Product Manager, API & Maps

Vaisala•Newland, NC

5d•$110,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Vaisala Xweather is seeking a Technical Product Manager for API & Maps to own the strategy and roadmap for its Weather API and mapping products, including SDKs and the developer experience. The role works with customers, engineering, and commercial teams to identify opportunities, set priorities, and drive adoption and revenue growth. A key strategic focus is shaping how services are discovered, integrated, and consumed through AI-assisted development, AI applications, and agent workflows. This hybrid position is based in Vaisala’s Minneapolis, Minnesota office. The role involves customer discovery, product strategy, analyzing usage and revenue data, pricing and packaging, delivery planning, developer experience improvements, and management of product launches and lifecycle transitions. Success is measured through a focused roadmap, strong customer relationships, improved integration success and adoption, paid conversion, retention, revenue growth, and AI investments that create meaningful customer and business value.

Requirements

At least 3 years as a product manager for technical products, with roadmap ownership and accountability for business results.
Practical API fluency, including REST, HTTP, JSON, authentication, errors, and rate limits; ability to test requests, inspect responses, and understand integration workflows and code examples.
Ability to independently query and analyze usage and revenue data using SQL or comparable tools and turn findings into decisions.
Understanding of product-led growth, including free tiers, trial-to-paid conversion, usage-based pricing, retention, and expansion.
Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development and AI applications that consume APIs or data services, and ability to translate those changes into product priorities.
Strong customer discovery, technical communication, and written requirements skills, with sound judgment, organization, and follow-through.
Availability to collaborate with US-based engineering teams and customers during core US business hours.
Relevant experience may come from product management or another technical role with substantial product ownership.
Must currently be eligible to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

Experience launching AI-powered products or capabilities, including evaluating quality, cost, adoption, and monetization.
Mapping or geospatial experience, including layers, tiles, coordinates, raster or vector data, or libraries such as Mapbox, MapLibre, Google Maps, or Leaflet.
Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or technical B2B products, including successful growth experiments or pricing and packaging changes.
Ability to adapt JavaScript or Python examples, or experience developing web or mobile applications.
Familiarity with weather or environmental data and applications that depend on timely, reliable information.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and roadmap, using customer research, market insight, and business priorities to define product direction, differentiation, and investment decisions.
Lead customer discovery and understand customer workflows and business needs; discuss product capabilities, limitations, and integration approaches with developers and technical stakeholders.
Shape the AI strategy for API and Maps by identifying changes in customer needs and service consumption, and prioritizing opportunities based on customer value, feasibility, reliability, and economics.
Analyze usage and revenue data and partner with marketing and engineering to improve activation, paid conversion, retention, and expansion.
Work with commercial teams on positioning, usage-based pricing, and monetization opportunities.
Define problems, requirements, and success measures, and partner with engineering on scope and tradeoffs across capabilities, performance, reliability, and compatibility.
Improve developer onboarding, documentation, examples, and integrations to help customers move from evaluation to production.
Manage product launches, API version transitions, deprecations, and sunset decisions, including customer communication and migration plans; evaluate outcomes and adjust priorities based on evidence.