Manager, Product Management, Mobile Payments
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Lead Product Manager
Appian Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: McLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesPrometheus
About the role
- Oversee the initiation, planning, execution, and rollout for strategic initiatives.
- Lead creation and ongoing maintenance of a multi-team, short-term and long-term feature backlog 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, and planned investments.
- Help identify and cultivate the next generation of product management leaders and coach product managers.
- 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.
- Oversee product strategy and backlog for foundational Appian Cloud infrastructure including AWS account and VPC topology, Kubernetes clusters, network mesh, edge web layer, governance, tooling, observability, and connectivity including a zero-trust connector.
- Report to the Head of Product for the Platform Engineering Strategic Business Unit and be accountable for the business impact of delivered features.
Requirements
- Strong technical background, likely as a former software architect or infrastructure engineer who later became a product manager.
- Passion for the backend and infrastructure technologies that power cloud-based enterprise software systems.
- Experience with cloud native technologies and Kubernetes.
- Experience delivering cloud infrastructure features built using AWS services such as EKS, ECR, transit gateways, WAFs, and Global Accelerator (or similar).
- Deep understanding of networking and cross-VPC connectivity and the security and compliance requirements that apply to such systems; experience with zero trust connectivity implementations preferred.
- Familiarity with Karpenter, Cilium, KNative, Keda, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Prometheus.
- Strong interest in scalability, performance, security, observability, and reliability of distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills; comfortable talking strategy with CxOs and details with developers.
- 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 and working with multiple product managers at various stages in their careers.
- Preferred Experience Level: 9+ years of product management experience.
Benefits
- Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training.
- Continuous learning: dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program.
- Growth Opportunities: leadership program for new and aspiring managers, Appian University department training, skills based training, and tuition reimbursement.
- Community: immersion into our community rooted in respect through 8 employee-led affinity groups.
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants (contact ReasonableAccommodations@appian.com).
- Equal opportunity employer; consideration without regard to protected characteristics.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud native technologiesKubernetesAWS servicesEKSECRtransit gatewaysWAFsGlobal Acceleratornetworkingzero trust connectivity
Soft skills
communication skillscoachingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingfeedback provisionprocess improvementteam leadershipalignment facilitationimpact mappingdelivery oversight