Senior/Staff Product Manager – Infrastructure APIs & Developer Ecosystem

About the role

Partly is building the AI infrastructure layer for the global automotive parts industry. As the Senior/Staff Product Manager for Infrastructure APIs & Developer Ecosystem, you will own the transactional backbone (Partly Rails) and the external API program that enables customers and third‑party systems to integrate with confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Own Partly Rails, the end‑to‑end transactional job flow, ensuring reliability, scalability and a compelling value proposition.
• Define and evolve the external API program, including governance, versioning policy and integration standards.
• Build and grow the developer portal, documentation, sandbox environments and tooling to accelerate third‑party integration.
• Lead the developer ecosystem by identifying, activating and retaining integration partners.
• Shape the agentic API evolution to support AI‑driven autonomous consumption.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience owning platform or infrastructure products with clear adoption metrics.
• Proven track record designing and managing developer‑facing APIs, versioning and governance.
• Experience building or scaling a developer ecosystem or partner program.
• Ability to prototype rapidly using AI‑assisted or LLM‑assisted development tools.
• Strong analytical instincts to define metrics, build dashboards and act on data without waiting for a data team.

Required skills

• API design, versioning and lifecycle management.
• Developer experience discipline – onboarding, documentation, tooling.
• Understanding of AI‑assisted development and agentic API consumption.

What we offer

• Relocation assistance for candidates moving to New Zealand.
• Travel and accommodation covered for quarterly “Season Openers” team events.