Proven ability to define strategy and prioritize investments across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the product vision, strategy, roadmap, OKRs, and success metrics for Core Services.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, and Data to shape direction and prioritize investments across scalability, reliability, data foundations, and operational efficiency.
• Own the Core Services orchestration layer across system, services, and data flows, identifying reusable services, APIs, workflows, and data capabilities.
• Drive adoption and impact of shared services across the organization, including onboarding, enablement, and documentation.
• Define and monitor platform health and success metrics, including adoption, usage, reliability, and performance.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers and align with stakeholders.

Skills

Platform product management

APIs & workflow capabilities

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/CS/Engineering/Info Systems

Job description

Wave is seeking a Group Product Manager, Core Services, to define and scale a shared services layer that powers product innovation across the organization. You will own the strategy for orchestration workflows, APIs, and reusable platform services, leading a team of product managers and aligning with engineering, data, and design to drive adoption and long-term platform health.

The role requires strong technical fluency, business judgment, and the ability to translate complex concepts into