Director, Platform Engineering (Product Management)
ChennaiFull-timeLead levelPosted open since apr 2026
Leadership DevOps and cloud role at Appian Corporation in Chennai.
About the role
Proven people management skills in guiding product managers to success. Passion for the backend and infrastructure technologies that power cloud-based enterprise software systems, including proprietary, open-source, and industry-standard components, especially those in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation landscape.
What you'll do
- Oversee the initiation, planning, execution, and rollout for strategic initiatives
- Lead the creation and ongoing maintenance of a multi-team, short-term and long-term feature backlogs strongly 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
What you need
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Networking
- Product strategy