Product Manager II

Appian; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Appian is seeking a Product Manager to drive the cloud infrastructure roadmap for the data plane powering Appian Cloud customer sites. You will own the persistence and messaging layer, guiding back-end subsystems that power scalable, reliable platform services.

You will work with engineers and stakeholders to define architecture, prioritize features, and craft detailed specifications. This role emphasizes strategic thinking, cloud-native practices, and clear communication across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background with understanding of availability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
• Strategic thinking with ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear communicator able to explain technical benefits to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and define infrastructure features on an agile team roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on product vision and strategy considering customer feedback.
• Define how infrastructure features will work through design sessions with engineers.
• Manage release and sprint backlog through planning and grooming.
• Write detailed specifications for team review and feedback.
• Track adoption and usage of new features with metrics and analytics.
• Own features from development through documentation, GTM, bug prioritization, and usage analysis.

Skills

Technical background

Cloud-native

Strategic thinking

Clear communication

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

You will be the product manager working closely with the team whose mission is to strengthen and optimize site infrastructure by delivering essential upgrades, resource efficiency, and scalable solutions. You will be responsible for the direction and roadmap of a component of the Appian Cloud data plane that ensures reliable, high-performance operations for all Appian Cloud customer sites

This role is specifically focused on the cloud-native persistence and messaging layer. You will oversee the backend sub-systemsincluding technologies like S3 and Redis—that power the platform's internal data plane and core services. This component of the software is not directly user-facing but has strong implications on the scalability and reliability requirements our customers expect

What you will be doing:

• Prioritize and Define: Work on an agile team to prioritize, define, and ensure the success of infrastructure and managed services features for a high-level strategic roadmap
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy, while taking customer feedback into account
• Technical Discussions: Define how infrastructure features will work through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions and architecture diagrams
• Backlog Management: Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, execution, and review.
• Specification Writing: Write detailed specifications for the team and fellow product managers to review and provide feedback on.
• Impact Analysis: Track adoption and usage of new features, applying appropriate metrics and analytics to evaluate whether they are having the desired impact
• Ownership: Own features all the way through final documentation, go-to-market, prioritization of bugs, and usage analysis

About you:

• Technical at Heart: You have a strong technical background and an understanding of key concepts related to availability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
• Cloud-Native Enthusiast: You understand the value of cutting-edge infrastructure technologies like Kubernetes and are passionate about cloud-native architecture.
• Strategic Thinker: You are a problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear Communicator: You can draw clarity out of complex environments and communicate technical benefits to various audiences

Nice to have:

• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, EBS, EFS, DynamoDB) to support mission-critical systems.
• Persistence Domain Knowledge: Experience or interest in the scalability and reliability of distributed persistence and messaging systems.
• DevOps Mindset: A believer in the principles of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.
• Education: BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field