Senior Product Manager – Technical, API & Integrations

Juniper Square

19h•$150,000 - $190,000

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Technical Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, rollout, and lifecycle management of Juniper Square’s API product suite. In this role, you will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for APIs that enable seamless integration between our core platform, our clients’ proprietary technology stacks, and key third-party platforms across the fintech ecosystem. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, architecture, security, compliance, client success, and business stakeholders to design scalable API solutions that meet rigorous technical and regulatory standards. You will also work directly with clients’ technical teams to understand their integration requirements and ensure smooth adoption of our API products. This role requires deep technical acumen, strong product leadership, experience in API ecosystems, great client engagement skills, and the ability to translate complex integration needs into clear, actionable product requirements.

Requirements

5–8+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager or similar role, with at least 3 years specifically managing API products or technical platforms.
Strong understanding of RESTful API design, data modeling, authentication/authorization frameworks, and integration patterns.
Hands-on experience working with client engineering teams to enable API adoption or build integrations.
Skilled in translating complex technical concepts into clear product requirements.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps practices.
Familiarity with third-party APIs, middleware, data integration solutions, or enterprise integration patterns.
Strong technical acumen, analytical mindset, and ability to understand system architectures and data flows.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Background in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services.
Prior work with API gateways, developer portals, and API management tools (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway)
Prior experience with IPaaS solutions such as Mulesoft, Zapier, Workato
Prior experience working with 3rd party vendors/consultants in developing client solutions (e.g. Delloit, Alpha)
Understanding of regulatory considerations relevant to APIs (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR, Open Banking).

Responsibilities

Define and own the API product vision, long-term strategy, and roadmap, aligning with company goals and customer integration needs.
Identify opportunities to expand our API offerings to support new financial products, data capabilities, and partnership integrations.
Implement industry best practices in API-first products to ensure we meet and exceed scale, security and compatibility standards
Translate business and client integration requirements into detailed product requirements, user stories, and API specifications.
Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to design RESTful API endpoints, data models, versioning standards, authentication mechanisms, and integration workflows.
Prioritize API features, enhancements, and technical debt based on customer impact, business value, and engineering capacity.
Manage full lifecycle of API products including development, testing, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and migration planning.
Act as the primary product-facing technical liaison to client engineering teams, understanding integration requirements and helping them adopt our APIs successfully.
Lead discovery sessions with clients to map data flows, identify integration challenges, and propose API-based solutions.
Support technical onboarding by ensuring clear documentation, sample code, sandbox environments, SDKs, and troubleshooting guides.
Collaborate with implementation and support teams to resolve integration issues and optimize API usage.
Work closely with engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, performance, and security of API products.
Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure APIs meet regulatory requirements and follow best practices for data protection.
Collaborate with product marketing to articulate API capabilities, value propositions, and go-to-market messaging.
Coordinate with sales and client success to provide technical product insights and support pre- and post-sales discussions.
Establish and maintain API governance standards including versioning, documentation guidelines, lifecycle management, and design best practices.
Evaluate and integrate third-party technologies, APIs, and data services that enhance our product ecosystem.
Work with our engineering teams to ensure reliable API deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and uptime performance.
Drive continuous improvements to API usability, developer experience, performance, and reliability.