Lead Product Manager, API Platform

Pylon, NYC or Palo Alto (in office)

The role

Pylon turns mortgage origination into a single API, so the API is the product. Every loan our customers originate, every integration they build, and every agent that talks to Pylon goes through it.

We’re hiring a Lead PM to own the Pylon API. That includes the domain model, the API design, and the experience of every developer who builds on it. Our API is built on GraphQL, and the schema is where all of mortgage’s complexity has to turn into something a developer can understand in an afternoon.

You’ll be deciding how mortgage gets represented in software, for our customers and for the industry. If you get it right, building a mortgage product on Pylon should feel as easy as building payments on Stripe.

What you need

About you

You have strong opinions and you’ll defend them, including about naming, which matters more than most people think. We argue about decisions a lot here, and we’ll ask you to explain your thinking and stand behind it. We also expect you to change your mind when someone shows you you’re wrong.
You’re ruthless about priorities. Every customer wants a new field. You know when to say yes, when to say no, and when what they really need is a better abstraction.
You’re comfortable in a heavily regulated market. Compliance is non-negotiable for us. We work with regulators to push the industry forward and get better outcomes for borrowers. We play by the rules, and we play to win.
You care a lot about the developers building on Pylon and the borrowers they serve, and you hold a high bar for them. We’ll do whatever it takes to make our customers successful.
You default to software over manual work. One of our guiding principles is that anything in the backend mortgage process done by a human is a bug. We can’t automate everything right away, so when we need a temporary workaround, you flag it, write it down, and push for the real fix.
You’re good with people. You’ll work with internal engineering teams, engineers at our customers, and partners and vendors, and you know how to build real relationships and get results through them.
You have a lot of ideas. You notice things that could be better about the product and the team, and we’ll give you room to act on them.
You’re willing to get into the weeds. You can learn mortgage well enough to model it more cleanly than people who’ve spent their careers in it.

Requirements

7+ years in software, including at least 4 as a PM on API or developer platform products. An engineering background is a plus
You’ve owned and scaled public APIs that developers actually like using, at real scale
You’re excellent at domain modeling and have taken messy, complicated real-world domains and turned them into clean entities, relationships, and state machines
You know GraphQL deeply, including schema design, nullability, connection-based pagination, error modeling, federation, and how to evolve and deprecate a schema
You know API design beyond GraphQL too, like REST, webhooks and events, idempotency, OAuth and scoped API keys, and rate limiting
You write code and are comfortable committing to a production codebase, prototyping against the API, and going deep on architecture with engineers
You’ve built developer experience, like docs, SDKs, sandboxes, and developer portals
You’ve built 0-1 enterprise software in a regulated industry
You can write SQL and define metrics for API adoption and developer experience
Nice to have: mortgage or fintech infrastructure experience, or familiarity with industry standards like MISMO

We don’t expect you to be a mortgage expert on day 1. Over time, though, you’ll need to become one of the most trusted mortgage experts on the team to do this job well.

Must live in or be willing to relocate to Palo Alto (CA) or New York City.

Lead Product Manager, API Platform

The role

Lead Product Manager, API Platform

The role

What you will do

What you need

About you

Requirements

About Pylon

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