Product Manager, API & Maps

Vaisala Inc.; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision

401K match

Tuition Reimbursement

PTO

Holiday pay

Job summary

Vaisala Inc. is seeking a Technical Product Manager for API & Maps to own the product strategy and roadmap for Weather API, maps, SDKs, and developer experience.

Collaborate with customers, engineering, and commercial teams to prioritize opportunities, drive adoption, and revenue growth with AI-enabled development. You will shape the AI strategy for access, integration, and monetization, while guiding pricing, packaging, and lifecycle decisions across the installed base.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years as product manager for technical products.
• API fluency with REST/HTTP/JSON and authentication.
• Ability to analyze usage and revenue data using SQL.
• Understanding of product-led growth and pricing strategies.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and APIs.
• Strong customer discovery, technical communication, and written requirements.
• Available to collaborate with US-based teams during core US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and the roadmap using research, market insight, and business priorities.
• Lead customer discovery; discuss capabilities with developers and stakeholders.
• Shape AI strategy for API and Maps; prioritize opportunities by value and feasibility.
• Drive growth by analyzing usage and revenue data; partner to improve activation, conversion, retention, and expansion.
• Shape pricing and packaging with commercial teams; support sustainable growth.
• Turn priorities into delivery; define problems, requirements, and success metrics with engineering.
• Improve the developer experience through onboarding, docs, and examples.
• Manage product lifecycle: launches, API versioning, deprecations, migration plans.

Skills

3+ years PM

API fluency

REST

HTTP

JSON

Authentication

Rate limits

SQL

Data analysis

Product-led growth

Pricing strategy

AI in products

Customer discovery

Technical writing

Requirements

US collaboration

Technical ownership

Job description

Vaisala is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most - from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. For a second year running, Vaisala got recognized in TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2026 study. Our team of close to 2,500 experts and 62 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

Our employees demonstrate, uphold, support, and model the Vaisala Values: Customer Focus, Innovation & Renewal, Strong Together and Integrity. Sharing strong and common values is part of our culture and enables us to work towards our shared mission.

Vaisala Xweather helps organizations integrate weather intelligence into their applications and operations. By combining local sensor data with advanced AI predictions, we deliver precise and actionable weather insights. We transform weather challenges into opportunities and build resilience against severe weather and climate change.

As Technical Product Manager for API & Maps, you'll own the product strategy and roadmap for our Weather API and mapping products, including SDKs and the developer experience. You'll work with customers, engineering, and commercial teams to identify opportunities, set priorities, and drive adoption and revenue growth. AI is a key strategic focus: you'll shape how our services are discovered, integrated, and consumed through AI-assisted development, AI applications, and agent workflows.

This is a hybrid-based position out of our Minneapolis, Minnesota office.

What you'll do:

• Own strategy and the roadmap. Use customer research, market insight, and business priorities to define product direction, differentiation, and investment decisions.
• Lead customer discovery. Understand customer workflows and business needs. Confidently discuss capabilities, limitations, and integration approaches with developers and technical stakeholders.
• Shape the AI strategy for API and Maps. Identify how AI changes customer needs and service consumption. Prioritize opportunities based on customer value, feasibility, reliability, and economics.
• Drive growth through data. Independently analyze usage and revenue data. Partner with marketing and engineering to improve activation, paid conversion, retention, and expansion.
• Shape pricing and packaging. Work with commercial teams on positioning, usage-based pricing, and monetization opportunities that support sustainable growth.
• Turn priorities into delivery. Define problems, requirements, and success measures. Partner with engineering on scope and tradeoffs across new capabilities, performance, reliability, and compatibility.
• Improve the developer experience. Prioritize onboarding, documentation, examples, and integration improvements that help customers move from evaluation to production.
• Manage the product lifecycle. Lead launches, API version transitions, deprecations, and sunset decisions, including customer communication and migration plans for the installed base. Evaluate outcomes and adjust priorities based on evidence.

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years as a product manager for technical products, where you owned the roadmap and were accountable for its business results.
• Practical API fluency, including REST, HTTP, JSON, authentication, errors, and rate limits. Ability to test requests, inspect responses, and understand integration workflows and code examples.
• Ability to independently query and analyze usage and revenue data using SQL or comparable tools, and turn findings into decisions.
• Understanding of product-led growth, including free tiers, trial-to-paid conversion, usage-based pricing, retention, and expansion.
• Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development and AI applications that consume APIs or data services, and the ability to translate those changes into product priorities.
• Strong customer discovery, technical communication, and written requirements skills, with sound judgment, organization, and follow-through.
• Availability to collaborate with US-based engineering teams and customers during core US business hours.
• Relevant experience may come from product management or another technical role with substantial product ownership.

Nice to haves:

• Experience launching AI-powered products or capabilities, including evaluating quality, cost, adoption, and monetization.
• Mapping or geospatial experience, including layers, tiles, coordinates, raster or vector data, or libraries such as Mapbox, MapLibre, Google Maps, or Leaflet.
• Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or technical B2B products, including successful growth experiments or pricing and packaging changes.
• Ability to adapt JavaScript or Python examples, or experience developing web or mobile applications.
• Familiarity with weather or environmental data and applications that depend on timely, reliable information.

What success looks like:

• A clear strategy and focused roadmap, trusted customer relationships, and measurable improvements in integration success, adoption, paid conversion, retention, and revenue growth.
• AI investments address demonstrated customer needs and produce meaningful product and business value.

ANTICIPATED SALARY RANGE: $110,000 - $125,000 base salary with our annual Xweather STI bonus plan (on top of base compensation). Salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, we offer our employees a competitive benefits package which is outlined below. Please note that applications sent via email cannot be processed due to privacy reasons.

What we offer:

Our benefits package includes: health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, company paid life, long and short term disability, 401(K) plan with company match, a variety of voluntary benefits programs, Employee Assistance Programs, and tuition reimbursement. We also offer holiday pay and a generous paid time off plan.

To be considered for this position you must currently be eligible to work in the U.S. Vaisala participates in the E-Verify employment verification system. Candidates are subject to a complete background check prior to an offer being extended.

EOE Veteran/Disability

Vaisala is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons in all facets of employment. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected status.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. As a government contractor, Vaisala complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Act), which is a law that prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment against individuals with disabilities and requires employers take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote, and retain these individuals.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please contact Human Resources by phone at 303-499-1701 or by email at [e-mail]. Please note that you can easily submit application by attaching your LinkedIn profile in the recruitment tool (LinkedIn Apply functionality).