Principal Product Manager - Integrated Retail

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to define and scale their next-generation API ecosystem, ensuring seamless integrations with retailers and partners.

Responsibilities:

• Define the 3–5 year vision and roadmap for Progressive’s API platform, aligned with company strategy and future platform growth
• Own the API product portfolio and prioritization across internal and external consumers
• Act as the primary product authority for Progressive’s API platform
• Lead the end-to-end API lifecycle including discovery, design, development, launch, versioning, and deprecation
• Establish and own API governance, including design standards, documentation quality, security practices, and lifecycle policies
• Ensure APIs are intuitive, secure, well-documented, and easy for partners and internal teams to adopt
• Partner closely with Retail Operations, engineering, sales, and customer success to enable retailer integrations at scale
• Understand retailer technical constraints and integration friction, translating those insights into scalable platform capabilities rather than bespoke solutions
• Build and maintain reusable integration standards, best practices, and developer enablement resources
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, security, compliance, legal, analytics, marketing, and go-to-market teams
• Partner with risk and compliance teams to ensure APIs are designed for regulated fintech environments
• Support enterprise and strategic partnerships with technical diligence and platform storytelling
• Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as API adoption, usage, latency, error rates, reliability, and partner satisfaction
• Participate in incident reviews impacting partners and drive product-level improvements and roadmap adjustments
• Continuously refine the platform based on data, feedback, and business outcomes
• Manage and mentor product managers responsible for individual APIs or platform surfaces
• Establish product management standards, rituals, and best practices across the API portfolio
• Develop PMs to own day-to-day execution while this role focuses on platform strategy, governance, and scale

Requirements:

• 5+ years product leadership experience in B2B SaaS, platforms, payments, fintech, or API-focused roles
• 3+ years leading products involving technical integrations (SDKs, APIs, plug-ins)
• Strong understanding of REST, OAuth, API keys, cloud technologies, and CI/CD
• Proven ability to define and communicate strategic roadmaps
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field