Sr. Staff Product Manager - Developer Experience

Apollo GraphQL; United States; Remote; USD 199,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the API orchestration space is looking for an experienced Product Manager to oversee GraphOS, their industry-leading platform. In this role, you will shape product vision, collaborate with stakeholders, and enhance developer tools with a focus on user experience and innovation. If you are passionate about GraphQL and want to contribute to cutting-edge technology, this opportunity could be perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity opportunities

Comprehensive medical plans

Dental and Vision coverage

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management within the developer tooling space.
• Deep experience with APIs and algorithms.
• Understands customer perspectives to develop product vision.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Apollo’s vision for the GraphOS developer ecosystem.
• Build and evangelize a roadmap for product development.
• Own and evolve user experience across product interfaces.

Skills

Product development lifecycle

Technical product management

APIs

Algorithms

Technical tradeoffs

Entrepreneurial drive

Leadership skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Are you an experienced product manager excited to work with developer tools that help the biggest companies around the world connect and orchestrate their APIs with GraphQL? As a Product Manager at Apollo , you’ll lead product vision for the core capabilities that enable Enterprises to adopt and scale Apollo’s industry-leading API composition platform, GraphOS, across their organizations.

You will be working with engineering organizations on the suite of tools that enable them to build, manage, and operate a supergraph of any size or scale, with minimal friction and maximum developer delight. You’d also be responsible for our entire suite of developer tools, including GraphOS Studio (our SaaS application for developing and managing GraphOS environments, Rover (our command-line interface for performing and automating GraphOS operational tasks, our extensions for third-party IDEs like VSCode and IntelliJ), and our local development tools like GraphOS Sandbox.

So join us and help shape the future of GraphOS!

What You'll Do

• Define and drive Apollo’s vision and strategy for the GraphOS developer ecosystem.
• Build and evangelize a roadmap for these products across internal and external stakeholders. Develop and validate new GraphOS capabilities directly with industry-leading customers, such as Netflix, Paypal, Wayfair, Peloton, The New York Times, and many others.
• Own and evolve Apollo’s user experience across various product surfaces and touchpoints, from administrative tools to API interfaces and command-line tools to third-party integrations.
• You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling and are interested in helping push the industry forward.

What You Bring

• You have successfully led product development lifecycles and technical product management, ideally with developer platforms and infrastructure or similar B2B products.
• You have deep experience with APIs and algorithms.
• You understand how to work back from the customer’s perspective to identify value and develop a clear product vision.
• You are adept at reasoning technical tradeoffs in relation to the product vision you’ve built.
• You like learning and proactively keeping up with new developer trends by reading books, watching videos, taking classes, or doing something similar.
• You possess a strong entrepreneurial drive and leadership skills.
• You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling and are interested in helping push the industry forward.

Nice to Have

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of experience in Product Management within the developer tooling space
• Direct experience with GraphQL, API middleware, or scaled API platforms.

$199,750 - $252,625 a year

At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process. We are open to hiring these positions at a Staff Product Manager to Sr. Staff level, based on fit. The accompanied salary range covers these levels.

In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.

Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.

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E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.