Product Manager II - Cloud Infrastructure

Overview

Product Manager II responsible for the direction and roadmap of a component of the Appian Cloud data plane, focused on cloud-native persistence and messaging. The role oversees backend subsystems that support reliable, high-performance, scalable operations for Appian Cloud customer sites.

What you'll do

• Work on an agile team to prioritize, define, and ensure the success of infrastructure and managed services features for a high-level strategic roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, taking customer feedback into account.
• Define how infrastructure features will work through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions and architecture diagrams.
• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, execution, and review.
• Write detailed specifications for the team and fellow product managers to review and provide feedback on.
• Track adoption and usage of new features, applying appropriate metrics and analytics to evaluate whether they are having the desired impact.
• Own features through final documentation, go-to-market, prioritization of bugs, and usage analysis.

What you'll need

• A strong technical background and an understanding of key concepts related to availability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
• Understanding of the value of cutting-edge infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes and passion for cloud-native architecture.
• Ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to draw clarity out of complex environments and communicate technical benefits to various audiences.
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS services, including EC2, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, EBS, EFS, and DynamoDB, to support mission-critical systems.
• Experience or interest in the scalability and reliability of distributed persistence and messaging systems.
• A belief in the principles of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India, at the DLF Downtown Chennai office.
• Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week.