Product Manager, OpenRouter Connect

Role overview Build and lead the product for a platform that lets partner companies offer multiple AI models to their own customers. As the first product manager for this offering, you will shape its strategy and roadmap, turn partner needs into reusable capabilities, and coordinate delivery across engineering, design, partnerships, and go-to-market teams.

Responsibilities - Own prioritization and requirements for partner onboarding, integrations, provisioning APIs, customer-level controls, usage visibility, and billing. - Select target partner segments, define positioning, and set goals for partner and end-user activation, engagement, and retention. - Work directly with prospective and active partners to understand needs and help their engineers complete integrations. - Make scope and sequencing decisions with engineering and design, balancing delivery speed, quality, and developer experience. - Build reusable product abstractions instead of relying on one-off partner integrations. - Identify capabilities missing from the core platform and drive their development so they can serve the broader customer base. - Work with partnerships and finance teams on commercial terms and a sustainable business model.

Requirements - At least five years of product management experience, including building platform or API products used by other companies. - Experience with multi-tenant product challenges such as identity, policy, and billing. - A track record of taking a product from early design partners through general availability. - Strong technical judgment: able to review API specifications, use SDKs, interpret product and observability metrics, and assess integrations and authentication models. - Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, speaking with partners, writing clear specifications, and iterating on shipped products.

Nice to have - Experience at a developer platform, AI infrastructure, or model operations company, or building an embedded or OEM infrastructure product. - Familiarity with enterprise access, budget, and data-loss-prevention controls; tenant isolation, delegated administration, end-user identity, or per-tenant policy. - Experience with usage-based billing, metering, invoicing, reporting, or revenue sharing. - Familiarity with AI model and inference providers.