
Product Lead - Opterra - Platform & API Experience
- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for Arcesium's API Experience Technology team, focusing on delivering a seamless, robust, and easy-to-use API ecosystem.
- Collaborate closely with engineering team to evolve and maintain the API framework powering APIs across Arcesium, ensuring core capabilities like authentication, serialization/deserialization, pagination, batching, throttling, and rate limiting are effectively implemented and continuously improved.
- Drive the quality, usability, and consistency of developer-facing assets including SDKs (Java, Python, .NET), comprehensive product documentation, interactive API playgrounds, and usage monitoring tools.
- Champion best practices for API lifecycle management within Arcesium's application/product teams to ensure smooth, consistent, and high-quality API experience.
- Lead thoughtful and strategic API change management processes, including versioning, deprecation, backward compatibility, and communication planning, to minimize disruption for internal and external API consumers.
- Engage with both internal stakeholders and external developer users at client organizations to gather feedback, identify pain points, and prioritize impactful product improvements.
- Measure and analyze API usage data and user feedback to guide roadmap priorities.
- Be involved in conducting competitor analysis
- Articulate business cases, estimate timelines and budgets and communicate with all stakeholders, prepare project plans, release notes, etc.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on goals, technical feasibility, and delivery cadence.
- 8+ years of overall work experience and a minimum of 2-year experience in product management managing technical products/platforms
- A strong understanding of API design, developer experience, and platform products.
- Customer empathy and a deep understanding of customer needs, preferably with experience in building products/platforms for developers
- Adept at balancing technical requirements with user and stakeholder needs both internally and at enterprise client organizations.
- Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality
- A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude
- A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution process