Product Management Director - Deployment Platform

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Director-level Individual Contributor in Product Management to lead the strategy, development, and execution of our deployment and operational platform for Connetic, the next generation payment innovation from ACI Worldwide.

This role blends product leadership, DevOps strategy, and cloud-first deployment expertise, with responsibility for enabling secure, scalable, cloud-native and hybrid deployments across on-premises, private cloud, and SaaS environments.

You will define how mission-critical payment software is delivered, deployed, upgraded, and operated globally, across multi-cloud and enterprise environments, working across engineering, global markets, SRE, and customer-facing teams.

This is a hands-on strategic role requiring deep technical fluency in cloud platforms, distributed systems, and deployment automation, and the ability to influence without direct authority.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Portfolio Ownership


* Drive the product definition, roadmap, and solution plans for deployment platforms, cloud infrastructure capabilities, and operational tooling.


* Develop and maintain multi-year (3-5 year) product strategy and annual operating plans for DevOps, cloud deployment, and platform capabilities.


* Define business cases and investment priorities based on market analysis, cloud adoption trends, and customer needs across SaaS and self-managed environments.

DevOps, Cloud & Platform


* Own product vision for DevOps and cloud-enabled deployment tooling, including:
+ Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps models
+ CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration across environments
+ Environment provisioning across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-prem
+ Configuration management and secrets management
+ Observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting)


* Define standards for cloud-native architectures, including containerization (Kubernetes), service mesh, and microservices deployment patterns.


* Establish automation frameworks to enable consistent, repeatable deployments across SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem environments.


* Drive improvements in deployment velocity, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

On-Prem, SaaS & Cloud Deployment Strategy


* Define and deliver deployment models supporting:
+ Cloud-native SaaS platforms (multi-tenant and single-tenant)
+ Hybrid and multi-cloud deployments
+ Private cloud and on-premise (including air-gapped environments)


* Design for portability across cloud providers and customer-managed infrastructure.


* Own versioning, upgrade strategies, patching, blue/green and canary releases, and backward compatibility across environments.


* Ensure architectures support:
+ High availability and fault tolerance
+ Disaster recovery and geo-redundancy
+ Elastic scalabili...