Director, Digital Product Management - API Gateways, Managed File Transfer, Agentic Platforms - Enterprise Architecture

• Set the vision and product strategy and own the multi-year roadmap for API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI
• Anticipate customer needs, technology shifts, security expectations, and new integration patterns
• Guide secure interactions across APIs, events, files, services, partners, and AI agents
• Support cloud-native, event-driven, and zero-trust approaches
• Define product needs for agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication, orchestration, state management, observability, guardrails, and governance
• Apply AI and intelligent automation to improve onboarding, operations, self-service, anomaly detection, insights, workflows, and product decisions
• Modernize API and file-transfer experiences through improved discovery, onboarding, traffic management, identity, policy enforcement, secure data movement, encryption, automation, observability, and self-service
• Turn strategy into priorities and investments that improve adoption, reliability, speed, scalability, cost efficiency, developer and user experience, and risk reduction
• Partner with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, and Compliance to strengthen identity, data protection, access, reliability, agent governance, and regulatory compliance
• Work across Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Operations, AI/ML, Risk, Compliance, and business teams to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate outcomes
• Communicate priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior leaders and partners
• Coach product professionals and build strong product practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of product management, technology product leadership, platform strategy, or related experience, including ownership of complex products or platforms
• Proven ability to define and deliver multi-year product strategies, roadmaps, priorities, and outcomes
• Experience managing technology products that serve developers, applications, business teams, and partners at scale
• Sufficient proficiency to partner effectively with Engineering and Architecture on cloud, integration, security, reliability, automation, and platform modernization
• Experience using customer insights, product data, and business priorities to make decisions, simplify experiences, and improve adoption
• Exposure to AI, intelligent automation, or new technologies and ability to translate them into practical product opportunities
• Strong collaboration, influencing, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including aligning with diverse teams and communicating with senior leaders
• Experience working across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and business teams to deliver secure and resilient technology products
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing product professionals and applying Agile/Lean practices to improve delivery
• Preferred: Product leadership experience with API Gateway, API management, MFT, middleware, data movement, or developer platforms at scale
• Preferred: Knowledge of API management capabilities and technologies, including traffic control, authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, rate limiting, and platforms such as Apigee, Kong, or AWS API Gateway
• Preferred: Knowledge of secure file-transfer capabilities, including encryption, orchestration, and protocols such as SFTP, FTPS, S3, GCS, or AS2
• Preferred: Experience with agentic AI, autonomous workflows, agent-to-agent or agent-to-system communication, orchestration, guardrails, governance, and observability
• Preferred: Experience modernizing core platforms through cloud, automation, self-service, APIs, event-driven architecture, or zero-trust approaches
• Preferred: Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product management and technology leadership, with a focus on API Gateway, MFT, and Agentic AI. Proven ability to define multi-year product strategies, enhance secure interactions, and drive adoption through collaboration across diverse teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Management
• API Gateway Strategy
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• AI and Intelligent Automation
• Agile/Lean Practices

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Product Strategy
• Roadmap Development
• Integration Patterns
• Data Protection
• Orchestration
• Observability
• Governance
• Encryption
• Traffic Management
• Anomaly Detection

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Influencing

Industry Keywords

• Financial Services
• Regulatory Compliance
• Zero-Trust Approaches
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Secure File Transfer

Tools & Technologies

• Apigee
• Kong
• AWS API Gateway
• SFTP
• FTPS
• S3
• GCS
• Agentic AI
• Middleware