Sr. Product Manager, Technical

Position

Purpose:



We are seeking an experienced Sr. Product Manager, Technical to lead the strategy, development, rollout, and lifecycle management of YPO's API platform. In this role, you will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for the APIs that power YPO's Member ecosystem, Chapter operations, and Agentic AI platform.

You will work cross-functionally with Software Engineering, Product, IT, Data Architecture, and Security to design scalable, semantic API solutions that meet rigorous technical, privacy, and governance standards. You will also serve as the primary product-facing liaison to internal engineering consumers and external integration partners - ensuring smooth adoption and developer experience across the API surface.

This role requires deep technical acumen, strong product leadership, proven experience in API ecosystems, and the ability to translate complex integration needs into clear, actionable product requirements that engineering can build with confidence.

Your API Portfolio

You will own the three core API domains that power YPO's member-facing platform:

Member API
Stable, semantic endpoints exposing member profile, identity, peer discovery, and graph relationships. The foundation of member experience.

Chapter API
APIs powering chapter management, forum operations, event discovery, and role-based data access across YPO's global regional structure.

Agentic Ecosystem APIs
Governed API contracts for AI agents (Peer Discovery Agent, Event Discovery Agent) built on OpenAI + RAG and Google Gemini. Only approved APIs. Reasoning must be surfaceable.

Primary Responsibilities

1. API Product Strategy & Vision

Define and own the API product vision, long-term strategy, and roadmap for the Members, Chapters, and Agentic Ecosystem API domains, aligning with YPO's Digital Transformation goals and the V1 Trust Stack.

Identify opportunities to expand YPO's API offerings to support new member products, data capabilities, agentic use cases, and integration partnerships.

Implement industry best practices in API-first product development - ensuring YPO's APIs meet and exceed standards for scale, security, versioning, and developer experience.

Champion the Trust Stack principle: if backend data changes break the member experience, the API layer is not done.

2. API Product Development & Lifecycle Management

Translate member, chapter, and agentic integration requirements into detailed product requirements, user stories, and API specifications.

Work closely with Engineering, Governance and Data Architecture to design Graph

QL and RESTful API endpoints (via AWS API Gateway) including data models, versioning standards, authentication mechanisms (Auth0 / Okta), and integration workflows.

Prioritize API features, enhancements, and technical debt based on member impact, business value, and engineering capacity.

Manage the full lifecycle of API products including development, testing, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and migration planning - with zero implied continuations; every phase requires a new decision.

Ensure all APIs expose provenance and explanation metadata so agent reasoning is always surfaceable to the member.

3. Agentic Ecosystem Enablement

Serve as the product owner for the API contracts governing YPO's AI agents (Peer Discovery, Event Discovery) built on OpenAI + custom RAG and Google Gemini.

Define and enforce the safety contract: agents consume only approved APIs, never raw member data; every agent integration must include a kill-switch-capable API boundary.

Lead discovery sessions with data science, engineering, and product stakeholders to map agentic data flows, identify contract risks, and propose governed API-based solutions.

Establish feedback loop mechanisms in API design so agent hallucination rates, task success rates, and cost-per-outcome metrics are observable and attributable to specific API behaviors.

4. Developer & Integration Enablement

Act as the primary product-facing technical liaison for internal engineering consumers of the Members, Chapters, and Agentic APIs.

Ensure clear developer documentation, sample queries, sandbox environments, and troubleshooting guides exist for every API in the portfolio.

Support technical onboarding of new product teams and integration partners by ensuring APIs are self-service, well-documented, and stable.

Collaborate with IT and Engineering to resolve integration issues and continuously optimize API usability and adoption.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with Engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, performance, and security of all API products.

Partner with Data Architecture to ensure APIs maintain stable meaning over evolving backend schemas - frontend experience must be decoupled from vendor-specific fields.

Partner with IT and Security to ensure APIs enforce role-based access, chapter-scoped boundaries, and member consent policy (Auth0 / Okta, One Trust, GDPR, CCPA).

Collaborate with Product teams to articulate API capabilities, value…