Product Manager - Data API

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

The Weather Company is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and customer-obsessed Enterprise API Product Manager to lead and scale our API portfolio. The weather API portfolio includes over a hundred industry-agnostic as well as industry-specific weather APIs that are sold across a growing number of sales channels to customers around the globe.

This role will drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our Weather API product, ensuring it meets the needs of developers, businesses, and end-users. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, API development, and building intuitive self-serve platforms, with a passion for leveraging weather data to solve real-world problems. Your success will be the result of your strong business and technical acumen, an experimentation mindset, and a scrappy, self-starting attitude to iterate quickly, deliver value, and unlock growth. 

The impact you'll make:

• Own the Weather API Product Portfolio: Manage and evolve a diverse set of APIs, including foundational data APIs and vertical-specific solutions, ensuring product-market fit across multiple industries.
• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the weather data API and self-serve platform, aligning with business goals and customers' needs.
  API Development & Management: Collaborate with the API platform team to design, develop, and maintenance of a scalable, reliable, and secure weather data API, ensuring high performance, low latency, and robust documentation.
• Customer Journey Optimization: Drive the design and execution of the end-to-end product lifecycle—from customer discovery to trial, sale, and renewal—ensuring a frictionless journey and best-in-class developer experience.
• Self-Serve Platform Ownership: Lead the creation and optimization of a self-serve platform that enables developers and businesses to easily discover, access, and integrate the APIs, including features like API key management, usage analytics, and billing.
• API Marketplace Strategy: Partner with business leadership to execute strategies for API discovery, distribution, and monetization through marketplaces (e.g., AWS Marketplace, Snowflake, RapidAPI) and direct enterprise channels.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partner teams to align roadmap execution and go-to-market strategy.
• Experimentation & Innovation: Embrace a test-and-learn approach to rapidly experiment, validate concepts, and refine offerings based on data and user feedback.
• Market & Trend Analysis: Stay at the forefront of API trends, standards, protocols, and competitive landscape to inform product direction, identify new opportunities, and maintain a competitive edge.
• Metrics & Impact: Define and track KPIs to measure product adoption, customer engagement, API performance, and revenue impact.

What you've accomplished:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years focused on API products or developer platforms.
• Proven success in bringing APIs to market, ideally across both direct sales and marketplaces.
• Proven track record of designing and launching self-serve platforms, including features like user onboarding, subscription management, and analytics dashboards.
• Experience working with weather data, geospatial data, or similar data-intensive APIs is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of API design principles (e.g., RESTful APIs), authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys), and developer tooling.
• Deep appreciation for the developer experience and technical documentation standards.
• Business-savvy and commercially minded with experience crafting pricing, packaging, and monetization strategies.
• Analytical and data-driven; a passion for unpacking customer insights to guide decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to rally cross-functional teams toward a common goal.
• Scrappy, self-starter attitude with a bias for action and ownership.
• Passionate about solving customer problems and delivering frictionless, scalable solutions.
• Experience with API-first companies, SaaS platforms, or data providers.
• Familiarity with cloud marketplaces and third-party developer ecosystems.