Staff Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem

Bamboohr17
Utah, US
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior product managers with developer ecosystem experience who can align technical and commercial priorities.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years managing developer platforms and partner ecosystems where revenue is tied to partnerships.
    — “8+ years in product management on developer platforms, public APIs, or partner ecosystems”
  • Individuals who have set API-first standards and driven decisions with senior engineering teams.
    — “Enough credibility with senior engineers and architects to drive API and protocol decisions on your own”
  • Candidates who can balance AI integration, open protocols, and third-party marketplace requirements simultaneously.
    — “Own BambooHR's presence in AI assistant ecosystems and marketplaces, including connector strategy built on open protocols”

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work model requires regular in-office days, which may not suit fully remote preferences.
    — “this is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week”
  • Employment requires passing a background and credit check, which may limit eligibility.
    — “employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience setting integration roadmaps and aligning them with revenue commitments.
    — “co-own category-level revenue assumptions with the VP of Partnerships”
  • Emphasize your ability to arbitrate between partner demand and platform standards.
    — “arbitrate when partner demand and platform standards conflict”
  • Showcase technical fluency in API design and authentication with concrete examples.
    — “Technical depth in API design and authentication patterns”
  • Demonstrate expertise in open protocols like MCP and AI agent ecosystems.
    — “Experience with AI agent protocols and assistant ecosystems such as MCP”
  • Demonstrate experience running developer portals as a product with self-service features.
    — “Run the developer portal as a product: self-service registration, authentication, app management”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Developed and executed a successful developer ecosystem strategy
  • Increased partner and customer satisfaction
Typical background
Product management experienceTechnical background

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementAPI ManagementDeveloper EcosystemRoadmap ManagementSales EnablementPartner Management

Preferred

AI IntegrationMarketplace Strategy

Stack & domain

CuriosityAdaptabilityLeadershipCommunicationAIHrProduct Management

About the role

Original posting from Bamboohr17 via Greenhouse

Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

AI at BambooHR: At BambooHR, we believe in leveraging cutting-edge technology to empower people and transform HR. We’re actively integrating AI into our solutions and workflows to enhance efficiency and drive innovation. To that end, we’re looking to our existing team members and future hires to share this forward-thinking mindset: individuals who are curious about AI’s potential, eager to learn and adapt, and ready to explore how intelligent tools can elevate their work along with BambooHR’s impact on setting people free to do great work. Join us in reimagining the future of HR!

Essential Job Duties

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.

This is 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.

You will:

Own the integration-category roadmap the partnerships organization sells against, making the build, co-build, or aggregate call for each one. Every committed category maps to something that exists, is dated, or was declined on the record.

Co-own category-level revenue assumptions with the VP of Partnerships. When partnerships commits to a number, you're accountable for the product plan underneath it.

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 such as MCP, the vendor submission and review relationships, and how AI agents act against the platform safely.

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. What a partner or an AI assistant may see and do is a product decision you help make.

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.

What You Need to Get the Job Done

You feel aligned with the BambooHR values

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.

You can hold a roadmap accountable to a revenue plan you share with a commercial organization that owns the relationships and the sellers.

Technical depth in API design and authentication patterns. You can read a spec, challenge an endpoint design, and make principled calls on versioning, scoping, and deprecation.

Comfort building on open protocols that change quarterly, where you're expected to become the company's expert on them.

You treat developers as customers. Documentation, onboarding, and support experience are product surfaces you own.

Proven ability to set standards and drive alignment across many teams without direct authority.

Enough credibility with senior engineers and architects to drive API and protocol decisions on your own.

Clear, direct communication with both technical and commercial audiences, up to and including executive review.

You identify the next constraint and move toward it without waiting for direction.

AI is already woven through how you work, not sprinkled on top of it. You use it to prototype more than you could before and to pressure-test your own thinking.

What Will Make Us REALLY Love You

Experience with AI agent protocols and assistant ecosystems such as MCP, or shipping connectors into third-party marketplaces.

Partner or marketplace ecosystem product management in a SaaS environment where partnerships carried a material share of revenue.

Familiarity with fine-grained authorization models for third-party and machine access.

Experience mentoring product managers as a senior individual contributor.

What You'll Love About Us

A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune

Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance

Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life

401k plans with up to 6% company match

$2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus

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About Us

At BambooHR, we're building something different: we're building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work! We're a proven market leader driving innovation while building lasting success through thoughtful, sustainable growth. Here, you'll find a place that champions growth: both professional and personal, both individual and collective. 

We invest in potential, giving you the space to stretch your capabilities and turn good ideas into reality while providing the safety net of a supportive, values-driven culture. Our approach combines meaningful work with meaningful lives, offering competitive benefits, professional development, and the flexibility to thrive both in and outside the office. 

What sets us apart isn't just what we do, but how we do it: with openness, integrity, and a shared commitment to doing the right thing. Join us in creating HR software that makes work better for everyone, while we make work better for you.

BambooHR is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.  If you would like to request accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

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Source: Bamboohr17 careers (Greenhouse)

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