Lead Product Manager, Consumer Platform

<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>About the Role</h2> <p>Every consumer experience Mindbody ships is built on top of our consumer platform. The platform is the shared foundation that lets our front-end squads deliver reliable, consistent wellness experiences without rebuilding the plumbing every time.</p> <p>This role exists to answer a deceptively simple question: what does the consumer platform need to become so that front-end squads can move fast on solid ground — and how do we get there from a legacy monolith without breaking the surfaces that depend on it today?</p> <p>This is a senior individual-contributor role for a product leader who is equally comfortable in two rooms: designing API contracts and service boundaries with a senior backend engineering team, and making the cross-surface platform calls that keep multiple consumer squads pulling in the same direction. You'll own the consumer platform roadmap, partner closely with engineering and your downstream partner squads, and be measured on how much faster and more reliably the rest of consumer can build because of the foundation you've shaped.</p> <h2>What you'll do&nbsp;</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Own the consumer platform strategy and roadmap.</strong> Define the capabilities the platform must provide so consumer surfaces can build reliable, consistent consumer experiences faster — and sequence the highest-ROI investments for a cross-functional engineering team.</li> <li><strong>Drive the evolution of the consumer API.</strong> Consolidate and redesign API contracts to reduce surface area and developer cognitive load; decompose the legacy Consumer API monolith into domain-driven services; deprecate legacy endpoints — evolving the architecture rather than rebuilding it from scratch.</li> <li><strong>Influence cross-surface platform and architecture decisions.</strong> Collaborate with Engineering counterpart on shared-infrastructure questions that span the consumer squads, partneri