Senior Product Manager (Enterprise MCP/AI Control Plane)

Workato•Palo Alto, CA

About The Position

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company. We also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

Requirements

4–5 years of product management experience, with at least 2 years on API platforms, API gateways, integration platforms, or developer infrastructure.
Deep technical fluency in API management and gateway architecture — you understand the difference between an API gateway, an ingress controller, and a service mesh, and can hold your own in design reviews on rate limiting, routing, policy enforcement, and observability.
Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and modern identity patterns (authorization code flow, client credentials, DCR, token exchange). You can read an RFC and tell engineering whether the proposed design is spec-compliant.
Track record of shipping technical products to enterprise customers, including writing PRDs that engineers respect and running design partner programs.
Strong written communication — you can move fluently between a CISO briefing, a developer-facing blog post, and a six-page strategy doc.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI Gateway, LLM proxy, or agent runtime products (e.g., LiteLLM, Portkey, Kong AI Gateway, or in-house equivalents).
Bonus if you've thought hard about prompt injection, tool poisoning, or agent identity.
Hands-on familiarity with MCP as a spec — you've built an MCP server, integrated one, or have strong opinions about transports, resources vs. tools, and elicitation.
Prior experience at an iPaaS, API management vendor, or AI infrastructure company.
Analyst relations experience (Gartner MQ, Forrester Wave).
Conference speaking or technical writing presence in the API or AI infra communities.

Responsibilities

Drive the roadmap for one or more pillars of our gateway: authentication and identity (OAuth, OIDC, DCR, M2M), policy enforcement, observability, or runtime performance.
Define how MCP servers are designed, published, versioned, and governed across customer environments. Set quality bars and develop the frameworks (tiering, certification, server design best practices) that scale across the ecosystem.
Translate enterprise security, compliance, and audit requirements into shippable product. Work directly with CISO and platform teams at design-partner customers.
Partner with engineering leads on architecture decisions, with GTM on positioning and enablement, and with analyst relations on category-defining narratives (Gartner, Forrester).
Maintain a sharp point of view on the MCP landscape — OSS projects, hyperscaler offerings, and competing platforms — and translate that into product bets and differentiation.