Senior Product Manager, External APIs

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.</p> <p>Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology.</p></div><h2>The Role You'll Play</h2> <ul> <li>Own the strategy, roadmap, and governance for Mindbody's external API ecosystem — the APIs that partners, integrators, and enterprise customers build on.</li> <li>Treat the API as a product. Set the standards for API design, authentication and authorization, versioning, deprecation lifecycle, rate limiting, and the SLAs our partners depend on.</li> <li>Shape the external developer experience, including documentation, support, sandbox environments, webhooks, and onboarding, so partners can integrate quickly and confidently.</li> <li>Be the voice of the external developer and partner. Turn integration pain points and usage patterns into a clear point of view on the highest-ROI opportunities for the ecosystem.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with the Partnerships team and external partners to land strategic integrations that solve real customer pain points and drive meaningful business value.</li> <li>Own the go-to-market for API changes, internally and externally. Drive CX, Sales, and Account Management enablement, and communicate clearly with partners and enterprise customers, so launches, versioning, and deprecations land smoothly.</li> <li>Define the success metrics for the ecosystem (adoption, partner activation, integration health, and reliability) and communicate the value of API investments through data-driven storytelling.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Experience You Bring</h2> <ul> <li>A track record of owning technical or platform products end to end, partnering closely with engineering to ship capabilities that other teams or developers build on. Experience with external or public-facing APIs is a strong bonus.</li> <li>Technical depth to engage credibly with engineering and architecture on system design, integration patterns, authentication, security, and data privacy. Familiarity with API-specific concerns such as versioning, rate limiting, and auth models like