Description
We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to make BambooHR the easiest HR platform to build on. You'll own the public developer surface end to end: the APIs, the SDKs, the developer portal, the documentation bar, and the connectors that put BambooHR inside the AI tools and marketplaces our customers already work in.
You'll serve three customers on one roadmap: partners, our customers' own developers, and AI agents. The partnerships organization owns the relationships and the commercial terms. This role decides what exists for them to sell, and partner-sourced revenue is now a company-level commitment.
As a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, you'll set the patterns the product managers building partner integrations work within, and you'll be the product voice in API and protocol decisions alongside senior engineers and architects.
Responsibilities:
- Own the integration-category roadmap the partnerships organization sells against, making the build, co-build, or aggregate call for each one.
- Co-own category-level revenue assumptions with the VP of Partnerships.
- Own the public API and SDK roadmap: what gets exposed, in what order, and to what standard, so partners can build without custom engineering support.
- Run the developer portal as a product: self-service registration, authentication, app management, packaged integration patterns, and documentation good enough that nobody has to file a ticket.
- Own BambooHR's presence in AI assistant ecosystems and marketplaces, including connector strategy built on open protocols.
- Carry launch readiness through third-party marketplace and app-review processes, treating external approval timelines as shipping commitments.
- Set the API-first bar with internal product teams and own the review path new public capabilities go through, so they ship with public-grade contracts.
- Work with security and identity teams on the authorization model for third parties and agents.
- Guide the product managers building partner integrations, set the co-build patterns they work within, and arbitrate when partner demand and platform standards conflict.
- Measure the ecosystem like a product: developer adoption, time to first integration, coverage of the categories partners ask for most, and the revenue they influence.
Requirements:
- 8+ years in product management on developer platforms, public APIs, or partner ecosystems, including a role where partner-sourced revenue was a company-level commitment.
- Experience making and defending build-versus-partner-versus-aggregate economics calls.
- Technical depth in API design and authentication patterns.
- Comfort building on open protocols that change quarterly.
- Treat developers as customers.
- Proven ability to set standards and drive alignment across many teams without direct authority.
- Clear, direct communication with both technical and commercial audiences.
- AI is already woven through how you work.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with AI agent protocols and assistant ecosystems.
- Partner or marketplace ecosystem product management in a SaaS environment.
- Familiarity with fine-grained authorization models for third-party and machine access.
- Experience mentoring product managers as a senior individual contributor.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Generous leave policies
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
- EAP through Headspace