Senior Product Manager (Technical)
Greenwich, CT - Hybrid · Short Hills, NJ - Hybrid · New York City, NY - Hybrid · USD 115,000-155,000 · 4+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Greenwich, CT - Hybrid · Short Hills, NJ - Hybrid · New York City, NY - Hybrid
- Salary
- USD 115,000-155,000
About the role
- Zinnia is hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager for a highly visible, client-facing role to lead the API build, client onboarding, and implementation.
- You will define and own technical requirements including API design, data models, event-driven integrations, and traffic management policies.
- This is a high-impact, hands-on position where you will serve as the trusted technical voice for clients and collaborate closely with engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Write clear, testable product requirements, API specifications (OpenAPI), and acceptance criteria, while driving the SDLC across design, build, test, release, and post-release validation.
- Own and execute client onboarding and implementation end to end, from technical kickoff and integration design through UAT, production readiness, and go-live.
- Serve as the senior technical subject matter expert and point of contact for client engineering, architecture, and security teams.
- Partner with Sales and Pre-Sales as the technical lead on API-led opportunities, including discovery, solution design, live demos, and RFP and security questionnaire responses.
- Partner with architects and engineering leads on platform architecture, service boundaries, and scalability trade-offs, defining and reviewing data models and canonical schemas.
- Define requirements for event-driven integrations, including Kafka topic and event schema design, webhook payloads, retries, and signing.
- Define API traffic management and access policies, including rate limiting, throttling, quotas, IP whitelisting, and OAuth 2.0 and API key provisioning.
- Own requirements for reference data structures, the reference data engine (RDE), and integrations with document management systems.
- Dive deep with engineering on production issues and client escalations to identify root cause, drive resolution, and keep clients informed.
- Drive execution across large, geographically distributed engineering and QA teams, establishing mechanisms like release readiness reviews and reporting on release predictability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical product management, solutions architecture, or technical implementation experience, including 4+ years on API or platform products.
- Experience writing detailed product requirements and owning the SDLC end to end for enterprise APIs.
- Experience in a client-facing role leading enterprise onboarding and implementations from kickoff through production go-live.
- Experience with REST API design, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, API gateways, rate limiting, throttling, and IP whitelisting.
- Experience with software architecture and data modeling for distributed systems.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB), including writing SQL.
- Experience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and webhooks.
- Experience with reference data structures and document management systems.
- Experience driving execution with large, geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in life insurance, annuities, or financial services
- Familiarity with insurance data standards such as ACORD
- Experience with API gateways and developer portals (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and observability tools (e.g., Datadog)
- Experience with schema registries, Avro or JSON Schema, and change data capture (CDC)
- Experience with AWS-based architectures
- Prior hands-on software engineering or architecture experience
- Ability to write concisely and present complex technical topics to both engineers and senior executives
Benefits
- Health/dental insurance
- Parental leave
- 401(k)
- Incentive/bonus opportunity
- Tuition reimbursement
Workplace
- Greenwich, CT - Hybrid
- Short Hills, NJ - Hybrid
- New York City, NY - Hybrid
Skills
- OpenAPI
- REST API
- OAuth 2.0
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Kafka
- AWS
- Kong
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- Apigee
- Datadog
- Avro
