Group Product Manager

**Application instructions**

**About Workato**:
**Why join us?**:
Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a **flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles**. We are driven by **innovation**and looking for **team players**who want to actively build our company.

But, we also believe in **balancing productivity with self-care**. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

Also, feel free to check out why:

- Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”
- Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

**Responsibilities**:
As **Group Product Manager**, you will define and execute the strategy to establish Workato as the enterprise leader in API Management. Your goal is to build a **unified platform**that enables the entire API lifecycle - eliminating the need for fragmented tools for enterprises to create a robust API strategy for their ecosystem.

**What You’ll Do**

**Leadership in Enterprise API Management**
- Develop and execute the product strategy for a unified API Platform supporting Design, Secure, Publish, Monitor and Consumption.
- Define and prioritize the roadmap to become the leader in Full Lifecycle API Management market
- Deliver the best experience for API Platform owners, developers and consumers.

**Drive AI-Powered Innovation**
- Leverage AI to enhance API discovery and adoption that increases ROI for enterprises.
- Integrate **semantic enrichment**to automate API documentation and guides to improve API consumer experience.
- Integration **predictive analytics**to offer advanced monitoring and alerting capabilities to API Platform teams.
- Work with **AI research teams**to infuse machine learning into Workato’s API services, driving continuous optimization and smarter decision-making.

**Build End-to-End Governance & Operations**:

- Build API management capabilities into the core platform, ensuring enterprises have built-in governance, monitoring, development speed and ease of consumption.
- Ensure compatibility with the rest of Workato’s orchestration suite, such as **asset lifecycle management, developer API support, deployment options, operations**and **observability**, and **Embed**.
- Ensure the platform meets **enterprise security, compliance, and scalability requirements**, making Workato the go-to API management solution for large-scale deployments.

**Lead Cross-Functional Execution**:

- Collaborate with engineering, UX, and GTM teams to ensure seamless feature adoption.
- Inspire confidence in GTM teams, as well as customers, to see Workato as the innovative leader in the API Management space.
- Act as a thought leader internally and externally, driving customer trust and enterprise adoption.

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications / Experience / Soft Skills**:
**Leadership & Product Management**:

- 10+ years of product management experience in SaaS or B2B environments, specializing in API management products.
- Proven success in shipping and scaling complex data products with measurable business impact.
- Strong track record in leading cross-functional teams, influencing product strategy, and driving execution in fast-paced environments.

**API Management Expertise**
- Deep expertise in API Gateway, API Management, Developer Portals and API Lifecycle, and API Federation.
- Strong understanding of modern API architecture including, AuthN/AuthZ, API Security, API Standards, Identity Management, Telemetry, Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with API management tools (Apigee, Kong) and API Implementation tools (Azure, AWS, GCP) and iPaaS (Boomi, Mulesoft) to build scalable API programs.
- Familiarity with emerging API technologies like service mesh, serverless cloud gateway, AsyncAPI, edge computing, predictive autoscaling, secrets manager, and their impact on enterprise API strategies.

**AI & Intelligent Data Automation**
- Experience integrating AI/ML-driven insights into API monitoring and discovery to enhance security and adoption of APIs.
- Strong understanding of predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and semantic data enrichment for operational intelligence.

**Customer-Centric Execution**
- Ability to deeply understand customer needs across platform teams, development teams, and API consumers.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into intuitive, user-friendly product capabilities.
- Skilled at collaborating with engineering, UX, security, legal, and go-to-market teams to drive enterprise adoption.

**Analytical & Data-Driven Decision Making**
- Strong ability to use customer research, data analytics, and competitive insights to inform p