Director of Platform Product Management

Anaplan is the planning cloud for Sales, Finance, Operations, and HR. We built our platform from the ground up to empower you to plan, collaborate, and act in real time. Anaplan enables you to deploy easy-to-use applications to solve complex planning challenges across your organization. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts, and course correct on the fly.

Director, Platform Product Management role is accountable for driving strategy and roadmap for the Anaplan Cloud Platform. Anaplan is looking for a technical and passionate product leader to help drive the evolution of our platform. This is an amazing opportunity to get involved early in a highly visible, large scale cloud company that is changing the way large enterprises approach decision-making and planning.

* Lead product management function for cloud platform, infrastructure and APIs for the Anaplan platform * Develop and execute on vision, strategy, long-term and short-term roadmaps for specific areas of the Anaplan platform. * Develop and maintain deep relationships with Architects, Engineering leaders, CTO office, and other product leaders across the company. * Understand deeply the objectives, metrics and operations of TechOps function, and create and build roadmaps to reflect objectives of greater customer satisfaction and long-term scalability of the platform. * Maintain up to date knowledge of the technology trends in the industry as well as competitor products. * Meet regularly with customers and other internal groups such as customer success, customer operations and other groups across the company to understand the needs and requirements for the platform. * Use Agile methodology to continuously improve every aspect of our product development process within the wider business context * Write requirements, stories and product definitions and prioritize initiatives * Ensure execution of backlogs, from inception and validation with business sponsors, through to deployment production and measurement * Define metrics for success, including platform performance, uptime, NPS and work with product leadership to determine accountability for meeting strategic goals

* 5+ years managing products (experience in a SaaS/Cloud environment a must) * Minimum of 3 years’ experience working on technical platform, infrastructure, or API areas. * Experience developing and detailing software product requirements, building implementation plans, and leading teams to deliver * Hands-on experience in direct people management * Experience running a dynamic product prioritization process and knowledgeable of best practice release processes * Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and build consensus across a broad range of backgrounds, organizational levels and personalities