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Your Role and Responsibilities As a Product Manager you will be doing product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with Strategy, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the IBM’s overall strategy and goals.
As the product Manager, you will be expected to:
Be the voice of customer
Drive grouping and prioritization of customer requirements
Work with the sales teams and customers to ensure products continually meet market requirements while maintaining business objectives
Gather and analyse all available research and data sources to continually refine and improve all aspects of the product
Coordinate with Sales and Marketing teams to develop go to market plan for assigned products or industry segments
Work with Marketing to create product positioning and messaging for marketing activities
Identify new market and product opportunities and define target market requirements, which create the foundation for the overall product strategy and roadmap
Create business case and revenue projections for new features, products and services.
Assist the finance department with pricing strategy for products and services based on growth and profitability objectives
Monitor competitor capabilities, anticipate market conditions and present strategies for enhancing our leadership position
General Expectations
Experience with Telco and Edge environments including networks and infrastructure management
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
Have the ability to synthesize complex issues and opinions into simple stories
Have the ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion in an iterative way
Show attention to details, proactive self-starter
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Overall 5 to 7 years of experience with 2+ years on product management.
Atleast 2+ years of relevant experience in defining Portfolio & Product Strategy catering to Telco’s & Enterprises for SDN/NFV solutions
Strong telecommunications knowledge with Proficient understanding of Virtualization, NFV/SDN, Network Slicing, Open stack, Kubernetes & Public Cloud Networking environments, etc.
Exposure to AI technologies, and application of AI in networking
Ability to manage all associated activities throughout Product life cycle in collaboration with other functional groups (Sales, marketing, Finance, Engineering, Services, Partners etc)
Experience in generating Product collaterals – whitepapers, technical product marketing, development of pricing models, Market research and competitive analysis
Product Management expertise with ability to build internal and external relationships at all levels.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Exposure to product managing SaaS platforms, management of a product portfolio
