Senior Product Manager (Platform Engineering, Cloud)

Here at Appian, our core values of Respect, Work to Impact, Ambition, and Constructive Dissent & Resolution define who we are. In short, this means we constantly seek to understand the best for our customers, we go beyond completion in our work, we strive for excellence with intensity, and we embrace candid communication. These values guide our actions and shape our culture every day. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team that's dedicated to accomplishing hard things.

This position is for you if you have experience with and a passion for the following: distributed messaging systems, high availability, dynamic scalability, and site reliability engineering.

What you'll do: Prioritize, define, and ensure success of product features for the messaging and orchestration layer for the Appian services framework at the roadmap level as well as functional specifications for each feature at the sprint level.

• Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, while taking customer feedback into account.
• Share ideas and receive feedback from technical teams on new features.
• Define how those features will work through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions
• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, execution, review, and release.
• Write detailed specification for the team and fellow product managers to review and provide feedback on.
• Ensure successful delivery of features to confirm the desired impact by tracking adoption/usage.
• Own features all the way through final documentation, go to market, prioritization of bugs and enhancements, and usage analysis.
• Help shepherd the team and department to a new model of continuous delivery of individual services from the current cadence-based release process.

• You understand the value of cutting edge infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes and are eager to help us use it to take our product to new heights.
• Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to draw clarity out of complex and ever-changing environments; ability to communicate the benefits and drawbacks of various technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Demonstrated technical background; an engineer at heart with an innate desire to make an impact.
• Exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about building great back-end features and capabilities.
• Proven ability to translate broad customer requirements around scalability and availability into a technical feature set that can be delivered incrementally.
• Experience with distributed systems is preferred.
• Most importantly, passionate about software and cloud-native architecture!

• Within your first few weeks of joining us, you will attend new hire orientation along with our 2-day engineering bootcamp to ensure you are set up for success
• Access to over 1,000+ Udemy course, along with dedicated learning time to focus on areas you specifically would like to focus on as a programmer
• An agile-led work environment where you will be challenged and your ideas will be heard

• Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.
• Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.
• Community: We'll immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led . These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social, educational, and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.