Director, Platform Product Management

About the role

KPMG is building a product organization designed to help transform decades of industry experience into innovative, software-powered businesses. Backed by the scale, resources, and market presence of a global network, this organization operates with the energy, ambition, and pace of a startup. We are assembling a founding team of builders, innovators, and problem solvers who are excited by the opportunity to create new products, shape new ways of working, and help define the future of technology-enabled business at KPMG. If you thrive in entrepreneurial environments, embrace ambiguity, and are motivated by the potential to make a lasting impact from the ground up, we invite you to consider joining us on this journey.

Responsibilities

• Shape the multi-year platform strategy and integrated roadmaps for an AI-native platform across multiple complex domains, aligning product, technology, and firm priorities
• Own the capability inventory and assessment across advisory and relevant functions, identifying recurring workflows, agents, data models, and integrations that should become reusable platform assets — and harvest the best of them into the shared platform in collaboration with our engineering organization
• Lead cross-domain recommendations on shared versus product-specific capabilities and build, buy, partner, or harvest options for senior product and technology leaders
• Advise engineering and architecture leaders on cross-platform architecture and integration decisions, prioritize technical debt, and ensure reusable capabilities meet scalability, reliability, security, regulatory, and technical standards
• Resolve major roadmap, dependency, reuse, and investment trade-offs across platform domains and product teams, using customer needs, technical feasibility, critical gaps, and platform value to guide decisions
• Set platform adoption and reuse measures, using build-time, cost, reliability, and product-team outcomes; Drive internal adoption through evangelism, documentation and developer experience; Coach professionals and advance technical product-management practices across teams
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in product management for technical products or platforms, including owning a B2B or enterprise platform product end to end
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; Minimum of a high school GED is required; Minimum of twelve years of equivalent professional experience is required
• Proven experience shaping platform strategy across complex technical products, platforms, or processes with results in platform adoption, cross product reuse, delivery speed, cost, or customer outcomes; experience in a complex or regulated environment is preferred
• Deep technical product management experience, including product lifecycle management, cross-product prioritization, analytics and experimentation, and defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) and service level objectives (SLOs)
• Demonstrated fluency in application programming interfaces (APIs), data models, AI and agent frameworks, integration patterns, and technical debt trade-off decisions
• Demonstrated daily use of AI across working practice, and platforms or products that have shipped or shaped where AI and agent frameworks were core rather than decorative; ability to guide shared versus product-specific capability decisions and develop build, buy, partner, or harvest recommendations
• Ability to operate with limited oversight, advise senior product and technology leaders, resolve complex cross-platform trade-offs, and coach professionals in leading technical product-management practices; preferred experience with developer or internal platforms (i.e. Agent orchestration, connector and integration architecture, or governed AI tooling) with audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls with application, data, or legacy modernization tooling
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

Pay

California Salary Range: $198,000 - $368,000. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plans
• Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year (based on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service)
• Annual calendar of holidays, plus two additional breaks each year where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off (one at year end and one around the July 4th holiday)

Schedule

KPMG recruits on a rolling basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously to any role(s) for which they are qualified that is also of interest to them.