API Product Lead

Harvey • San Francisco, CA

2d • $213,600 - $300,000

About The Position

The API Product Lead will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Harvey’s APIs, which enable law firms and in-house legal teams to integrate with and build on Harvey’s platform. The role turns 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 and drives 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 the product and is accountable for adoption and production usage. The position owns planning, prioritization, metrics, and product quality, serving as a connection between customers, customer-supporting teams, and engineering.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of product management experience shipping and scaling software platforms in a production environment, with measurable impact.
• Experience owning APIs or developer platforms end to end, from design and documentation through adoption and monetization.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems and deep customer needs into clear strategy, requirements, and prioritized roadmaps.
• Ability to work fluently with engineering on technical trade-offs and sufficient familiarity with API design, authentication and access control, rate limits, and usage metering to make informed decisions.
• Strong analytical skills, including defining metrics and using 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 sensitivity to potential breakdowns in developer or customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision and roadmap for Harvey’s APIs, aligned with company strategy and informed by customer, usage, and market evidence.
• Own planning, prioritization, and roadmapping, making and communicating clear prioritization decisions.
• Balance new capabilities against reliability, performance, and security.
• Define and track metrics covering who builds on Harvey, what they build, and how much they use it; hold the team accountable to those metrics.
• Work closely with engineering, solutions architects, and go-to-market teams to ship APIs and drive adoption and production usage.
• Connect customers building on Harvey with the teams supporting them and 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