Product Manager, Developer Platform

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. And make it easier for customers to shop and pay at their favorite businesses. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

Square is known for building amazing 1st party products and experiences. For many sellers, Square’s 1st party products provide them with all they need to do their job. As we’ve grown our seller base, we see more and more customers who need components or entire experiences customized to meet those needs. To enable sellers and developers to build these particular solutions, we are aggressively expanding Square’s Commerce Platform to encompass all aspects of running a business: from taking a payment to managing inventory to building your own custom web site and many other solutions. 

We’re looking for a Product Manager that is excited to build the world’s most elegant and differentiated Commerce Platform. You will be responsible for working with many of our largest sellers and developers to solve their commerce needs today and beyond. You’ll work closely with our leadership team and across the organization to drive the strategy and tactics of our platform investments as well as future investments we need to make in the changing landscape of commerce.

You will:

  • Work cross-functionally with our product teams, *many* other engineering teams, partner developers, evangelists, and community leads to design and implement Square’s global developer platform

  • Work with developers and partners on driving the scope of our App Marketplace investments and the needs of our Partners and 3rd party Developers

  • Build our Developer Platform, for use by millions of Square Merchants and a key strategic asset of Square

  • Own every facet of Square’s APIs, including developer SDKs, the Square developer portal, and API documentation. The team is very small, and you will be a key early hire

  • Write user narratives to describe the ideal customer experience

  • Define, document, and communicate objectives, requirements and constraints for product initiatives and releases

  • Communicate development status and document progress toward milestones

  • Prioritize and sequence product initiatives against a mandate

  • Perform market research and analysis

  • Have the opportunity to travel to conferences and speak, as well as talk to our platform's third party developers for feedback

Qualifications

You have:

  • Innate curiosity and a desire to be responsible for all aspects of building Square's developer platform in a small, highly focused, and rapidly growing team

  • An understanding of and curiosity in creating a well thought out platform which is growing at substantial month over month rates

  • Experience building products which developers can leverage to build specific solutions and experiences

  • A track record of pursuing self directed side projects, research, or open source projects.

  • Great communication and writing skills

Even better:

  • A track record of pursuing self directed side projects, research, startups, advising, and product leadership

  • You must deeply enjoy leading and influencing teams shipping production software rapidly

Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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