Senior Business Technology Product Manager

Job Description Here at Appian, our core values of Respect, Work to Impact, Ambition, and Constructive Dissent & Resolution define who we are. In short, this means we constantly seek to understand the best for our customers, we go beyond completion in our work, we strive for excellence with intensity, and we embrace candid communication. These values guide our actions and shape our culture every day. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team that's dedicated to accomplishing hard things. Here at Appian, we're passionate about technology. We love making it, and we love using it. Joining Appian's Business Technology department 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 Senior Product Manager, you will be embedded on a small team of technical staff, interact with key business stakeholders, and own the prioritized product backlog to ensure your team delivers high-quality software with each and every iteration. This position will be specifically focused on Corporate Systems, including Workday and Greenhouse. You will drive the priority, design and development of new applications or features for existing applications. What you'll do: Prioritize, define, and ensure success of solution product features for various users at the roadmap/release level as well as functionalities within each feature at the sprint level (two weeks sprints). Create and maintain a product roadmap to communicate priorities and key deliverables. Prioritize what we should build and when by collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy. Share ideas and receive feedback on new features through presentations before a new release. Define how those features will work and look through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing. Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with the Scrum team. Write specifications for stakeholders to review and provide feedback on. Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories or Tasks in Jira with defined Acceptance Criteria at a level of detail that the development team can understand and implement. Coordinate rollout plan, user enablement, and follow up and analyzing adoption of features. Work with stakeholders during User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Approve work before it's delivered. Identify and recommend new features that provide impact to the business. Cultivate a deep understanding of your users and stakeholders. Be their advocate. Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert from a business perspective on the applications owned. Preferred Experience Level: 5+ years of experience, preferably in the Product Owner role in an Agile/Scrum environment. Experience with Workday and Greenhouse. Familiarity with Jira & Confluence. Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things. Ability to draw clarity out of complex and ever-changing environments; comfortable working through ambiguity. Strong communicator and facilitator. Ability to work to understand the interests of a variety of stakeholders to reach workable solutions. Ownership mentality. Possess the character to act with integrity for the best interests of the entire organization. Education: Bachelor's degree. Preferred concentration in technical or business areas. Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co‑worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination. Appian provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees in accordance with all applicable laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at View email address on click.appcast.io and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Appian's Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice. #J-18808-Ljbffr