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With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value - and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.\nWHO YOU ARE:\nWe are hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager for a highly visible, client-facing role. You'll lead the API build and client onboarding and implementation, from technical kickoff through production go-live, and partner with Sales and Pre-Sales to win and launch business.\nThis is a high-impact role for a hands-on product manager. You'll define and own the technical requirements, including API design, data models, event-driven integrations, and traffic management policies such as rate limiting and throttling. You'll bring the technical depth to shape architecture decisions with specificity, not just business cases. When integrations break, you'll dive deep with engineering to find the root cause and drive the fix.\nYou'll serve as the technical voice our clients can trust. You'll lead integration design sessions with client architects and technology leaders, turn their requirements into plans your engineering teams can execute, and see those plans through production. You'll write concisely and present complex technical topics with equal clarity to engineers and senior executives.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO:\nWrite clear, testable product requirements, API specifications (OpenAPI), and acceptance criteria. Drive the SDLC across design, build, test, release, and post-release validation.\nOwn and execute client onboarding and implementation end to end, from technical kickoff and integration design through UAT, production readiness, and go-live.\nServe as the senior technical subject matter expert and point of contact for client engineering, architecture, and security teams. Lead integration design sessions and translate client needs into executable plans.\nPartner with Sales and Pre-Sales as the technical lead on API-led opportunities, including discovery, solution design, live demos, and RFP and security questionnaire responses.\nPartner with architects and engineering leads on platform architecture, service boundaries, and scalability trade-offs. Define and review data models and canonical schemas across APIs, events, and persistence layers.\nDefine requirements for event-driven integrations, including Kafka topic and event schema design and webhook payloads, retries, and signing.\nDefine API traffic management and access policies, including rate limiting, throttling, quotas, IP whitelisting, and OAuth 2.0 and API key provisioning.\nOwn requirements for reference data structures, the reference data engine (RDE), and integrations with document management systems.\nDive deep with engineering on production issues and client escalations to identify root cause, drive resolution, and keep clients informed.\nDrive execution across large, geographically distributed engineering and QA teams. Establish mechanisms such as release readiness reviews and go/no-go gates, and report on release predictability, quality, and SLA adherence.\nBuild a repeatable onboarding playbook and continuously reduce time to go-live by turning recurring integration friction into product requirements and documentation.\nBring structured client and field feedback to product leadership to inform roadmap priorities.\nWHAT YOU'LL NEED:\n8+ years of technical product management, solutions architecture, or technical implementation experience, including 4+ years on API or platform products\nExperience writing detailed product requirements and owning the SDLC end to end for enterprise APIs\nExperience in a client-facing role leading enterprise onboarding and implementations from kickoff through production go-live\nExperience with REST API design, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, API gateways, rate limiting, throttling, and IP whitelisting\nExperience with software architecture and data modeling for distributed systems\nExperience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB), including writing SQL\nExperience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and webhooks\nExperience with reference data structures and document management systems\nExperience driving execution with large, geographically distributed engineering teams\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience\n BONUS POINTS:\nExperience in life insurance, annuities, or financial services\nFamiliarity with insurance data standards such as ACORD\nExperience with API gateways and developer portals (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and observability tools (e.g., Datadog)\nExperience with schema registries, Avro or JSON Schema, and change data capture (CDC)\nExperience with AWS-based architectures\nPrior hands-on software engineering or architecture experience\nAbility to write concisely and present complex technical topics to both engineers and senior executives\nWHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? \nZinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation with the goal of retaining and growing talented team members. The salary range for this role is a good faith estimate, it is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations. The salary range for this position is $115,000.00-$155,000. All offers presented to candidates are carefully reviewed to ensure fair, equitable pay by offering competitive salaries that align with the individual’s skills, education, experience, training, and geographic location. The range may vary above or below the stated amounts. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave,401(k), incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. We’re looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.\nNotice for California residents: Information about how we collect and use your personal information can be found here\nIf you are resident in California, the CCPA applies to you, find the link to the appropriate privacy notice here stating how we collect and use your data in line with CCPA.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7065,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Dental insurance","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Software & Embedded Finance","InsurTech"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T14:57:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":75,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.838,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:3","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":155000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zinnia-senior-product-manager-technical","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zinnia-senior-product-manager-technical.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T13:55:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20089,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":179719},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=179719"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fzinnia-senior-product-manager-technical"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fzinnia-senior-product-manager-technical"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fzinnia-senior-product-manager-technical"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/zinnia-senior-product-manager-technical\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fzinnia-senior-product-manager-technical"}]}