Principal Technical Product Manager

Job Description

What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That’s why we’re looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to join Procore’s journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager in our Ecosystem Division, you will be responsible for the strategy, definition, usability, and performance of our API Gateway and Integration Platform for internal and external developers.  We have developed a robust digital ecosystem that elevates the Procore brand and delivers 350+ strategic partnerships for our customers.  To be successful, the technical product manager needs to have technical and business acumen along with a passion for delighting users with simple solutions and engaging digital experiences. You will be valued as a technical subject matter expert among business and engineering partners for your ability to maximize the value of your products and services through thoughtful, data-driven problem solving, crisp definition of MVP solutions, and cross-functional collaboration.  If you have a passion for solving complex problems unique to running large, highly scalable, resilient systems, we would love for you to join us!

This position will report to the VP of Product, Platform and Ecosystem with the opportunity to be located in the Austin, TX office. Remote candidates will be considered based on experience with the expectation of occasional travel to our other offices. We’re looking for someone to join our team immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Create and drive API strategy and technical product requirements with Architects and Eng leads (API gateway, federation, security, performance, load balancing, throttling, metering, charge models, etc)

• Responsible for determining business needs, understanding market demands, technical trends, problem solving and proposing solutions.

• Consult across product teams for API design & implementation best practices

• Define requirements for internal dev tooling and API compliance and validation

• Define API lifecycle management & policies at Procore (governance, guidelines, definition of done, breaking change policies, etc)

• Own and maintain API gateway traffic reporting and metrics

• Create dashboard/reporting requirements and KPIs to measure performance and adoption

• Influences decisions by providing technical consultation and direction to stakeholders

• Recommend new technology trends and innovative products/features to the team

• Measure feature success post deployment and feeds insights back to the team and business partner

• Identify and documents technical tradeoffs as well as dependencies and constraints

• Effective communications of roadmaps, product delivery milestones, and progress

What we're looking for:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related discipline; or comparable work experience. Technical Certifications are a plus

• 7+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years managing APIs, API Gateways, SDKs, or other developer-facing products

• 2+ years experience with API Security (Auth N/Z)  & Compliance 

• Experience working with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, and GraphQL at scale

• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design principles

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, fluid, dynamic environment

• Strategic, analytical thinker with the ability to make data-driven decisions

• Exceptional collaboration, partnership, and influencing skills

• Strong prioritization skills of competing needs and tradeoffs to articulate a clear rationale

• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization

• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making

• Ability to gain deep understanding of the system architecture and design concepts behind complex, enterprise-class software solutions at high transaction volumes

• Talent for designing future-proof solutions with an eye towards future use cases, scalability, and maintainability.

• Ability to build consensus across a diverse group of stakeholders

• Consistent use of strong verbal and written communication skills to influence outcomes

Additional Information

Base Pay Range $160,000-$220