API Product Manager

Our direct client is seeking an API Product Manager to join their team.This is a 6 month plus Contract to Hire opportunity

• Create clear and defined Epics and Lean Business Cases that address the business requirements and support the product vision, strategy and roadmap
• Create clear and defined features: Accountable for quality and performance of features and Responsible for functional acceptance of the feature
• Collaborate effectively at a senior level with business, technical teams and customers to analyze and evaluate cross train dependencies for features/capabilities
• Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry, specially NDC and LCC.
• Assess emerging products and competitors to measure their potential value or threat to the company and its products, as well as make recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage.
• Accountable for the implementation delivery of NDC airline content through our air content platform and out to our agency customers via the points of sale
• Work with delivery launch teams to enable a formalized Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy.
• Responsible for working in concert with the Product Marketing team on general market sensing, defining the target customer, what problems they have and the needs the product will address, developing understanding of how the product measures up to competition, and what makes it unique.
• Accountable for tracking and reporting on status and metrics; forecasting and monitoring the product TCO and product development/management activities against the agreed plan, managing and reporting potential overruns and the performance against the agreed KPIs, KR and the proposed ROI.
• Define and maintain metrics to manage and improve NDC adoption to grow product usage and satisfaction