Remote Senior Technical Product Manager Platform Services

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forges differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to own and evolve core platform and API capabilities that underpin our products and partner integrations. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, platform stakeholders, and downstream product teams, with primary responsibility for defining platform requirements, shaping API strategy, and ensuring our APIs scale reliably as usage and consumer demand grow. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, API‑literate, and comfortable working hands‑on with engineers to define roadmaps, requirements, and operating metrics. They understand how APIs are designed, documented, consumed, and governed, and they can translate diverse consumer needs into a coherent, prioritized platform strategy.

Location: This position is remote in Denver, CO. We intend to open an office in Denver and once we do, we will require hybrid attendance onsite at least 9 days each month.

Responsibilities:

Platform & API Product Leadership

Own the product vision and roadmap for core platform APIs and services, ensuring alignment with company strategy, engineering capacity, and partner needs.

Define and evolve API strategies that support current consumers while anticipating future scale, growth, and extensibility.

Lead quarterly and multi-year roadmap planning, balancing reliability, performance, developer experience, and delivery velocity.

API Requirements & Documentation

Define clear, testable API product requirements in partnership with engineering, including:

Functional behavior

Performance expectations

Backward compatibility standards

Ensure API documentation is accurate, complete, and usable for both internal and external consumers.

Participate in API design reviews, contributing to:

Endpoint design

Naming conventions

Data contracts

Reliability, Scale & Metrics

Partner with engineering to define and track:

SLAs (Service Level Agreements)

SLOs (Service Level Objectives)

Operational KPIs

Forecast and monitor API consumer growth, including:

Call volumes

Usage patterns (MoM, QoQ)

Identify scaling risks early and drive proactive product decisions.

Stakeholder & Consumer Enablement

Serve as the primary product interface for API consumers:

Internal product teams

Partners

External integrators

Gather and prioritize consumer needs based on real usage patterns.

Clearly communicate platform decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmap updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technical Execution & Collaboration

Partner closely with engineering, grounding decisions in:

System design

Data models

Technical constraints

Actively engage with APIs using tools like Postman or curl to:

Validate functionality

Support troubleshooting

Improve user experience

Contribute to domain modeling, including:

Entity relationships

Data ownership boundaries

Qualifications:

6+ years of product management experience, with strong ownership of technical platform or API-driven products

Proven experience managing API roadmaps in production environments

Hands-on experience with:

API requirements definition

Documentation review

API design tradeoffs

Experience defining and operationalizing SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics

Ability to forecast and manage API usage growth and scaling considerations

Experience working with diverse API consumer personas and prioritizing competing needs

Familiarity with API tools (e.g., Postman, curl)

Strong understanding of:

Domain modeling

Entity relationships

Data contracts

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)

Experience with regulated platforms (e.g., fintech, financial services, data-sensitive systems)

Experience working with:

Platform infrastructure

Identity and security systems

Data services teams

For residents of Denver, CO the annual salary range for this role is $135,000-$165,000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.