AppFolio · 10 hours ago
Sr. Product Manager, Data Platform
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level
$138K/yr - $173K/yrAppFolio is a technology leader in the real estate industry, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Data Platform. This role involves leading teams responsible for data pipelines and engineering capabilities, defining the data platform vision, and ensuring high-quality data access across various applications.
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Responsibilities
Define the Data Platform Vision: Build and evolve the strategy for AppFolio’s next-generation data architecture, spanning ingestion pipelines, transformation frameworks, data quality, and query services
Enable Intelligent Systems: Power capabilities across Realm-X, Flows, Performers, and Performance Insights by ensuring unified, high-quality, and real-time data access
Empower Builders: Partner with internal development teams to deliver self-service data tooling, documentation, and APIs that reduce cognitive load and accelerate innovation
Drive Data Quality and Governance: Establish consistent standards for lineage, observability, and accuracy to ensure confidence in every decision powered by AppFolio product data
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Product leaders to align priorities and deliver platform capabilities that scale
Measure Impact: Define and track key outcomes such as data freshness, latency, and adoption of data APIs and frameworks, using these insights to continuously improve
Qualification
Required
You've shipped platform products that other developers depend on
You understand the difference between building features for end-users and building capabilities that enable other builders
You know platform adoption is earned, not mandated
You think in systems and second-order effects
When someone proposes a change, you immediately map dependencies, blast radius, and migration paths
You see how solving one problem might create three others—and you design to prevent that
Engineers forget you're a PM
You can read schema definitions, debug API responses, write SQL queries, and understand why eventual consistency matters
You don't need to write production code, but you need to understand the technical constraints engineers work within
You balance urgency with pragmatism
You know when to ship the 80% solution that unblocks teams today versus when to hold out for the right architecture
You use 'strangler fig' patterns instead of big rewrites
You make data-driven tradeoffs
You define metrics that matter (not vanity metrics), run experiments before big bets, and adjust course based on what adoption data tells you—not what you wish were true
You communicate technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders
You translate latency budgets into business impact, schema versioning into customer value, and observability gaps into risk decisions executives can make
Preferred
You've built data platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products that serve internal teams
You've worked in modern data stacks (Kafka, Flink, dbt, Trino, GraphQL, data mesh architectures)
You have experience designing APIs, data contracts, or schema management systems
You've overseen implementing governance at scale without creating bureaucracy
You've managed platform migrations while keeping production systems running
You have a background in data engineering, distributed systems, or software development
Company
AppFolio
AppFolio is a cloud business management solutions provider for the real estate industry.
Founded in 2006
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
Investment Group of Santa BarbaraCisco,HeadlineHeadline
2015-06-26IPO
2013-11-01Series Unknown
2009-08-18Series C· $8M
Leadership Team
Shane Trigg
President and CEO
Tim Eaton
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-11-25
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