Senior Technical Product Manager – Platform Services

The Role: 

We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to own and evolve core platform and API capabilities that underpin our products and partner integrations. This role sits at the intersection of engineering platform stakeholders and downstream product teams with primary responsibility for defining platform requirements shaping API strategy and ensuring our APIs scale reliably as usage and consumer demand grow. The ideal candidate is deeply technical API‑literate and comfortable working hands‑on with engineers to define roadmaps requirements and operating metrics. They understand how APIs are designed documented consumed and governed and they can translate diverse consumer needs into a coherent prioritized platform strategy.

Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco CA.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision and roadmap for core platform APIs and services ensuring alignment with company strategy engineering capacity and partner needs.
• Define and evolve API strategies that support current consumers while anticipating future scale growth and extensibility.
• Lead quarterly and multi-year roadmap planning balancing reliability performance developer experience and delivery velocity.

• Define clear testable API product requirements in partnership with engineering including:
  • Functional behavior
  • Performance expectations
  • Backward compatibility standards
• Ensure API documentation is accurate complete and usable for both internal and external consumers.
• Participate in API design reviews contributing to:
  • Endpoint design
  • Naming conventions
  • Data contracts

• Partner with engineering to define and track:
  • SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
  • SLOs (Service Level Objectives)
  • Operational KPIs
• Forecast and monitor API consumer growth including:
  • Call volumes
  • Usage patterns (MoM QoQ)
• Identify scaling risks early and drive proactive product decisions.

• Serve as the primary product interface for API consumers:
  • Internal product teams
  • Partners
  • External integrators
• Gather and prioritize consumer needs based on real usage patterns.
• Clearly communicate platform decisions tradeoffs and roadmap updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Partner closely with engineering grounding decisions in:
  • System design
  • Data models
  • Technical constraints
• Actively engage with APIs using tools like Postman or curl to:
  • Validate functionality
  • Support troubleshooting
  • Improve user experience
• Contribute to domain modeling including:
  • Entity relationships
  • Data ownership boundaries

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of product management experience with strong ownership of technical platform or API-driven products
• Proven experience managing API roadmaps in production environments
• Hands-on experience with:
  • API requirements definition
  • Documentation review
  • API design tradeoffs
• Experience defining and operationalizing SLAs SLOs and reliability metrics
• Ability to forecast and manage API usage growth and scaling considerations
• Experience working with diverse API consumer personas and prioritizing competing needs
• Familiarity with API tools (e.g. Postman curl)
• Strong understanding of:
  • Domain modeling
  • Entity relationships
  • Data contracts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with regulated platforms (e.g. fintech financial services data-sensitive systems)
• Experience working with:
• • • Platform infrastructure
    • Identity and security systems
    • Data services teams

For residents of San Francisco CA the annual salary range for this role is $169000-$205000 annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography candidate experience and expertise bonus and other factors

What We Do

At Forge (NYSE: FRGE) we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold humble and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation from space travel to planet-saving plant-based nutrition and more. With liquidity solutions exclusive data and insights a custody offering and a vibrant marketplace Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent accessible and seamless for companies their employees and investors. Through Forge employees can sell their private shares employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and it is building a growing network effect with defensible competitive advantages. The Forge marketplace has over 440000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21000+ transactions. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors demand from customers and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies teams and innovators in this way.

Why Work With Us

At Forge we offer extensive opportunities for growth to provide employees with endless possibilities developing careers through unique experiences. The diversity of skills experience and thought is what drives innovation within our walls.

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