Senior Product Manager - API & Developer Experience

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Senior Lead Product Manager to scale Paze by simplifying merchant/partner integrations, helping them go live faster. Experience with APIs, Web/Mobile/Server SDKs and developer experience in fintech is preferred.

The role requires building and guiding cross-functional teams, aligning on customer pain points, and driving product strategy and revenue growth across multiple products. Hybrid work model and US-based eligibility are noted.

Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelors degree.
• Typically, 12 or more years of related work experience OR post-secondary degree and at least 8 years of related work experience
• Demonstrated experience in design thinking and agile development process and methodology
• Demonstrated leadership experience and cross functional collaboration experience
• Proven experience in and passion for building and delivering great products
• Demonstrated experience in setting a product strategy, roadmap and in meeting product revenue targets
• Excellent listening and execution skills
• Background and drug screen

Responsibilities

• Visionary and Strategist: Builds the right cross-functional team to obtain a common understanding of customer pain points, empathy and excitement for solving customer issues and driving product revenue.
• Customer Passion and Advocacy: Brings the customer viewpoint to the product design process with a demonstrated competency to actively listen to customer feedback across all touchpoints and channels; to routinely leverage this feedback into insights; and to build products and services that delight and inspire.
• Creative Problem Solver: Works closely with marketing, research, analytics, design and development partners, uses technical savvy and customer insights to develop real world solutions working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Commitment to Risk Management: Oversees the integration of strong risk and security controls. Ensures compliance to laws and regulations.
• Technical Understanding: Able and adept at working directly with the technologists to deliver market solutions. Clearly defines requirements, grooms user stories, motivates technical teams and partners with technology closely
• For API Roles: API Expertise: Collaborates with Engineering / Architecture / Integration Support teams to ensure delivery of developer-friendly APIs that are fit for purpose. Brings a strong point of view to good API design and develops detailed product specifications and use stories to help build APIs. Acts as the primary point of contact for API-related inquiries and support for internal and external stakeholders. Stays up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to inform product development and strategy. Facilitates training and adoption of users and developers to ensure successful API adoption.

Skills

Design thinking

Agile development

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Product strategy

Roadmap

Revenue targets

Listening & execution

API expertise

OpenAPI specs

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

OpenAPI specs

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Senior Lead Product Manager to scale Paze by simplifying merchant/partner integrations, helping them go live faster. Experience with APIs, Web/Mobile/Server SDKs and developer experience in fintech is preferred.

The role requires building and guiding cross-functional teams, aligning on customer pain points, and driving product strategy and revenue growth across multiple products. Hybrid work model and US-based eligibility are noted.