VP, API Strategy & Product Management

Bentley Systems is seeking a visionary leader to serve as the VP, API Strategy & Product Management. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to establish a comprehensive API portfolio that maximizes developer adoption while driving strategic leadership and financial management for the API offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership & Vision: Collaboratively define, communicate, and drive the enterprise-wide API vision and platform strategy, influencing how the company builds, delivers, and monetizes its capabilities
• Business Ownership & Financial Management: Help define the monetization strategy and prioritize our API offerings. Regularly present updates and progress to the leadership team
• Performance & Accountability: Establish and champion a framework of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to drive performance, ensure accountability, and provide transparent reporting on the health of the API business
• Portfolio & Investment Management: Manage the API portfolio as a business, making data-driven decisions on investment, managing risk, and navigating strategic tradeoffs to maximize market opportunity and return on investment
• Leadership: Model effective leadership by bringing clarity, accountability, thoughtful decision-making, and a commitment to high standards. Contribute experience and perspective to help elevate outcomes and support the growth of others
• Governance & Execution: Establish and lead a cross-functional API governance council to ensure consistency, quality, and strategic alignment across the organization
• External Advocacy: Serve as a community advocate for Bentley’s API offerings at developer conferences, industry forums, and customer advisory board meetings
• Market Innovation: Lead the Infrastructure AI co-innovation program to identify, validate, and prioritize API improvements that anticipate and solve the needs of our users

Requirements:

• Previous experiences in leading product management for a technically oriented product, targeting developers, with a deep understanding of their needs and workflows
• Experience driving pragmatic approaches to achieve early market fit, setting clear milestones to align cross-functional teams and celebrating impactful wins to build momentum at scale
• Ability to lead the collaboration creation, communication, and execution of a visionary mid- to long-term roadmap, strategically integrating disparate APIs into a cohesive, differentiated platform offering that supports organizational growth and competitive advantage
• Proven experiences influencing without direct authority using business rationale
• Confidence and credibility to engage with a breadth of stakeholders, from individual developers to C-suite executives
• Track record of building, mentoring, and scaling product management teams through periods of high growth
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior-level talent, such as Directors and Principals, to build a strong leadership bench
• Authentic, credible, and inspirational public speaker with the ability to articulate a compelling vision to technical and business audiences alike
• Adaptable, humble, and always learning. Proven capable of working through steep learning curves with no task too small nor too big