Product Operations Lead, Apollo
$170-198k
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API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
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API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-198k
Listed salary range applies to the US only, and may vary in other locations. Offers equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help developers and engineering teams build better software faster with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration, accelerating application development and delivering, better more cohesive experiences, and now extending that same approach to power AI agents and agentic applications.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Product Operations, Product Management, Management Consulting, or Strategy & Operations, with meaningful Product Ops experience in a B2B environment
- You know what great operating cadences look like and have a bias for continuous improvement to keep iterating on them
- Experience running analytical efforts for cross-functional projects that have influenced product or strategic direction
- You can form hypotheses from ambiguous data, design instrumentation to fill gaps, and translate insights for different audiences (PMs vs. executives vs. engineers)
- Track record of driving alignment and executing complex projects with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives
- Comfortable facilitating decisions in group settings and managing change, even when you're not the decision-maker
- Experience owning programs end-to-end and executing in environments with incomplete information
- Results-oriented with strong prioritization skills - you know when to build infrastructure vs. when to keep things scrappy
- Enthusiasm for building from the ground up rather than just maintaining existing processes
Desirable
- Consulting background combined with 1-2 years of Product Management experience - you understand both strategic frameworks and product execution
- Startup or founder experience - you've built things from scratch with limited resources
- Technical analytical skills like SQL or data modeling - you can dig into data yourself rather than waiting for analytics support
- Experience with developer platforms, API infrastructure, or B2B technical products - you'll ramp faster on Apollo's domain
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
What the job involves
- As our Product Operations Lead, you'll design, own, and drive the operational cadences that support our Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) teams
- You'll equip them with tools, practices, and insights, empowering them to make faster decisions and maximize the performance and impact of our products
- You’ll love the entrepreneurial, collaborative, and analytical aspects of this role - and will have company-wide visibility and impact as you build out a new muscle of operational
- Design and own PDE's operating rhythms and tooling - Build the cadences (roadmap reviews, product councils, launches), workflows, and tools that enable fast, effective decision-making across Product, Design, and Engineering
- Create visibility and minimize overhead - Invest in automation and self-serve data that gives the company insight into PDE execution and product performance, without making PMs write status updates
- Solve operational gaps that don't have clear owners - Identify and address coordination breakdowns, unclear decision-making processes, or strategic initiatives falling through the cracks between teams
- Scale best practices company-wide - Partner with operations leads across functions to level up coordination and execution beyond just PDE
- Tools we use:
- Claude/Cursor/Github/Omni
- Jira/Atlas/Confluence
- Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.)
- GCP
- GraphQL (though we sorta hoped you’d assumed that by now )
Our take
Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.
Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.
In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
126% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.4m
Company benefits
- Globally distributed company: No return-to-office for us. We believe in the strengths that come with being a globally distributed company. Our 220+ Apollonauts located in 10 countries and 13 time zones thrive on working from home, learning from each other, and avoiding long commutes and traffic jams (although that hike to the kitchen for snacks between meetings can be a real journey).
- Flexible Time Off (FTO): Whether it’s planning a vacation or taking some time to focus on your well-being, one thing matters to us: you have time to focus on you. Rest up, and make sure you share those travel pics when you get back. *For our UK and Canada teammates, we also offer "flexible time off in practice" which folds in your country-specific nuances so you may share the benefits of taking vacation that is restful, rejuvenating, and individualized for your needs.
- Full benefits package: We provide a variety of meaningful and competitive benefits based on whether you’re located in UK, Canada, or USA. When you go through the recruitment process, we’ll walk you through your country-specific package. No matter what life throws at you, rest assured that you and your family will be covered.
- Parental leave: Welcoming a new child is going to change your world, and we want to be here to support you when you need it. We offer leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, and a personal leave specialist to guide you through the process.
- Streamlined collaboration: Virtual “coffee chats”, tools that help us work as a distributed company, and a culture of documentation and global inclusivity ensure we stay connected and collaborate throughout the week.
- Company Kickoff: We believe in building meaningful connections with each and every Apollonaut. Once a year, we get the whole team together for our annual Company Kickoff where we learn, align, and most importantly, build relationships with each other. We can’t wait to see you at the next one!
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt DeBergalis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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