Director - Platform Product Management - API & Connectivity

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential! The Opportunity "As Director of Platform Product Management, API & Connectivity you will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Software Platform’s API ecosystem and integrations infrastructure, enabling seamless integrations for internal teams and external partners. You will ensure APIs are developer-friendly, secure, scalable, and aligned with business goals, partnering with engineering, security, and product teams to drive adoption and platform extensibility. You will own the end-to-end API product lifecycle, including design, documentation, governance, versioning, and monetization strategies. This role focuses on delivering exceptional developer experience, high-performance connectivity, and robust security/compliance while supporting business growth through ecosystem partnerships and integrations. Success is measured by API adoption, uptime, developer satisfaction, and revenue from partner integrations." - Platform Management - Vice President What You’ll Contribute Define and own the multi-year product vision and roadmap for API platforms, gateways, and connectivity services, aligned with company strategy and market trends. Design API specifications, authentication, rate limiting, and lifecycle management (versioning, deprecation) to balance developer velocity and security. Drive developer experience excellence: create portals, SDKs, interactive docs, sandboxes, and self-service onboarding to accelerate partner and internal adoption. Define platform integration patterns and ecosystem/marketplace integrations that enable seamless connectivity across internal and external systems. Partner with engineering to build scalable, observable API infrastructure. Collaborate with security, compliance, sales, and partnerships to govern API access, ensure regulatory adherence, and enable go-to-market for API-powered products. Establish KPIs such as API uptime, usage growth, developer NPS, error rates, and integration revenue; use data to iterate and report to executives. Conduct developer research, run hackathons, and build feedback loops to identify pain points and opportunities for new connectivity capabilities. Influence platform architecture for extensibility; evaluate build vs. buy for API management tools. What We’re Seeking 10-15 years in product management, with 5+ years owning API platforms, developer platforms, or integrations in SaaS, fintech, or enterprise software. Deep understanding of API design and systems. Proven track record launching and scaling APIs: high adoption, low latency, and secure ecosystems in production environments. Experience with API lifecycle management, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility. Technical fluency in API standards, protocols, auth/security, and observability tools. Strong analytical skills to model adoption metrics, performance tradeoffs, and business impact from integrations. Executive influence: partners with leaders across engineering, architecture, and GTM leaders to drive platform investments and adoption. Experience with API monetization, partner ecosystems, or marketplace strategies. Background in event-driven architectures, webhooks, or real-time connectivity. Familiarity with AI/ML integrations via APIs or developer tools for LLMs/agents. Bachelor's /Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field. Our Offer to You An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others. The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences. Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so. An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie. The targeted base pay range for this role is: $140,000 to $220,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.   #LI-BR1 #LI-Remote Why Make a Move to FICO? At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more. FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide: •    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders. •    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems. •    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score. Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks! Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply. Information submitted with your application is subject to the FICO Privacy policy at https://www.fico.com/en/privacy-policy