Lead Product Manager – Platform Engineering
| Company | Appian |
|---|---|
| Location | McLean, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Strong technical background, likely as a former software architect or developer who later became a product manager.
- Passion for the backend and infrastructure technologies that power cloud-based enterprise software systems, including proprietary, open-source, and industry-standard components.
- Experience with cloud native technologies and Kubernetes.
- Deep understanding of data persistence, object storage services, event streaming platforms, multi-tenant shared services, and the security and compliance requirements that apply to such systems with respect to enterprise customers.
- Experience delivering features built on stateful services such as Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, and S3.
- Strong interest in the scalability, performance, security, observability, and reliability of distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable talking high-level strategy with CxOs in the morning and feature details with developers in the afternoon.
- Consistent track record of overseeing the successful delivery of multiple features across several teams.
- Proficient in conducting impact mapping activities and measuring success criteria.
- Experience leading the product management processes at a software product company.
- Experience working with multiple product managers at various stages in their careers.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the initiation, planning, execution, and rollout for strategic initiatives.
- Lead the creation and ongoing maintenance of a multi-team, short-term and long-term feature backlogs strongly aligned to product and corporate vision.
- Initiate and facilitate conversations across business units and departments to reach alignment on strategy, roadmap, key investments and messaging.
- Build relationships with key business stakeholders, keeping them apprised of important features, critical scope changes, planned investments.
- Help identify and cultivate the next generation of product management leaders.
- Provide constructive feedback on feature specifications to ensure new feature delivery provides optimal impact.
- Coach product managers on balancing functional and non-functional enhancements and system improvements.
- Continuously enhance and improve the product management processes and techniques at Appian.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 9+ years of product management experience