Senior Manager - API Business & Enablement Strategy

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

As a strategic leader of the API Business & Enablement teams, you will foster internal and external relationships with business partners. In doing so you will be responsible for helping them identify and harvest opportunities to expose their untapped data landscape through API’s. Once exposed you will be responsible for brokering conversations to connect B2B, B2C and B2B2C use cases that can benefit Verizon and major customers and developers around the world. In doing so, you will be enabling them within our marketplace thus exposing and monetizing our API’s and rich landscape of data. As a key communicator internally and externally you will be expected to bridge lines of communications and report back up to top management and executives.
Lead an Enterprise business and enablement team that owns end-to-end design and implementation of API exposure and business use cases

• Broker relationships across multiple internal lines of business and major external brands
• Assign top Solution Architects to work with customers for timely planning of API publication and subscription use
• Envision, evolve and communicate the business and enablement strategy and functionality
• Develop an API first strategy based on sound market, customer, and competitor insights
• Write well-articulated business use case requirements
• Gather and communicate business and customer requirements
• Interface with the API Platform, Portal and Security teams to assist in the evolution of our environments and practices
• Assist in building pathways to monetization of API’s through the rich use of our marketplace

Who You Are

• You’re an experienced technical business manager of who believes your success is measured by the success of your team which is ultimately measured by the success of your customers
• You have experience in identifying and selling B2B, B2C and B2B2C use cases to internal and external clients that will bridge the gap to business success
• You believe in providing useful abstractions, clear customer SLOs, and meaningful KPIs
• You’re confident in asking difficult questions and challenging your team and dependencies while being highly collaborative and open to input

This role will be based out of one of the locations listed in the posting. In this role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager

What we’re looking for...

You'll Need to have

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
• Six or more years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated ability to grow business strategy teams
• Prior experience with securing platform, application, database and cloud infrastructure
• In depth knowledge of how API’s work and how they can assist in connecting data with business use cases to drive growth and innovation
• Consistent track record of shaping and executing a multi-year business strategy

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relevant discipline.
• Experience in large big data environments within large IT enterprise wide environments.
• Experience and knowledge in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud computing environments
• Experience with Data security and Governance
• Experience with data architecture, modeling and integration.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated history of mentoring and growing employees with varying levels of experience and skills
• Care deeply about building diverse teams
• Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns.
• Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations
• Knowledge of SRE practices and principles to build resilient systems and to provide business continuity.

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