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This role combines experienced product management leadership with the pivotal responsibilities of a Group Product Lead, offering an opportunity to shape the product strategy and the missions of several teams. You will oversee the product management execution working closely with the product managers for several cross-functional software engineering teams around the world. This position reports to the Head of Product for the Platform Engineering Strategic Business Unit, which is responsible for Appian Cloud offering.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
Strong technical background, likely as a former software architect or developer who later became a product manager
Proven people management skills in guiding product managers to success
Passion for the backend and infrastructure technologies that power cloud-based enterprise software systems, including proprietary, open-source, and industry-standard components, especially those in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation landscape
Experience with cloud native technologies and Kubernetes
An especially strong candidate will have previous exposure to the infrastructure behind Software-as-a-Service cloud product offerings
Understanding of networking and cross-VPC connectivity and the security and compliance requirements that apply to such systems with respect to enterprise customers
Previous experience with zero trust connectivity implementations would be a strong asset
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 cloud infrastructure features built using AWS services such as EKS, ECR, transit gateways, WAFs, and Global Accelerator (or similar offering from other cloud providers)
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
Nice to have:
Previous experience with zero trust connectivity implementations
An especially strong candidate will have previous exposure to the infrastructure behind Software-as-a-Service cloud product offerings
What we offer:
Health coverage
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support