Associate Product Manager
IBM · Posted Oct 15
Hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, quantum computing, and IT consulting services
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About the role
The Product Management group at IBM Software drives the strategy and delivery of IBM's enterprise software portfolio. The team works across inbound and outbound product management, collaborating with customers, design, development, sellers and partners. This role owns product outcomes, defining customer-required capabilities, shaping product and business strategy, and working with Design and Development to deliver high quality releases.
What you will do
- Working closely with customers and other market experts to define capabilities that are needed for their success and support our business strategy.
- Work closely with peer product managers in defining and driving product/business strategy for the IBM Software products portfolio to achieve business revenue targets and increase market share in a growing market.
- Work closely with Design to concept delightful user experiences using narratives and well-baked requirements.
- Work closely with Development to document requirements, groom the backlog, forecast releases, plan iterations, and deliver high quality product to end users.
- Develop effective demos for sellers and sales engineers (e.g., client technical professionals)
- Collaborate with CTPs, sellers, CSMs, Expert Labs, technology partners and business partners.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Ideal candidates for this role are individuals who flourish in a high-performance environment and cultivate the same from peers and respective teams. In addition, they are:
- Relentlessly passionate about product design, user experience, and implementing features with minimal complexity.
- Skilled at breaking down high level initiatives into actionable work items which can be delivered through Product Development Life Cycle.
- Skilled at work prioritization and backlog management
- Stewards of process and practices but not to the point of conformity where it can impact business value and team productivity.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields.
- Pursuing MBA course from reputed Business School.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence people and establish relationships / build rapport with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- 6 months to 1 Year exposure to one or more industry leading enterprise agile planning or development tools such as IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formally known as Rational Team Concert), Microsoft's Github/GitLab, Aha! Portfolio Management, Atlassian's Jira, etc.
- 1 to 2 years of Technology Industry Experience
- 1 to 2 years of experience as a business analyst or product manager in any industry/domain.
- Understanding of product roadmaps, end-to-end lifecycles, release cadence, and support.
- Experience in customer-driven usability and hypothesis-driven experimentation.
- A deep passion for innovation and creating data-backed solutions.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a global technology and consulting company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Operating in over 175 countries, IBM helps businesses across industries modernize operations, secure data, and drive digital transformation through platforms like watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift. Founded over a century ago, the company remains a pioneer in high-performance computing, enterprise automation, and quantum technology.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 260,000+ employees
- Founded
- June 16, 1911
- Location
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.5B raised
- ·Post Ipo Debt$150M
Leadership
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer
Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
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