Director, Platform Engineering (Product Management)

About the role

Appian is looking for a senior leader who can blend product management expertise with deep technical insight to drive the strategy for its cloud platform. The role reports to the Head of Product for the Platform Engineering Strategic Business Unit and will shape the roadmap for a suite of cloud‑native infrastructure services that power Appian Cloud.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee initiation, planning, execution, and rollout of strategic initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Maintain short‑term and long‑term feature backlogs aligned with product and corporate vision.
• Facilitate cross‑functional alignment on strategy, roadmap, investments, and messaging.
• Build relationships with business stakeholders and keep them informed of feature progress and scope changes.
• Coach product managers on balancing functional and non‑functional enhancements and system improvements.

Required profile

• Strong technical background, often as a former software architect or developer.
• Proven people‑management skills guiding product managers to success.
• Passion for backend and infrastructure technologies powering cloud‑based enterprise software.

Required skills

• Kubernetes and cloud‑native technologies.
• AWS services such as EKS, ECR, transit gateways, WAF, Global Accelerator.
• Networking, cross‑VPC connectivity, and zero‑trust security implementations.
• Data persistence, object storage, event streaming platforms, and multi‑tenant shared services.
• Scalability, performance, security, observability, and reliability of distributed systems.

What we offer

• Comprehensive health coverage, Employee Assistance Program, life and disability insurance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program, retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, and family‑forming benefits.
• Training and development programs, mentorship, leadership programs, and affinity groups promoting inclusion.