Plaid · 14 hours ago
Senior Staff Product Manager - API & Developer Experience
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$227K/yr - $400K/yr
8+ years expPlaid is dedicated to empowering financial transformation by building tools for developers. As the Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will lead the strategy for how developers integrate with Plaid's API, aiming to create a seamless and delightful onboarding experience.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Define and lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for developer experience across API onboarding, documentation, SDKs, error handling, developer tooling, sandbox, and support flows
Deeply understand the needs of Plaid developers through direct engagement, research, data, and collaboration with our Developer Relations team to turn developer feedback into product improvements
Collaborate with Engineering and Design to ship intuitive, high-quality experiences that reduce time-to-first-call and increase successful integrations
Champion a high-quality, consistent and delightful developer experience
Balance qualitative feedback & intuition with quantitative success metrics to drive high-quality decisions. Own and report on success metrics like activation rate, dev NPS, time to integration, and SDK adoption
Qualification
Required
8+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record in developer platforms, API products or technical infrastructure
Deep technical fluency. You are extremely comfortable working with APIs, SDKs, and technical documentation
Passion for the developer experience. You care deeply about great tooling, intuitive docs, and reducing friction
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You can clearly articulate product ideas to both engineers and executives
Hands-on experience as a developer. You know what it's like to be the dev reading your docs and have strong opinions about what makes a great development experience
Preferred
Experience at a fintech, infrastructure, or API-first company
Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman, GitHub, or API client tooling
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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