Juniper Square is dedicated to digitizing private markets to improve efficiency and access. They are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the strategy and development of their API product suite, ensuring seamless integration with their platform and clients' technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own the API product vision, long-term strategy, and roadmap, aligning with company goals and customer integration needs
- Identify opportunities to expand our API offerings to support new financial products, data capabilities, and partnership integrations
- Implement industry best practices in API-first products to ensure we meet and exceed scale, security and compatibility standards
- Translate business and client integration requirements into detailed product requirements, user stories, and API specifications
- Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to design RESTful API endpoints, data models, versioning standards, authentication mechanisms, and integration workflows
- Prioritize API features, enhancements, and technical debt based on customer impact, business value, and engineering capacity
- Manage full lifecycle of API products including development, testing, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and migration planning
- Act as the primary product-facing technical liaison to client engineering teams, understanding integration requirements and helping them adopt our APIs successfully
- Lead discovery sessions with clients to map data flows, identify integration challenges, and propose API-based solutions
- Support technical onboarding by ensuring clear documentation, sample code, sandbox environments, SDKs, and troubleshooting guides
- Collaborate with implementation and support teams to resolve integration issues and optimize API usage
- Work closely with engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, performance, and security of API products
- Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure APIs meet regulatory requirements and follow best practices for data protection
- Collaborate with product marketing to articulate API capabilities, value propositions, and go-to-market messaging
- Coordinate with sales and client success to provide technical product insights and support pre- and post-sales discussions
- Establish and maintain API governance standards including versioning, documentation guidelines, lifecycle management, and design best practices
- Evaluate and integrate third-party technologies, APIs, and data services that enhance our product ecosystem
- Work with our engineering teams to ensure reliable API deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and uptime performance
- Drive continuous improvements to API usability, developer experience, performance, and reliability
Requirements:
- 5–8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager or similar role, with at least 3 years specifically managing API products or technical platforms
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, data modeling, authentication/authorization frameworks, and integration patterns
- Hands-on experience working with client engineering teams to enable API adoption or build integrations
- Skilled in translating complex technical concepts into clear product requirements
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps practices
- Familiarity with third-party APIs, middleware, data integration solutions, or enterprise integration patterns
- Strong technical acumen, analytical mindset, and ability to understand system architectures and data flows
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Background in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services
- Prior work with API gateways, developer portals, and API management tools (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway)
- Prior experience with IPaaS solutions such as Mulesoft, Zapier, Workato
- Prior experience working with 3rd party vendors/consultants in developing client solutions (e.g. Delloit, Alpha)
- Understanding of regulatory considerations relevant to APIs (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR, Open Banking)