API Product Lead

Harvey • New York, NY

2d • $213,600 - $300,000

About The Position

The API Product Lead at Harvey owns the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Harvey’s APIs, which enable law firms and in-house legal teams to integrate with and build on the platform. The role translates customer demand into a product customers can adopt, build on, and derive value from, while balancing new capabilities with the reliability, security, and scale required for production use.

The role defines the API product vision and roadmap in alignment with company strategy and evidence from customers, usage data, and the market. It works closely with engineering, solutions architects, and go-to-market teams to ship and is accountable for adoption and production usage. The position owns planning, prioritization, and roadmapping; defines and tracks product metrics; connects customers and support teams with engineering; and raises product quality through rigorous specifications, reviews, and decision-making.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of product management experience shipping and scaling software platforms in a production environment, with a track record of measurable impact.
• Experience owning APIs or developer platforms end to end, from design and documentation through adoption and monetization.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems and deep customer needs into clear strategy, crisp requirements, and prioritized roadmaps.
• Fluency working with engineering on technical trade-offs, and familiarity with API design, authentication and access control, rate limits, and usage metering sufficient to make informed decisions.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to define metrics and use data to guide decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders across product, engineering, and go-to-market.
• High quality bar, strong product judgment, and an instinct for identifying where developer or customer experiences could break down.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision and roadmap for Harvey’s APIs, aligned with company strategy and informed by customer evidence, usage data, and the market.
• Own planning, prioritization, and roadmapping, making and communicating clear decisions that balance new capabilities with reliability, performance, and security.
• Work with engineering, solutions architects, and go-to-market teams to deliver API product improvements.
• Own outcomes for API adoption and production usage.
• Define and track metrics covering who is building on Harvey, what they are building, and how much they use the platform; hold the team accountable to those metrics.
• Connect customers building on Harvey and the teams supporting them with engineering.
• Raise the product bar through rigorous specifications, reviews, and decision-making.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed