Director, Platform Product Management

KPMG LLP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG LLP is seeking a Director, Platform Product Management to lead the strategy and roadmaps for an AI-native platform across multiple domains. You will own capabilities, drive cross-functional alignment with engineering, and guide trade-offs, focusing on scalability, security, and regulatory standards.

You will influence platform adoption, coach teams in technical product-management practices, and partner with senior leaders to deliver measurable outcomes across the firm.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in product management for technical products or platforms, including owning a B2B or enterprise platform product end to end.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; Minimum of a GED is required; Minimum of twelve years of equivalent professional experience is required.
• Proven experience shaping platform strategy across complex products with adoption, reuse, delivery speed, cost, or customer outcomes; regulated environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Shape the multi-year platform strategy and integrated roadmaps for an AI-native platform across multiple domains.
• Own the capability inventory and assess reusable platform assets with engineering collaboration.
• Lead cross-domain recommendations for build, buy, partner, or harvest options.
• Advise engineering on cross-platform architecture, debt, and standards for scalability and security.
• Resolve major roadmap, dependency, reuse, and investment trade-offs using customer needs and platform value.
• Set adoption measures and drive internal evangelism and developer experience.

Skills

Platform strategy

APIs

Data models

AI & agent frameworks

Product lifecycle

Cross-functional leadership

Technical debt trade-offs

SLOs/NFRs

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

High school GED required

12+ years equivalent experience

Job description

KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Platform Product Management to join our Product organization.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the multi-year platform strategy and integrated roadmaps for an AI-native platform across multiple complex domains, aligning product, technology, and firm priorities
• Own the capability inventory and assessment across advisory and relevant functions, identifying recurring workflows, agents, data models, and integrations that should become reusable platform assets — and harvest the best of them into the shared platform in collaboration with our engineering organization
• Lead cross-domain recommendations on shared versus product-specific capabilities and build, buy, partner, or harvest options for senior product and technology leaders
• Advise engineering and architecture leaders on cross-platform architecture and integration decisions, prioritize technical debt, and ensure reusable capabilities meet scalability, reliability, security, regulatory, and technical standards
• Resolve major roadmap, dependency, reuse, and investment trade-offs across platform domains and product teams, using customer needs, technical feasibility, critical gaps, and platform value to guide decisions
• Set platform adoption and reuse measures, using build-time, cost, reliability, and product-team outcomes; Drive internal adoption through evangelism, documentation and developer experience; Coach professionals and advance technical product-management practices across teams
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in product management for technical products or platforms, including owning a B2B or enterprise platform product end to end
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; Minimum of a high school GED is required; Minimum of twelve years of equivalent professional experience is required
• Proven experience shaping platform strategy across complex technical products, platforms, or processes with results in platform adoption, cross product reuse, delivery speed, cost, or customer outcomes; experience in a complex or regulated environment is preferred
• Deep technical product management experience, including product lifecycle management, cross-product prioritization, analytics and experimentation, and defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) and service level objectives (SLOs). Demonstrated fluency in application programming interfaces (APIs), data models, AI and agent frameworks, integration patterns, and technical debt trade-off decisions
• Demonstrated daily use of AI across working practice, and platforms or products that have shipped or shaped where AI and agent frameworks were core rather than decorative; ability to guide shared versus product-specific capability decisions and develop build, buy, partner, or harvest recommendations
• Ability to operate with limited oversight, advise senior product and technology leaders, resolve complex cross-platform trade-offs, and coach professionals in leading technical product-management practices; preferred experience with developer or internal platforms (i.e. Agent orchestration, connector and integration architecture, or governed AI tooling) with audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls with application, data, or legacy modernization tooling
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)