Lead Partner Engineer at Postman

San Francisco, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, SoftwareIndustries

Requirements

  • Expert on Postman, including core product, platform capabilities and API, technical architecture, and business impact
  • Passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, and developer experience/success
  • Experience as primary technical point of contact for key partners (customers, ISVs, SIs), guiding through onboarding, integration, design reviews, troubleshooting, and support
  • Ability to lead partners from high-level architecture to code implementation for smooth technical integrations
  • Skilled in creating technical content (webinars, docs, blogs) and developing tools, sample apps/code, best practices
  • Experience presenting solutions, technologies, proposals, and best practices at meetings, executive reviews, conferences, workshops, events
  • Ability to partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, analytics, partnerships, GTM, customer success, operations teams
  • Capability to foster partner communities, implement feedback mechanisms, run beta programs, aggregate feedback, and inform product roadmaps
  • Strong relationship-building with key partners and senior executives
  • Excellent communication and evangelism skills for strategy, internally and externally
  • Strategic thinker able to define partner engineering strategy, frameworks, programs, processes, culture, and success metrics (satisfaction, adoption, engagement, performance, usage, support efficiency)
  • Hands-on individual contributor able to drive execution excellence

Responsibilities

  • Define partner engineering strategy
  • Seed and scale onboarding, support, and scaling of the Postman Ecosystem
  • Drive developer and app success across customers, partners, and Postman developers
  • Act as primary technical point of contact for key partners, guiding through onboarding, integration, design reviews, troubleshooting, and support
  • Lead partners through high-level architecture to code implementation for technical integrations
  • Create technical content (webinars, docs, blogs) and develop tools, sample apps/code, best practices for use cases
  • Present solutions, technologies, proposals, best practices at partner meetings, executive reviews, conferences, workshops, events
  • Partner cross-functionally across Postman and partner teams to execute partner plans, product launches, and drive developer success
  • Foster vibrant partner community and implement feedback mechanisms to improve satisfaction and scale success
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to run beta programs, improve platform, grow ecosystem
  • Aggregate feedback, explore strategic opportunities, inform product roadmap
  • Build relationships with key partners and senior executives
  • Communicate and evangelize strategy internally and externally
  • Define partner engineering strategy, frameworks, programs, processes, culture to scale operations
  • Define and move key success metrics for customers, partners, and Postman

Skills

APIs
Partner Engineering
Developer Experience
API Management
Cloud
AI
Ecosystem Building
Technical Leadership
Onboarding
Developer Relations

Postman

API development and collaboration platform

About Postman

Postman provides a platform for API development that helps developers and organizations design, test, document, and monitor APIs. The tools available on Postman enable teams to collaborate effectively, allowing them to share and manage APIs with ease. Users can access a variety of features through a subscription model, which includes different pricing tiers for individuals, small teams, and large enterprises, along with a free tier to attract new users. Postman has played a significant role in facilitating data exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic by offering API collections that provide real-time data for healthcare professionals, researchers, and government agencies. The company's goal is to streamline the API development process and enhance collaboration among development teams.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$422.2MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, HealthcareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance.
Dental Insurance.
Disability Insurance.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Life Insurance.
Mental Health Care.
Occupational Accident Insurance.

Risks

Rapid adoption of generative AI tools could increase competition for Postman.
Explosive API growth may challenge Postman's API management capabilities by 2025.
Data breaches due to exposed API secrets pose a significant security risk.

Differentiation

Postman offers a comprehensive API development environment for developers and enterprises.
The platform supports API-first development, automated testing, and developer onboarding.
Postman's subscription model caters to individual developers, small teams, and large enterprises.

Upsides

Postman's acquisition of Orbit enhances community engagement on the API Network.
Release of Postman v11 aligns with AI integration trends, boosting developer productivity.
Gartner predicts 80% of enterprises will use generative AI APIs by 2026.

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