Senior Product Manager - Integration Platforms
$140.6k - $183.1k+ Bonus + Long-term incentive compensation awards
Senior
Bachelor's
Houston, TX, USA+1 moreMore locations: Chicago, IL, USA
In Person
ProductTechnical Product Management
No H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree is required.
- Six or more years of experience implementing API management and enterprise messaging technologies are required.
- Strong understanding of security considerations for messaging platforms, including data protection, encryption, and compliance with privacy regulations, is required.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and services supporting messaging infrastructure, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, is required.
- Experience building and managing scalable, reliable messaging systems and API gateways capable of high throughput and large numbers of concurrent connections and requests is required.
- Extensive experience defining solution architecture and complex integration architecture for large enterprise applications and systems is required.
- Hands-on experience developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating and prioritizing conflicting requirements with varied stakeholders in a fast-paced, changing environment is required.
- Ability to influence actions and coordinate activity across broad cross-border, cross-business-unit, and cross-functional stakeholder groups without direct authority is required.
- Experience managing strategic partners and vendors is required.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship is required.
- Successful completion of an interview is required to meet job qualifications.
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.
Responsibilities
- As product owner for integration platforms, provide architecture, engineering, and development expertise, tooling, capabilities, and guidance to enable reliable and secure API and event-driven development.
- Define and own the product backlog based on feature enhancements from the product roadmap and user community feedback, and lead execution.
- Develop and own the integration platforms product roadmap in alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
- Define and prioritize feature enhancements for enterprise capabilities and specific portfolio or business-unit needs.
- Develop a strategy for existing APIM and messaging solution migrations and define implementation plans spanning two to three years.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, platform engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to define enterprise API management and enterprise messaging vision, strategy, and execution plans.
- Define an operating model through a center of enablement for governing and managing internal and external APIs and events across the enterprise.
- Define the RACI for personas across enterprise architecture, middleware, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and cybersecurity teams.
- Measure performance against established KPIs and objectives, report results, and drive compliance.
- Engage QA teams to define and execute automated test plans.
- Develop event and API specification validation methodology and define the linting process for API product deployments.
- Set up a product support organization to manage product deployments and provide post-deployment support.
- Identify opportunities to automate deployments and configurations across multiple environments.
Desired Qualifications
- API management expertise, including Kong, API product enablement, and product diagnostics.
- Strong knowledge of REST API management, including migration from IBM DataPower to Kong on AWS, as well as SNS and SQS.
- Experience with enterprise platforms across engineering and operations, including integration layers and integration products connecting mainframe and application environments through API-driven solutions.
- Ability to develop product governance strategies and roadmap planning.
- Knowledge of Kong AI Gateway and security and access gateway capabilities.
- APIM expertise, including platform management and understanding how platforms are consumed by users and applications.
- Product ownership experience, including vendor management and delivery oversight.
About the company
United Airlines flies passengers and cargo across the United States and to destinations around the world, running a hub network that spans Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, Washington Dulles and Guam. It was a founding member of Star Alliance, the global airline partnership that links its routes and frequent-flyer benefits with carriers such as Lufthansa and Air Canada. Travelers book seats in economy, premium and Polaris business cabins, and United earns money from fares, bag and seat fees, cargo, and its MileagePlus loyalty program, which sells miles to card partners. United traces its roots to Varney Air Lines, which began flying airmail in 1926, and is based in Chicago.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
1926
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Premium travel fuels growth: premium revenue rose 16% in Q2 2026 as total revenue reached $17.7 billion.
- Hiring keeps expanding: United had 117,500 employees by June 2026, up 5.6% from a year earlier.
- Cabin crew pay is climbing: the flight attendant deal reached in March 2026 lifts base pay 31% on average.
What critics are saying
- Fuel prices squeeze profits: in July 2026, United expected nearly $6 billion more fuel expense for the year.
- Mechanics' labor fight drags on: United technicians rejected a Teamsters tentative deal 53.5% to 46.5% in September 2026.
- Newark growth was capped: the FAA limited the airport to 72 hourly flights from January through October 2026.
What makes United Airlines unique
- United gives loyalty members free fast WiFi: it targets Starlink on nearly 1,000 aircraft by end of 2026.
- Its Pacific reach extends past Hawaii: United runs a hub on Guam, a US island territory near Asia.
- United dominates New York's Newark airport: it runs about 70% of the flights there.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Time Off