• Define and own the API product vision, long-term strategy, and roadmap, aligning with company goals and customer integration needs. • Identify opportunities to expand our API offerings to support new financial products, data capabilities, and partnership integrations. • Implement industry best practices in API-first products to ensure we meet and exceed scale, security and compatibility standards. • Translate business and client integration requirements into detailed product requirements, user stories, and API specifications. • Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to design RESTful API endpoints, data models, versioning standards, authentication mechanisms, and integration workflows. • Prioritize API features, enhancements, and technical debt based on customer impact, business value, and engineering capacity. • Manage full lifecycle of API products including development, testing, documentation, versioning, deprecation, and migration planning. • Act as the primary product-facing technical liaison to client engineering teams, understanding integration requirements and helping them adopt our APIs successfully. • Lead discovery sessions with clients to map data flows, identify integration challenges, and propose API-based solutions. • Support technical onboarding by ensuring clear documentation, sample code, sandbox environments, SDKs, and troubleshooting guides. • Collaborate with implementation and support teams to resolve integration issues and optimize API usage. • Work closely with engineering leads to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, performance, and security of API products. • Partner with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure APIs meet regulatory requirements and follow best practices for data protection. • Collaborate with product marketing to articulate API capabilities, value propositions, and go-to-market messaging. • Establish and maintain API governance standards including versioning, documentation guidelines, lifecycle management, and design best practices. • Evaluate and integrate third-party technologies, APIs, and data services that enhance our product ecosystem. • Work with our engineering teams to ensure reliable API deployment pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and uptime performance. • Drive continuous improvements to API usability, developer experience, performance, and reliability.