At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the vision for our API and integrations, driving innovation and developer experience.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on data and market intelligence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on security and governance.
- Why this job: Shape the future of data access and work with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in API product ownership and strong technical fluency required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Own the product.
Define the vision and roadmap for Euromonitor's API and MCP ecosystem—deciding which data domains and endpoints to expose and in what sequence, aligned to the Passport Reimagined relaunch.
Run the operating rhythm with Engineering scrum teams: backlog prioritisation, user stories, acceptance criteria, trade‑offs.
- Champion developer experience.
Treat developers and AI agents as first‑class customers.
Own documentation, SDKs, the developer sandbox, authentication and onboarding.
Drive measurable adoption—time‑to‑first‑successful‑call, active integrations, query volume and retention.
- Govern the data access layer.
APIs and MCP servers are a critical control point for how Euromonitor data leaves the building.
Partner with Information Security on authentication (OAuth 2.1, SAML/OIDC), rate limiting, entitlement enforcement and audit logging.
Zero critical data‑exposure incidents is the target.
- Shape the commercial model.
Work with Commercial, Finance and Legal to define how API and MCP access is packaged and monetised.
Build the usage‑analytics infrastructure and deliver a quarterly ecosystem scorecard to the executive team.
Requirements
- API & Platform
- Product
Ownership: Proven experience owning the roadmap and backlog for API, data or platform products, ideally where APIs serve external partners and integrations as well as internal teams.
- Technical
Fluency: Strong working understanding of REST/Graph QL APIs, authentication standards (OAuth 2.1, SAML/OIDC), webhooks, SDKs and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP); able to engage credibly with engineers and architects and translate business needs into technical requirements.
- AI & Agentic
- Ecosystem
Awareness: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol and the broader agentic landscape—including AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Chat GPT and Gemini—and how enterprises increasingly consume data through agents and tools.
- Data & Domain
Sensibility: Comfort working with large, structured datasets and an appreciation for data quality, lineage and entitlement, ideally within a subscription, Saa S, data, market‑intelligence or information‑services environment.
- Commercial Acumen: Experience shaping the packaging, pricing and monetisation of platform or data‑access capabilities, and reasoning about usage‑based models.
- Governance & Security
Mindset: A track record of partnering with security and engineering on access control, rate limiting and audit, balancing data protection with developer and partner friction.
- Communication & Stakeholder
Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences and to facilitate decisions across product, engineering, commercial and security.
- Agile Delivery: Experience operating as a product owner within agile/scrum teams; CSPO or an equivalent certification is an advantage.
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