Lead Product Manager Developer Tools Employee

Appian

Employee

TELECOMMUTE – US National

7/28/22

Job Description

Title: Lead Product Manager (Developer Tools)

Remote (United States)

Here at Appian, we’re passionate about technology. We love making it, and we love using it. Joining Appian Engineering will provide you with the opportunity to learn in an environment that values cross-functional collaboration and is committed to personal and professional growth. We want to revolutionize the way people work, and in doing so, we develop the Appian platform to be simple so our customers can thrive.

As a Lead Product Manager, you will drive the vision for how we can best continuously improve the productivity of our engineering department. You will help guide our department towards the ideal CI/CD workflow, enabling us to continuously merge and deploy high quality code fast. You will use a data driven approach to ensure we have a degree of confidence that our code not only works as intended, but is maintainable, scalable, and achieves the intended impact. You will guide our Product Owners, provide executive-level communication, and work directly with development teams to assess and prioritize the current and upcoming needs of the organization, specifically what we can do next to help achieve our mission, and own the prioritized product backlog to ensure your team delivers high-quality software with each and every iteration.

This position will be specifically internally focused — with strong customer implications — responsible for the core development, testing, and deployment tools and services on which our engineering department operates. This also includes systems we use to make sure we have necessary visibility to ensure high confidence in our product quality and engineering’s productivity. This position is for you if you have experience with and a passion for the following: automated testing systems, build tools, data warehousing and visualization, tools and services that enable CI/CD – anything that helps create a more efficient and productive engineering department.

Appian is headquartered in the McLean, Virginia area, and we are supportive of both Remote and Hybrid work environments.

To be successful in this role, you need to:

Be an experienced product manager

Get excited about the thought of helping an already strong engineering department get even better by providing them tools, services, and insights

See the value in providing the right insights to the right people so they can make more effective, data-driven decisions

Understand the value of cutting edge infrastructure technologies, CI/CD workflows, and automated testing strategies and are eager to help us improve the productivity of our engineering department

Have strong communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills and enjoy working closely with your end users, in our case the engineers in the department right around us

Be a trailblazer and change maker with experience with behavior change approaches; you like driving users to do what is best for them, making them more productive and efficient

Be exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about building great product features and experiences while working closely with a team of developers

Most importantly, you are passionate about developing scalable, maintainable, and impactful software!

What you’ll do:

Lead and advise the Product Owners for the teams in the Engineering Productivity group, as well as provide hands…

Software Development , Project Management , Computer & IT

US National