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Jeremy Glassenberg

Jeremy Glassenberg

API Product Strategy Consultant at API Strategist

San Francisco, CA

Experienced Product leader of over 16 years with a proven track record of building APIs and growing developer ecosystems at successful startups such as Box and Tradeshift. I've managed and expanded communities of tens of thousands of developers, executed high-profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google, and led application marketplaces that were key to their companies' growth and retention. While focused on Product Management and APIs, I also manage developer relation programs and application marketplaces. As a consultant, I support companies in launching new products and APIs, to grow developer communities, and establish healthy marketplaces. I also provide guidance in applying Product Management principles for organizations establishing new Product teams, and provide legal support as an Expert Witness in IP cases in which APIs have been highly relevant. I also advise and mentor startups and accelerators, such as Alchemist, Techstars, Heavybit, and Salesforce Accelerate. Specialties include but are not limited to: Product Management, Product Strategy, APIs, Integrations, Developer Relations, and Artificial Intelligence.

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How technical should one be if they are interested in being a Developer Product Manager?

Jeremy Glassenberg
Jeremy Glassenberg

API Strategist API Product Strategy Consultant | Formerly Box, Tradeshift, DocuSign, Deserve, Edmodo, Pinn.ai • 1y

I assume by "Developer Product Manager" you mean a Product Manager who is focused on developer-facing Products, like APIs or infrastructure tools. I've worked in the API space for many years, and have trained people from a variety of backgrounds to become PMs in the API space. I find that these roles should require more technical knowledge than the average PM. In general, PMs need to have some skill in design, some skill in business, and some technical skills, in order to be effective (design a ...Read More

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For API products, how do you push back against engineers who believe they know what to build because they "are" the target user?

Jeremy Glassenberg
Jeremy Glassenberg

API Strategist API Product Strategy Consultant | Formerly Box, Tradeshift, DocuSign, Deserve, Edmodo, Pinn.ai • 1y

I encountered this and similar scenarios with numerous teams, with successes and lessons learned. As others echo, successful public APIs (I’ll define success as achieving adoption externally with positive feedback) have APIs designed based on validated use cases for external developers (commonly termed  “Design-Driven APIs”), rather than publishing what’s used internally. Sometimes it's a simple matter of explaining Design-Driven API principles with examples, but often it's more complicated. To ...Read More

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