This isn't a feature factory PM role. It's a platform product role where you're balancing the needs of dozens of engineering teams, navigating enterprise architecture and information security requirements, managing cross-org dependencies, and making hard tradeoff calls with limited resources.
*We are open to remote candidates for this role
What You'll Do:
Product strategy and roadmap for the Golden Path platform (Kubernetes-based, multi-cloud, supporting hundreds of microservices across cloud providers).
Prioritization across competing demands - migrations, platform connectivity, multi-cloud buildout, developer experience improvements, and security/compliance requirements.
Stakeholder alignment with VP-level engineering leaders, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and program management.
The product narrative - weekly updates, tradeoff communication, escalation management, and decision documentation.
Product Discovery board management - every idea framed as a problem with a customer, impact, and measurable outcome.
What You'll Bring:
Proven platform product leadership. You've owned an internal developer platform, infrastructure product, or developer tools product at scale before - not as a supporting PM, but as the strategic owner. You've driven adoption across skeptical engineering teams, managed platform roadmaps with 20+ consuming teams, and made the hard prioritization calls when everything was on fire.
Deep technical fluency. You're comfortable in architecture discussions around Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD, cloud networking, database connectivity, and infrastructure-as-code. You've worked closely enough with infrastructure and platform engineers to earn their respect - not by writing code, but by understanding constraints well enough to make decisions they trust. When an architect says, "we can't do that because of IAM boundaries," you know what that means and can propose alternatives.
Executive-level communication and presence. You've been the person in the room with VPs and CTOs representing a platform organization. You know how to frame tradeoffs so leadership can make decisions, how to say no to a priority without creating enemies, and how to own a narrative across multiple stakeholder groups with competing interests. This isn't a skill you're developing - it's one you bring.
A track record of operating in complexity. You've juggled concurrent program migrations, multi-cloud strategies, security/compliance constraints, and cross-org dependencies before. You don't need someone to hand you a prioritized backlog - you build one, defend it, and adjust it when reality shifts.
Nice to Have:
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, or similar infrastructure tooling.
Direct experience with engineering patterns spanning APIs, cloud networking, data lake architectures, and AI agents and integrations built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Background in financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries where compliance and cybersecurity are embedded in every product decision.
Experience leading through organizational change - platform consolidation, team restructuring, or post-acquisition integration.
Why this role matters right now:
Golden Path is the backbone of how First American's engineering teams ship software. We're in the middle of a multi-cloud expansion, and standing up data platform connectivity - all while keeping the lights on for 50+ services in production. The platform is growing faster than our ability to manage it strategically, and we need someone who can own that problem end to end.
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
What We OfferBy choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.Skills Required
- Proven platform product leadership in an internal developer platform or infrastructure product
- Deep technical fluency in Kubernetes, IAM, and CI/CD
- Experience with executive-level communication
- Track record of operating in complex environments
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What We Do
First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies’ core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; title plant management services; title and other real property records and images; valuation products and services; home warranty products; property and casualty insurance; and banking, trust, and investment advisory services. First American Title Insurance Company provides comprehensive title insurance protection and professional settlement services for homebuyers and sellers, real estate agents and brokers, mortgage lenders, commercial property professionals, homebuilders and developers, title agencies and legal professionals to facilitate real estate purchases, construction, refinances or equity loans. First American's thorough title searches, title clearance and title insurance policies help to produce clear property titles and enable the efficient transfer of real estate. As one of the largest title insurance companies in the nation, First American offers title insurance and settlement services through its direct operations and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and internationally. First American Title Insurance Company traces its history to 1889 and is the largest subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF).
