Director of Product, Runtime

Are you an experienced product manager excited to work with developer tools that help the biggest companies around the world scale in production with GraphQL? As a Product Manager at Apollo, you’ll provide platform engineers with the tools, capabilities, and controls they need to deploy, operate, and scale Apollo’s Federated GraphQL runtime layer.

In this position, we’re seeking an accomplished Product Manager with a highly technical acumen and background in technical platform infrastructure. As a specialized Product Manager working with Apollo Router (the API Gateway that powers our solution, GraphOS), you’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Design to provide platform engineers with the tools, capabilities, and controls they need to deploy, operate, and scale Apollo’s Federated GraphQL runtime layer.

To date, the majority of Apollo’s customers run Apollo Router in their own data centers or hyperscale cloud accounts. Apollo is exploring improving our offering with a fully managed Apollo Router service, which would eliminate the need for customers to concern themselves with deploying and maintaining Apollo Router in their environments. You would be driving this strategy and the future of the Apollo Router strategy!

So join us and help shape the future of GraphOS!

• Define and drive Apollo’s vision and strategy for Apollo Router.
• Build and evangelize a roadmap across internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and validate new GraphOS capabilities directly with industry-leading customers, such as Netflix, Paypal, Wayfair, Peloton, The New York Times, and many others.
• Own and evolve Apollo’s user experience across cloud infrastructure.

• You have successfully led product development lifecycles and technical product management, ideally with developer platforms and infrastructure or similar B2B products.
• You have deep experience or knowledge working with cloud infrastructure.
• You understand how to work back from the customer’s perspective to identify value and develop a clear product vision.
• You are adept at reasoning technical tradeoffs in relation to the product vision you’ve built.
• 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.

• 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 Senior Staff Product Manager to Director of Product Manager 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.

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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.