Senior/Staff Product Manager, NZ, Infrastructure APIs & Developer Ecosystem

Auckland. Posted 7 months ago

The role

You will own the product for Partly's infrastructure APIs and developer ecosystem. This includes managing the Rails transactional product, building the external API program, and growing the developer ecosystem.

What you will do

Define and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for infrastructure and developer platform
Own metrics for the Rails transaction layer and developer ecosystem growth
Lead go-to-market alignment for API releases and integration partnerships
Maintain direct contact with integration partners and developers
Prototype API experiences and developer tooling using AI-assisted development
Work hands-on with data, including defining metrics and building dashboards
Partner with engineering leads to balance platform capability and technical sustainability
Design APIs for agentic consumption
Set standards for API design, documentation quality, and developer experience

Required qualifications

Proven experience owning developer-facing API products
Practical experience building or scaling a developer ecosystem
Deep understanding of developer experience as a product discipline
Commercial and technical depth to engage with engineers on API architecture
5+ years owning platform or infrastructure products
Ability to build rapid prototypes using AI-assisted tools, LLM-assisted development, or code
Strong analytical instinct to define metrics and read data

Nice to have

Experience designing APIs for agentic or LLM-based consumption
Familiarity with transactional or workflow APIs in domains such as payments, logistics, supply chain, or insurance
Experience running a partner or ISV program at scale
Comfort owning reliability, observability, and non-functional requirements
Founder background, or early employee at a platform-first startup that scaled materially
Domain knowledge in automotive aftermarket, collision repair, or insurance claims
Experience scaling developer platforms across multiple geographies
Experience with product-led growth motions applied to a developer or API product
Experience building or operating products with meaningful agentic or automation components

Benefits

Healthy, Catered Lunches
$1,500 annual wellness allowance
3 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
Flexible return-to-work plan for primary caregivers
Paid 24/7 parking spot or a commuting allowance
Architecturally designed offices
Quarterly season openers with travel and accommodation covered
Relocation assistance available
Weekly happy hours, monthly lunches, and an annual global offsite

About the company

Partly is building the infrastructure for anyone to repair anything, starting with the automotive market. The company uses frontier AI to provide repair knowledge and powers products like PartlyRepair and PartlyLabs.