[Remote] Senior Product Manager, Developer Solutions

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ZBD is building the financial operating system for the gaming economy, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own their Developer Platform. This role involves managing APIs and SDKs, ensuring a seamless developer experience, and collaborating with various teams to drive the platform's success.ResponsibilitiesOwn the vision, roadmap, and execution for ZBD's developer-facing platform with a focus on shipping quickly, iterating often, and a bias towards impactDefine and evolve REST APIs and SDKs used across mobile, PC, and web. You'll set and uphold API standards: naming conventions, versioning, idempotency, backward compatibility, deprecation strategy, and error handlingPartner closely with our Head of DevX to ensure documentation, onboarding flows, and tooling reflect best-in-class developer standardsCollaborate with Payments and Compliance PMs to translate complex financial flows into clean, compliant developer primitives — abstracting the complexity without hiding the things developers actually need to knowEngage directly with game developers and partners throughout the sales and onboarding cycle. You can hold your own in a technical conversation, translate what you hear into product decisions, and close the feedback loop fastRun structured pilot programs with early partners, collecting real integration feedback and identifying friction points before they become blockersDefine and track platform health metrics including adoption, activation, time-to-first-transaction, integration success rate, API reliability, and revenue impactNavigate stakeholder environments across engineering, compliance, legal, sales, and fellow PMs, building alignment without losing momentumSkills6+ years of product management experience with direct ownership of commercial APIs or SDKs - external developer surfaces that drove real adoption, generated measurable revenue, and held up under production loadStrong opinions about API design: you've got strong opinions about idempotency, error handling, versioning strategy, and what a good developer onboarding experience looks like. You've probably been annoyed by someone else's API contractExperience with payments or financial infrastructure at the API layer; you understand how transactions flow, where things break, and what a payment API should (and shouldn't) includeA commercial instinct that runs alongside your technical one. You think about adoption, revenue, pricing, and what makes an API worth paying forEnough familiarity with gaming to have a point of view. You don't need to have shipped a AAA title, but you should understand how in-game payments work, why they're often poorly served by existing infrastructure, and what a better version could look likeTechnical credibility with engineers. You are the SME who champions our developer customer use cases - including ones they haven't thought of yet! You can read an API spec, catch the gaps in a schema, and thoughtfully engage on architecture decisionsThe ability to work within a platform structure where your surface is part of a larger system. You stay connected to what's being built around you and treat integration points as a first-class concernYou've built or integrated monetization or payment systems directly into games. Whether that's a live-service rewards loop, a battle pass economy, a marketplace, or player payouts, you have opinions about what makes those integrations painful or elegantYou've worked with platforms like Unity or Unreal as integration surfaces, and understand the constraints that come with shipping inside a game engineYou've shipped in regulated industries and know how to maintain compliance guardrails while still executing quicklyYou have experience with cryptocurrency or blockchain-based payment systemsYou've owned API reliability targets or SLAs for production systems with real consequences when things go wrongCompany OverviewZBD focuses on providing secure infrastructure to power real economies in digital experiences and environments. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://zbd.gg.Company H1B SponsorshipZBD has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.