Senior Product Manager - Asset Dispatch API (Fixed Term Contract)
HybridOxford, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Productise Aurora's asset dispatch capability into a coherent programmatic surface by deciding which problems are served programmatically, for whom, and in what sequence. Own API contract design jointly with engineering, run discovery on endpoint requests and integrations, and triangulate user needs with observed usage data. Manage lifecycle consequences by defining version guarantees, assessing consumer impact, and planning deprecation timelines while migrating existing workflows. Make Asset Dispatch compose within Aurora's wider programmatic offering and bring commercial, legal, and enablement constraints early to inform product direction. Support go-to-market teams with narratives and demos to drive adoption and retention. This fixed-term maternity cover role requires establishing evidence quickly and delivering concrete outcomes within the agreed period.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience taking a developer-facing API or platform product from initial discovery through to adoption by external users
- Ability to engage deeply in technical design discussions
- Comfortable as the first consumer of the product: testing endpoints, critiquing documentation, and evaluating contract proposals first-hand
- Demonstrated ability to identify stable, reusable concepts within varied user requests
- Ability to distinguish between core product capabilities and implementation details
- Experience investigating the underlying workflows and decision-making needs behind integration requests
- Ability to triangulate qualitative user feedback with quantitative usage data
- A track record of quickly mastering complex technical or economic domains (e.g., energy markets, financial modelling, or multi-dimensional datasets) to lead credible discovery with expert users
- Ability to sequence work based on value, evidence, and risk (technical and adoption), with a willingness to revisit roadmaps as new data emerges
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Prior exposure to energy market modelling, battery storage, or financial benchmarking products
- Experience optimising documentation, sandboxing, and onboarding flows to reduce time-to-first-call for developers
- Experience benchmarking against industry peers to identify parity gaps and differentiation opportunities
- Experience managing B2B product migrations or adoption programs for programmatic tools
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