RPI/Blurb needs to define and execute a platform integration strategy to connect creative design tools and commerce platforms, enabling creators to design anywhere and sell everywhere, thereby expanding reach and impact.
Requirements
- Proven success leading integration or platform architecture products across APIs, partner ecosystems, ecommerce, or design SaaS environments.
- Experience launching and scaling integrations with platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Canva, or Figma.
- Strong technical fluency in API design, ML/AI strategy, and platform interoperability.
- Leveraging RESTful APIs, MCP frameworks, and ML/AI-powered capabilities
- Enforce high standards for privacy, regulatory compliance, and robust platform reliability.
- Lead a culture of data-driven experimentation and iterative improvement (i.e., fail fast).
- Product, Agile, or ML/AI certifications (AIPMM, Pragmatic, MIT Sloan, etc.) a plus.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical strategy for seamless and scalable integrations between Blurb's creation tools and ecommerce channels-leveraging RESTful APIs, MCP frameworks, and ML/AI-powered capabilities to streamline content creation, automate design processes, and simplify distribution across multiple online stores and platforms.
- Define, communicate, and champion Blurb's platform integration vision and multi-year roadmap.
- Set priorities, evaluate opportunities, and align stakeholders around transformative goals for seamless multi-channel commerce and creative workflows.
- Exercise strong leadership across product, engineering, design, data science, business operations, and go-to-market teams.
- Build and nurture relationships to align on objectives, resolve strategic tradeoffs, and drive execution.
- Foster and expand partnerships at the executive level with leading industry platforms, ensuring mutual business value, shared technical standards, and world-class integrated user experiences.
- Set and track KPIs for adoption, partner success, channel sales, ML/AI impact, and user satisfaction.
Other
- Reporting directly to the VP of Product Design
- Collaborate closely with the executive team and cross-functional internal senior leaders and teams across Engineering, Data Science, Business Operations, and Marketing, as well as strategic external partners
- Relentlessly focus on creator and publisher needs to make designing and selling easier.
- Translate insights into intuitive integrations and workflows that eliminate friction, unlock creativity, and expand revenue opportunities across ecommerce channels.
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
