API Product Manager

The client Enterprise API Developer Platform team contributes significantly to enabling our customer-focused experience through product management, enterprise governance, standardized customer experience and developer portal properties. We combine all those to extend the reach of lines of business and innovation to bank partners.

location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

job type: Contract

salary: $65.38 - 70.38 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

- Translate business requirements into user stories and API specifications using Swagger framework.

- Serve as the bridge between Line of Business partners and Engineering teams and ensure that everyone is working towards a shared goal.

- Work with internal and external partners to create and validate business critical use cases.

- Help establish OKRs and own development outcomes

- Create and manage user personas and brainstorm new API ideas.

- Help develop product charters to provide an understanding and vision for the API offering.

- Manage the API backlog, prioritize feature requests, bug fixes, and new initiatives based on data and user feedback.

- Collaborate with other teams including other enterprise platforms, engineering, architecture, and UX.

- Participate in Scrum ceremonies including daily standup, planning, grooming and Quarterly Planning sessions

- Oversee the development process, ensuring APIs adhere to established standards, naming conventions, and design principles.

- Review API design with Sr. Product Manager, API engineering team, QA, Compliance and other impacted teams

- Ensure APIs adhere to established standards, security protocols, naming conventions, and design principles.

- Track API performance, identify areas for improvement, and work with engineering teams to ensure APIs remain scalable and reliable.

- Apply product management, industry, and market expertise to brainstorm and create additional use-cases for the API

- Participate with business lines and marketing team to develop a marketing plan for the API

- Work with the QA team for test case creation and ensure all critical use cases are accounted for.

- Own all API documentation including documents for developer support, security, sales, sales training and marketing.

- Help set up and run Hackathons

- Participate in API monetization strategy if required

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

- 2+ years' experience working with APIs

- Understanding of RESTful concepts and JSON

- 3+ years of experiencing managing financial technology Products

- 2+ year of Agile experience

- Strong communication skills including verbal, written and collaboration tools.

- Strong PowerPoint skills with high attention to detail and visual presentation

- 2+ years of designing, programming, testing, or supporting APIs (though no API programming will be required for this specific role)

- 3+ years of Agile experience

- 1+ years of technical writing experience

- Excellent presentation skills and comfort presenting complex information to senior leadership

- Wireframing experience

- Working knowledge of Apigee.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.