Product Manager, API Platform

Glean

$190K — $270K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in product management, focusing on APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms.
  • Strong technical skills in understanding API contracts and implementation.
  • Experience designing scalable and robust APIs that are easy for developers to integrate.
  • Ability to empathize with developers and identify usability issues in products and documentation.
  • Proficient in translating developer needs into functional product specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and continuous improvement of public APIs and SDKs.
  • Ensure a seamless developer experience from onboarding to error handling.
  • Write code and build sample applications to identify usability issues firsthand.
  • Review and enhance product documentation from a developer's perspective.
  • Analyze support tickets to identify recurring issues and enhance design.
  • Establish and monitor key performance metrics for developer engagement.
  • Define and lock API requirements before engineering begins to prevent scope creep.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, vision, and dental.
  • Generous time-off policy to promote work-life balance.
  • Contributions to a 401k for retirement savings.
  • Home office improvement stipend to enhance remote work setup.
  • Annual education and wellness stipends for personal development.
  • Regular company events and healthy daily lunches to foster community and well-being.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

As Glean's PM on API Platform, you will lead the development of Glean's APIs, SDKs and MCP strategy for the developer persona within our customers and our partners. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, a deep understanding of developer needs, and a passion for building robust, scalable API and SDK solutions and show an ability to collaborate with some of the premier B2B product companies for our partnership strategy

You will:

  • Own the design and evolution of our public APIs and SDKs, including versioning, deprecation, and the backwards-compatibility promises we make.
  • Spec the developer experience end to end: auth, onboarding, first call, error handling, rate limiting, webhooks, and the long tail of edge cases that decide whether someone stays.
  • Write code. Build the sample apps, run the integrations, and feel the rough edges yourself before a customer does.
  • Read the docs like a developer who's never seen them, then fix the parts that lie or leave things out.
  • Dig into support tickets and forum threads for patterns. Treat a recurring question as a design defect, not a documentation gap to paper over.
  • Set and defend the metrics that matter: time-to-first-call, integration success rate, API error rates, and the ones that actually predict whether a developer ships.
  • Lock the API contract and requirements before engineering starts building, and hold the line when someone wants to bolt on scope mid-flight.


About you:

  • You have 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in platform, developer experience, API, SDK, or partnership-driven products
  • You are deeply technical and comfortable working through API contracts, request payloads, logs, telemetry, and implementation tradeoffs with engineers
  • You have built or led APIs and SDKs that are robust, scalable, and easy for external developers to adopt
  • You have strong product taste for developer interfaces and care about clear abstractions, consistent resource design, and machine-readable errors
  • You know how to think from the developer's point of view and can quickly spot where documentation, workflows, or product behavior become confusing
  • You have worked directly with customer and partner developers and know how to translate their needs into better platform products
  • You have experience integrating products with third-party enterprise applications and understand what it takes to make those integrations reliable in production
  • You write clearly and value concise specs, accurate documentation, and product experiences that tell developers what to do next
  • You define success with metrics and can track adoption, usability, and business impact for developer-facing products
  • You are excited about AI and motivated by helping customers and partners build more effectively with it


Location:

  • This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)


Compensation & Benefits:

The standard base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $270,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

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AI-First Mindset at Glean:

At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today - prior Glean experience isn't required.

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