Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to define and scale their next-generation API ecosystem, ensuring seamless integrations with retailers and partners.
Responsibilities
- Define the 3–5 year vision and roadmap for Progressive’s API platform, aligned with company strategy and future platform growth
- Own the API product portfolio and prioritization across internal and external consumers
- Act as the primary product authority for Progressive’s API platform
- Lead the end-to-end API lifecycle including discovery, design, development, launch, versioning, and deprecation
- Establish and own API governance, including design standards, documentation quality, security practices, and lifecycle policies
- Ensure APIs are intuitive, secure, well-documented, and easy for partners and internal teams to adopt
- Partner closely with Retail Operations, engineering, sales, and customer success to enable retailer integrations at scale
- Understand retailer technical constraints and integration friction, translating those insights into scalable platform capabilities rather than bespoke solutions
- Build and maintain reusable integration standards, best practices, and developer enablement resources
- Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, security, compliance, legal, analytics, marketing, and go-to-market teams
- Partner with risk and compliance teams to ensure APIs are designed for regulated fintech environments
- Support enterprise and strategic partnerships with technical diligence and platform storytelling
- Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as API adoption, usage, latency, error rates, reliability, and partner satisfaction
- Participate in incident reviews impacting partners and drive product-level improvements and roadmap adjustments
- Continuously refine the platform based on data, feedback, and business outcomes
- Manage and mentor product managers responsible for individual APIs or platform surfaces
- Establish product management standards, rituals, and best practices across the API portfolio
- Develop PMs to own day-to-day execution while this role focuses on platform strategy, governance, and scale
Skills
- 5+ years product leadership experience in B2B SaaS, platforms, payments, fintech, or API-focused roles
- 3+ years leading products involving technical integrations (SDKs, APIs, plug-ins)
- Strong understanding of REST, OAuth, API keys, cloud technologies, and CI/CD
- Proven ability to define and communicate strategic roadmaps
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation
- Full Health Benefits; Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance + Paid Parental Leave
- Company Matched 401k
- Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays + Paid Volunteer Hours
- Employee Resource Groups (Black Inclusion Group, Women in Leadership, PRIDE, Adelante)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Charitable Gift Matching
- Job required equipment and services
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