Sr. Staff Product Manager - Federation Core
ApolloPosted 3/19/2025
Sr. Staff Product Manager - Federation Core
Apollo
Job Location
Salary Range
200k - 253k USD / YEAR
Job Summary
We're seeking a Sr. Staff Product Manager to define capabilities and methods for integrating backend APIs into a unified API using GraphQL. As a key member of the Federation Core group, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide platform engineers with tools and controls to efficiently query their API ecosystem. With experience in developer platforms and tooling, you'll drive product vision and evolve Apollo's ability to provide API query planning insights across the development lifecycle. You'll work closely with industry-leading customers and build a roadmap for GraphOS capabilities. We offer competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, as well as flexible remote work options.
Job Description
Are you an experienced product manager excited to work with developer tools that help the biggest companies around the world connect and orchestrate their APIs with GraphQL? As a Product Manager at Apollo in the Federation Core group, you will be defining the capabilities and methods for how organizations integrate their various backend APIs into a single unified API that is easy and efficient to query.
In this position, we’re seeking an accomplished Product Manager with a highly technical acumen and understanding of API’s, query languages, and algorithms. As a specialized Product Manager working on the foundational library for API federation and query planning, you’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Design to provide platform engineers with the tools, capabilities, and controls they need to integrate their API ecosystem and efficiently and reliably query it.
So join us and help shape the future of GraphOS!
$199,750 - $252,625 a year
What you’ll do
-Define and drive Apollo’s vision for how APIs are federated and queried.
-Own and evolve Apollo’s ability to provide API query planning insights across the development lifecycle, from a developer’s IDE through to production, through common federation tooling.
-Build and evangelize a roadmap across internal and external stakeholders.
-Develop and validate new GraphOS capabilities directly with industry-leading customers, such as Paypal, Wayfair, Peloton, The New York Times, and many others.
About you
-You have successfully led product development lifecycles and technical product management, ideally with developer platforms and tooling or similar B2B products.
-You understand how to work back from the customer’s perspective to identify value and develop a clear product vision.
-You like learning and proactively keeping up with new developer trends by reading books, watching videos, taking classes, or doing something similar.You possess a strong entrepreneurial drive and leadership skills.
-You’re excited about GraphQL and modern developer tooling and are interested in helping push the industry forward.
Nice to have
Direct experience with GraphQL, API middleware, or scaled API platforms.
At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process. We are open to hiring these positions at a Staff Product Manager to Sr. Staff Product Management level, based on fit. The accompanied salary range covers these levels.
In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.
Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the United States or Canada.
Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.
E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.
