Sr. Product Manager, Data Platform

About this role

Description
At AppFolio, we’re building an AI-Native Performance Platform. This is our unified system that transforms data into real performance for our customers. Central to that mission is our Data Streaming Platform: the foundation that powers every insight, automation, and intelligent experience across our products.


We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the teams responsible for our data pipelines, data query infrastructure, and data engineering capabilities. This is a highly technical and strategic role. You’ll define how AppFolio collects, transforms, stores, and serves data to power products like Realm-X, AI Agents - Performers, Performance Insights, and Query APIs. You’ll partner with platform engineering, architecture, and data science to deliver the scalable, trusted, and performant data foundation that makes our AI-native experiences possible.


What You’ll Do


Define the Data Platform Vision: Build and evolve the strategy for AppFolio’s next-generation data architecture, spanning ingestion pipelines, transformation frameworks, data quality, and query services.


Enable Intelligent Systems: Power capabilities across Realm-X, Flows, Performers, and Performance Insights by ensuring unified, high-quality, and real-time data access.


Empower Builders: Partner with internal development teams to deliver self-service data tooling, documentation, and APIs that reduce cognitive load and accelerate innovation.


Drive Data Quality and Governance: Establish consistent standards for lineage, observability, and accuracy to ensure confidence in every decision powered by AppFolio product data.


Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Product leaders to align priorities and deliver platform capabilities that scale.


Measure Impact: Define and track key outcomes such as data freshness, latency, and adoption of data APIs and frameworks, using these insights to continuo...