{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5eed0b8aee328ff47aff96d6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5eed0b8aee328ff47aff96d6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5eed0b8aee328ff47aff96d6","title":"Senior Product Manager, Developer Platform","description":"Description\n\nWe’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own ZBD’s Developer Platform — the external interface between our financial infrastructure and the developers who build on top of it.\n\nYou will be responsible for our external-facing APIs, SDKs, authentication systems, webhooks, sandbox environments, and core developer tooling. Your mandate is to ensure developers can integrate payments and rewards into their games quickly, reliably, and with minimal friction.\n\nThis is a pivotal moment. You'll be building significant new platform capabilities on top of our core infrastructure, with substantial opportunity to shape the developer experience and platform architecture over the coming months. You'll translate complex payment and compliance systems into elegant developer-facing abstractions, establishing patterns and standards that will scale with our ecosystem.\n\nThis role works in close partnership with:\nOur Head of Developer Experience (DevX), who focuses on developer enablement, tooling, and ecosystem growth\nPayments and Compliance Product Managers, who own underlying financial and regulatory capabilities\nEngineering leadership across platform and payments squads\nYou'll align deeply across teams while maintaining clear ownership of the external platform surface.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nOwn the vision, roadmap, and execution for ZBD's developer-facing platform surfaces (APIs, SDKs, auth, webhooks, sandbox).\nDefine and evolve REST APIs and SDKs used across mobile, PC, console, and web, with particular attention to gaming-specific integration patterns and requirements.\nEstablish API lifecycle management practices including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation strategy, and reliability targets.\nPartner closely with the Head of DevX to ensure documentation, onboarding flows, dashboards, and tooling reflect best-in-class developer standards. Write documentation yourself when it's the fastest path to clarity.\nCollaborate with Payments and Compliance PMs to translate complex financial flows (authorization, settlement, reconciliation, KYC, payouts, wallet balances) into intuitive, compliant developer primitives that work within regulatory constraints.\nWork deeply with engineering on API contracts (OpenAPI), authentication models, idempotency, event-driven architecture, and SDK design across platforms including Unity, Unreal, and native mobile/console environments.\nEngage directly with game developers and partners throughout the sales and onboarding cycle. Join prospect conversations to understand how developers are building their in-game economies, gather real-time feedback on API design decisions, and identify integration friction points before they become blockers.\nRun pilot programs with early partners, collecting structured feedback and iterating rapidly based on real-world integration experiences.\nDefine and track platform health metrics including adoption, activation, time-to-first-transaction, integration success rate, API reliability, and revenue impact.\nRoll up your sleeves regularly, whether that's reviewing OpenAPI specs, debugging integration issues with partners, refining SDK interfaces, or troubleshooting authentication flows.\nNavigate complex stakeholder landscapes, building consensus across engineering, compliance, legal, sales, and fellow PMs while maintaining momentum on platform deliverables.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n6+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of external, developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or platforms used by third-party developers.\nDeep experience defining API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), authentication systems (OAuth, API keys), idempotency models, and webhooks.\nDirect experience building or scaling high-volume transaction systems in fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure environments.\nUnderstanding of regulatory and compliance requirements for financial products (money transmission, KYC/AML, or similar frameworks).\nExperience collaborating across multiple PMs in a pod or platform structure, with proven ability to influence without direct authority.\nStrong technical fluency and the ability to partner credibly with senior engineers on architecture and implementation decisions.\nComfort engaging directly with customers and prospects. You can hold your own in technical conversations with developers, translate their feedback into product requirements, and adapt your approach based on what you learn.\nDemonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with commercial outcomes and regulatory constraints.\nPassion for developer experience. You believe documentation and tooling are product surfaces, not afterthoughts.\nComfort operating in ambiguity and building new capabilities in fast-moving, regulated environments.\nWhat Makes You Stand Out\nYou've integrated payment or monetization systems directly into games, or deeply understand in-game economy design.\nYou've built or maintained SDKs used by third-party developers at scale, particularly for gaming platforms (Unity, Unreal, native mobile, or console).\nYou've worked with gaming-specific payment flows such as microtransactions, reward systems, or real-money gaming considerations.\nYou have experience with Bitcoin, Lightning Network, or cryptocurrency payment systems.\nYou've owned API reliability targets, SLAs, or uptime metrics for production systems.\nYou've navigated console certification processes or worked within platform-specific constraints (Apple, Google, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo).\nYou've worked in regulated industries and understand how to ship quickly while maintaining compliance guardrails.\n\nAbout ZBD\nWe power real economies in virtual worlds. With ZBD, gaming becomes a meaningful economic activity and game devs get a new playground for weaving money into the worlds they create.","company":"Zbd","rawCompany":"zbd","city":"Remote","state":"OR","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T11:11:48.440Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Product Manager, Developer Platform","description":"Description\n\nWe’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to own ZBD’s Developer Platform — the external interface between our financial infrastructure and the developers who build on top of it.\n\nYou will be responsible for our external-facing APIs, SDKs, authentication systems, webhooks, sandbox environments, and core developer tooling. Your mandate is to ensure developers can integrate payments and rewards into their games quickly, reliably, and with minimal friction.\n\nThis is a pivotal moment. You'll be building significant new platform capabilities on top of our core infrastructure, with substantial opportunity to shape the developer experience and platform architecture over the coming months. You'll translate complex payment and compliance systems into elegant developer-facing abstractions, establishing patterns and standards that will scale with our ecosystem.\n\nThis role works in close partnership with:\nOur Head of Developer Experience (DevX), who focuses on developer enablement, tooling, and ecosystem growth\nPayments and Compliance Product Managers, who own underlying financial and regulatory capabilities\nEngineering leadership across platform and payments squads\nYou'll align deeply across teams while maintaining clear ownership of the external platform surface.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nOwn the vision, roadmap, and execution for ZBD's developer-facing platform surfaces (APIs, SDKs, auth, webhooks, sandbox).\nDefine and evolve REST APIs and SDKs used across mobile, PC, console, and web, with particular attention to gaming-specific integration patterns and requirements.\nEstablish API lifecycle management practices including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation strategy, and reliability targets.\nPartner closely with the Head of DevX to ensure documentation, onboarding flows, dashboards, and tooling reflect best-in-class developer standards. 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Join prospect conversations to understand how developers are building their in-game economies, gather real-time feedback on API design decisions, and identify integration friction points before they become blockers.\nRun pilot programs with early partners, collecting structured feedback and iterating rapidly based on real-world integration experiences.\nDefine and track platform health metrics including adoption, activation, time-to-first-transaction, integration success rate, API reliability, and revenue impact.\nRoll up your sleeves regularly, whether that's reviewing OpenAPI specs, debugging integration issues with partners, refining SDK interfaces, or troubleshooting authentication flows.\nNavigate complex stakeholder landscapes, building consensus across engineering, compliance, legal, sales, and fellow PMs while maintaining momentum on platform deliverables.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n6+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of external, developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or platforms used by third-party developers.\nDeep experience defining API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), authentication systems (OAuth, API keys), idempotency models, and webhooks.\nDirect experience building or scaling high-volume transaction systems in fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure environments.\nUnderstanding of regulatory and compliance requirements for financial products (money transmission, KYC/AML, or similar frameworks).\nExperience collaborating across multiple PMs in a pod or platform structure, with proven ability to influence without direct authority.\nStrong technical fluency and the ability to partner credibly with senior engineers on architecture and implementation decisions.\nComfort engaging directly with customers and prospects. 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