About Planning Center

Planning Center, established in 2006, has grown to support over 90,000 churches worldwide. As an independent company, we pride ourselves on being debt-free with no outside investors. Churches use our tools to communicate and connect with their congregations, organize information, and coordinate events. We’re committed to building great products that solve real problems using web and mobile products.

Our team enjoys the flexibility of remote work, utilizing tools like Asana, Slack, Notion, and Zoom for collaboration. We gather three times a year at our main office in Carlsbad, CA, fostering our work relationships.

About the Work

We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead our developer platform — the APIs, docs, and add‑on ecosystem that let churches and partners extend Planning Center. You’ll shape how developers build and launch integrations that create real value for our customers.

What you’ll do

• Own the roadmap for internal API tooling and the overall third party developer experience—how they discover, learn, and build with our APIs.
• Influence product teams' API roadmaps to drive platform consistency and empower third-party developers to extend Planning Center.
• Partner with Engineering to ship high-quality improvements to API tooling, documentation, and developer-facing features.
• Evolve the add‑on ecosystem: develop partnerships with third parties building add-ons in Planning Center.
• Define success metrics for developer experience and ecosystem health, and report progress clearly.
• Build relationships with third‑party developers and internal product teams to unlock integrations that matter for churches.

About you

• Experience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or platforms.
• Comfortable discussing REST, JSON API, OAuth, and integration patterns with engineers and exploring business goals with partners.
• Bias toward clarity in ambiguous spaces. You can define success, choose scope, and measure impact.
• Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering, and third party teams. You communicate simply and listen well.

Who We Look For

The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our Core Values:

• Engage with Humility - We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly—regardless of skill level, expertise, or place on the org chart.
• Invest in our team - We give our time and energy to our team’s success—improving collaboration with effective communication, making space for diverse perspectives, sharing knowledge, and asking questions.
• Do Our Best Work - We aspire to do our best possible work—continually looking for ways to improve the quality of our individual output and contribute to our team's overall success and growth.
• Focus on Customer Impact - We advocate for our customer’s best interests in our decision-making—we can trace the goal of every project back to creating positive value for our customers.
• Think Holistically, Work Iteratively - We focus on taking practical steps towards our goals with an awareness of the broader context—thinking big, working small.

We believe the strongest teams comprise people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating that diversity here at Planning Center. We're building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do your best work.

The Hiring Process

During the hiring process, you’ll have a chance to interact with several members of our team. We strongly encourage you to bring any questions to anybody you interact with. You’re interviewing us as much as we’re interviewing you.

Applications will be accepted until 9AM PT on December 8, 2025

Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.

• Step one: Apply with your resume and complete the application questions without the use of AI.
• Step two: A Blind Screen with our Talent Acquisition Specialist.
• Step three: Complete a take-home project designed to showcase your strategic thinking, creativity, and execution skills.
• Step four: Interview over Zoom with several members of our team. This time will be used to learn more about your experience, review your take-home assignment, and give you space to ask any questions you may have.
• Step five: Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer.

**We’re beginning interviews right away, but the person hired for this role will start in January 2026. This timeline gives both you and our team space for a thoughtful transition.

Requirements

1. Reside in the United States
2. Eligible to work in the United States (we are currently unable to offer employment to those with H-1B visas)
3. Be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
4. At least 2 years of experience in a technical role (engineering or product).
5. Experience designing product solutions in web software and/or mobile apps.
6. Solid understanding of API design and great developer experiences.
7. Comfortable creating basic wireframes, logic diagrams, user flows, and detailed specifications for features of varying complexity.
8. Ability to present and demo solutions to a larger audience.
9. Strong project prioritization skills, with a customer-first approach.

Benefits

We love our team. It’s one of the core pillars we work off of every day, which is why we take care of you as best we can. Here are a few highlights, but you can find all our benefits here.

Get paid: We pay competitive rates no matter where you live, contribute to your 401k, provide a charitable giving match of up to $2,000 a year, have a generous allowance for continued education, and offer a co-working stipend.

The annual salary range for this position is $111,000 - $194,000.

Be healthy: Generous paid sick time and vacation time, $200 a month for physical fitness and mental health, 95% medical & 100% dental premium health coverage. These are just a few of the benefits we offer — to learn more, check out the link above.

Get out: Paid Fridays off year-round starting in 2026, a month-long sabbatical every five years, one week off between Christmas & New Year, one week off a year to serve with a globally-focused non-profit, and two weeks paid vacation a year increasing to three over time.