Director, Product Management - Zeta Developer Platform (San Francisco) Job at Ze
Zeta Global, San Francisco, CA, US
Director, Product Management - Zeta Developer Platform
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is an AIpowered marketing cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence and trillions of consumer signals to help marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform powered by one of the industrys largest proprietary databases and AI.
To unlock the full potential of this AIpowered ecosystem, we are building a nextgeneration developer platform and SDK that enable developers and increasingly AI agents to build applications rapidly and safely. We are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the developer platform, including the SDK, developer tooling, capability fabric, and the broader ecosystem that supports internal teams, partners, integrators, and future AIdriven builders.
What You Will Lead
1. Developer Platform & SDK Strategy
You will define and drive the vision for a worldclass developer experience, including the AI application SDK, CLI, scaffolding, templates, developer workflows, local development tools, testing frameworks, telemetry, debugging, versioning, deployment, and changemanagement systems. Your mandate: create a fast, intuitive, stable, and delightful experience for developers building on ZMP.
- AI application SDK
- CLI, scaffolding, templates, and developer workflows
- Local development tools, testing frameworks, telemetry, and debugging
- Versioning, deployment, and changemanagement systems
2. API & Modular Capability Fabric
You will own the foundational API, Gateway, and capability model that powers all applications and agents, defining the capability vocabulary developers and AI agents use to build modular applications.
- Core data and identity capabilities
- Intelligence and inference primitives
- Activation, workflows, and orchestration capabilities
- Crossapplication integration patterns
- Predictable, secure applicationlevel contracts
3. Developer Ecosystem & Community Leadership
You will build and scale the developer ecosystem by owning documentation and learning hubs, example apps, templates, reference architectures, partner and integrator enablement, developer certification programs, hackathons, builder events, and community engagement.
- Documentation and developer learning hubs
- Example apps, templates, and reference architectures
- Partner and integrator enablement
- Developer certification programs
- Hackathons, builder events, and community engagement
4. AIAugmented Development & Model Context Protocol Integration
Partnering with Athena AI teams, you will help define how LLMs read and reason about application primitives, generate code, operate safely within developer tooling, and validate and optimize app behavior through structured contexts. You will establish the Model Context Protocol layers that allow AI to participate directly in building and modifying applications.
- LLMs read and reason about application primitives
- LLMs generate application code, templates, or modules
- LLMs operate safely within developer tooling
- LLMs validate and optimize app behavior through structured contexts
5. Developer Governance & Reliability Standards
You will drive the standards that ensure consistency and integrity across the ecosystem, including API versioning and lifecycle strategy, SDK release cadences and quality bars, security, privacy, isolation boundaries, observability, performance baselines, reliability guarantees, and tooling for debugging, monitoring, and issue resolution.
- API versioning and lifecycle strategy
- SDK release cadences and quality bars
- Security, privacy, and isolation boundaries
- Observability, performance baselines, reliability guarantees
- Tooling for debugging, monitoring, and issue resolution
6. CrossFunctional Leadership
You will work closely with engineering, design systems, AI research, platform architecture, and security leaders to build a cohesive developer platform that empowers both human developers and AI agents.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of Product Management with deep experience in developer tools, SDKs, APIs, or ecosystem platforms
- Strong technical grounding with modern frameworks, cloudnative development, and secure software architecture
- Experience driving adoption and growth of developer ecosystems
- Passion for simplifying complex systems for developers
- Understanding of AIassisted or agentic development workflows
- Exceptional crossfunctional leadership and communication skills
Why This Role Matters
This role defines the platform, tools, and ecosystem that will empower thousands of developersand Athena itselfto build highimpact, AInative enterprise applications. You will shape the developer foundation for Zetas Impossible Products.
Benefits & Perks
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance
Salary Range
The salary range for this role is $190,000 $210,000, depending on location and experience.
People & Culture at Zeta
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individuals sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Were committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: