Product Manager, API Platform
Lead the development of DigiCert's API Platform, focusing on key technologies such as Python, AWS, and Machine Learning to secure infrastructure, software, devices, and messages.
Who we are
DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com
Job summary
We are seeking Principal Platform Product Manager to define and lead DigiCert's API platform as both an internal engineering standard and externally differentiated developer product. This is a dual access role: inbound, you are the Platform authority who sets API structure, governance, guardrails and developer experience standards that all DigiCert product teams build to. Outbound, you are the thought leader who shapes the developer portal, external API experience and MCP strategy that customers, partners and 3rd party developers depend on. The person in this role will simultaneously be the most demanding internal API standard setter and the most credible external advocate for what a best-in-class digital trust API platform can be.
The Principal Platform Product Manager is responsible to understand market needs and trends, collaborate with product teams horizontally across the portfolio, manage the delivery and success of initiatives and supporting platform components in a data-driven manner, and drive priorities that maximize platform value to both internal and external customers. The Principal Platform Product Manager will lead strategic and tactical activities for large, broad, and highly complex initiatives that impact all portfolio solutions, not limited to Platform. This is a critical, highly visible role charged with the strategy and driving the execution of priority initiatives at all levels across the organization. Individuals in this role will also mentor lower-level contributors. This role has a seat on the Platform Product Management team.
What you will do
The Principal API Platform Product Manager serves as the primary owner of our API Platform initiative, with substantial contribution and stakes in several other Platform initiatives. In support of this mission, this role will conduct internal and external research: customer requirements, market requirements, competitive research, internal research and analysis to inform strategic direction and priorities. They will establish a backlog of portfolio requirements that express dependencies on the Platform and actively maintain a prioritized stack-ranking to inform their executable roadmap and regularly collaborate across the business to collect and socialize a comprehensive, accurate and detailed set of feature requirements for one or more major platform initiatives. As the thought leader for API Platform, this role is responsible for c
Posted June 7, 2026