• Define and continuously refine the Platform Product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap (paved roads, golden paths, internal developer platform capabilities, and self-service catalogs). • Translate business and engineering priorities into clear outcomes and OKRs (e.g., lead-time reduction, change failure rate, MTTR, SLO attainment, cloud cost per transaction). • Maintain and socialize the roadmap with executive, product, security, data, and infrastructure stakeholders. • Operate a rigorous intake and triage process to balance strategic initiatives with operational/adhoc requests; make trade-offs visible. • Own prioritization using impact/effort, cost savings, risk reduction, and developer adoption metrics. • Drive execution with the Sr EM: articulate acceptance criteria, define release milestones, run sprint ceremonies, and ensure on-time delivery. • Productize platform capabilities (e.g., service templates, CI/CD pipelines, deploy buttons, environment provisioning, secrets & identity, observability by default) to reduce toil. • Lead adoption of an Internal Developer Portal (e.g., Backstage) and Service Catalog with opinionated defaults (security, SLOs, logging, tracing). • Launch and measure golden paths for common workloads (web, API, batch, data/ML), targeting time-to-first-prod and onboarding time reductions. • Partner with SRE/SecOps to define SLOs, error budgets, incident response playbooks, and change management guardrails; ensure platform upgrades (Kubernetes, runtimes, libraries) occur with minimal disruption. • Own cloud cost KPIs: cost/booking, cost/request, unit economics per product area. • Drive savings plans, rightsizing, autoscaling, storage lifecycle policies, and data egress governance. • Publish transparent showback/chargeback reports to business/product leaders; forecast spend vs. budget. • Run Platform Council (monthly) to align priorities and communicate trade-offs. • Build customer empathy: perform user research with product teams, run betas, gather NPS, and iterate. • Create clear documentation, release notes, and enablement assets (videos, how-to guides, runbooks).