Senior Manager-WPD

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. At Appian, we’re passionate about technology—we love making it, and we love using it. Joining Appian Engineering offers you the opportunity to learn in an environment that prizes cross-functional collaboration and is deeply committed to your professional growth. We aim to revolutionize the way people work by building a platform so intuitive that our customers can truly thrive. In the Senior Manager of Software Development role, you will provide technical leadership for a specific product area while directly driving the professional development of the engineers on your team. Key Responsibilities: The ideal candidate will manage development teams, oversee architecture decisions, and ensure scalable, high-quality delivery aligned with business objectives. This leader is expected to guide software engineers through solving ambiguous and complex problems. They will champion an AI-first approach and bring deep experience in migrating and modernizing legacy applications using cloud-native, modular architectures and emerging technologies. We are looking for someone with an established background in delivering highly scalable systems and a strong operational track record while working across multiple teams. This role provides the autonomy and ownership needed to innovate and solve the industry's most difficult problems. Leadership & Team Management Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent: Lead and mentor a team of developers, architects, and analysts. Set very high standards for the team and in hiring talent. Manage end-to-end

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Own the Identity and Access Management product roadmap and deliver enterprise-grade authentication features that secure every connection between Appian and the enterprise. ABOUT THE TEAM The IAM Product team is on a mission to secure every identity, authentication flow, and access point that connects Appian to the enterprise. This team operates with high autonomy and directly influences how global enterprises trust and deploy AI-Powered Process Automation at scale. Your work will define how millions of users authenticate securely across mission-critical workflows. THE OPPORTUNITY As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, identity security has become the frontline of platform trust. This role exists because Appian is scaling its authentication and authorization capabilities to meet zero trust demands from the world's most security-conscious organizations. You will shape how the platform handles federated identity, modern protocols, and seamless user experiences in highly regulated environments. WHAT YOU'LL DO Lead the end-to-end IAM product roadmap, defining priorities that balance enterprise security requirements with developer and end-user experience Partner with Engineering to evaluate, design, and enhance authentication and authorization capabilities including native authentication and support for SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, and federated identity frameworks Execute discovery and requirements gathering with enterprise customers to understand identity provider integrations, compliance needs, and zero trust adoption patterns

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Transform complex technical challenges into innovative, powerful solutions and own the lifecycle of core platform capabilities powering AI automation for the world's largest enterprises. ABOUT THE TEAM The Appian Product Management function is responsible for the creation, refinement, and scaling of products and services that power our global platform. Operating at the intersection of business strategy and cutting-edge engineering, our team transforms complex technical challenges into innovative, powerful solutions. We build the mission-critical core capabilities that enable AI-Powered Process Automation for the world’s most regulated and sophisticated enterprises and governments. THE OPPORTUNITY Why should an ambitious product professional join Appian right now? Our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to manage the complete product lifecycle within a high-velocity, collaborative environment. You will not just be managing a backlog; you will be the strategic bridge connecting engineering, design, and go-to-market functions to bring innovative capabilities to life. WHAT YOU'LL DO Product Vision & Execution: Own the quarterly plan, prioritize the feature backlog, and lead the delivery for a major product area. Backlog & Roadmap Alignment: Prioritize the sp

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. This position is based at our office in Chennai, India. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. 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-systems—including 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 an

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Project Manager (Value & Delivery) to help us understand, measure and evidence the impact of AI across the organisation. This role sits at the centre of WPP's Enterprise AI adoption and measurement capability. You'll own the data, reporting and analytics that enable senior leaders to understand how AI is being adopted, where value is being created and what actions are needed to accelerate impact. You'll report to the Programme Manager (Value & Delivery). We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical and data modelling expertise with a de

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Programme Manager (Value & Delivery) to help us understand, measure and evidence the impact of AI across the organisation. This role sits at the centre of WPP's Enterprise AI adoption and measurement capability. You'll own the data, reporting and analytics that enable senior leaders to understand how AI is being adopted, where value is being created and what actions are needed to accelerate impact. We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical and data modelling expertise with a delivery mindset. You'll be responsible for building trusted ex