Technical Product Manager - APIs

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At Worldpay you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

*****Please note that this role will be a hybrid onsite role located at our headquarters in Mason, Ohio.

*****This is not a role where we provide sponsorship/or transfer sponsorship

About the team:

At Worldpay, we are on a mission to modernize our technology and supercharge developers with APIs that are simple to integrate yet powerful. The Developer Experience and API Product team owns the vision for how we empower developers with innovative tools, products, and delightful self-service experiences.

Our team builds the API Platform and developer tools that enable Worldpay’s integrations across the world. This team plays a pivotal role in Worldpay, focusing on our API products and end-to-end user journeys in our developer portals. This team’s priority is to drive the strategy that enables Worldpay to deliver world-class experiences at every customer touchpoint. Because this team unifies capabilities across the merchant product portfolio, this is a highly collaborative team that works closely with stakeholders across the organization as well as internal teams such as other Product leaders, architecture, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing. 

What you will be doing:

Worldpay powers the technology behind some of the most innovative companies in the world and is known as the leading provider in the industry. As the Product Manager for APIs, you will be responsible for building APIs/webhooks and integrations. You will also be responsible for any partner relationships we leverage to deliver these experiences to our developer community (internal and external). You will use data-driven methodologies to evaluate opportunities in the market, deeply understand user needs and integrate competitive intelligence to build a compelling roadmap that expands Worldpay’s market-leading proposition. You will manage every stage of the product development lifecycle from ideation through development, GTM delivery and launch. You will also drive the identification and measurement of KPIs and closely monitor success of your product deliveries. The ideal candidate is an experienced Product Manager with real-world experience working at SaaS/technology companies, leading a product that is technical in nature, targeted for Developers.

The Technical Product Manager will be a product champion, a great team player who works with encouraging approach with cross functional teams. Curious, motivated, forward-thinking can-do attitude could join the team. This is an individual contributor role.  Within the role, your key responsibilities will be to:
 

• Own one or many developer products (e.g.: APIs, client libraries, webhooks, gateways, middleware, and developer portals.) from product definition and planning through production, GTM, release, distribution, maintenance, and end of life.
• Build the product roadmap based on clearly articulated customer and business value, with a focus on understanding Product-market fit, developing effective go-to-market processes, including pricing strategies, training plans, and ensuring effective delivery of Product propositions in new markets.
• Build collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders within operations, marketing, sales, and other cross functional teams to drive product success.
• Engage and interact with clients during feedback sessions, focus groups and requirements gathering sessions.
• Contribute to the product vision and strategy, act as the evangelist for your product with senior leadership and be the lead advocate for investment in the strategy.
• Be able to roll up the sleeves and decipher the architecture and determine if it meets product needs.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to design and build scalable, high performing developer facing products.
• Effectively prioritize the backlog managing competing business needs for new features, small enhancements, bug fixes and all other design and development activity related to your products.

What you bring:

We are looking for a dynamic, creative, hands-on Product innovator with the following attributes:

• Deep product management experience at a fast-paced company in the financial services sector, ideally payments domain.

• Proven hands-on experience with APIs, webhooks, 3rd party integrations, as a developer, architect, or product manager.