Product Manager - Environment & Sustainability

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Sustainability Software helps companies achieve their sustainability goals by infusing data with AI into daily operations enabled by expertise to deliver profit and purpose. This happens in five core areas: sustainability strategy, data, and reporting; energy transition and climate resilience; intelligent assets, facilities, and infrastructure; responsible computing and green IT; and sustainable supply chains and circularity. Each of these areas requires collecting data, making it visible and usable, and then acting on that data to drive sustainability outcomes. IBM offers a strong set of tools and products to support clients in their sustainability journey.

As the Product Manager for Weather Data APIs within IBM Environmental Intelligence, you will be responsible for driving the usage and growth for our weather data products, ensuring seamless integration into client solutions. The Weather Data APIs provide developers and data scientists with the ability to embed weather-based insights into applications to support operational resilience and business decision-making. You will work cross-functionally with content design, engineering, sales, and product marketing to enhance the product experience, capture market needs, and grow user engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy: Define and execute the product roadmap for Weather Data APIs, aligning with the overall IBM Environmental Intelligence strategy and market needs.
• Market and User Research: Conduct ongoing market research and user interviews to maintain ideal customer profiles, identify client needs and opportunities for the Weather Data APIs, focusing on industries where weather impacts operations.
• Competitive Analysis: Monitor and analyse competitive products in the weather and climate data space, identifying areas for improvement or differentiation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering, design and data science teams to enhance API functionality, ensuring the data supports a wide range of applications, from supply chain optimization to environmental risk management.
• Customer Adoption and Engagement: Drive adoption by creating and implementing user engagement strategies, educational/ enablement materials, and customer success initiatives, ensuring customers leverage the full value of weather data.
• Partnership Development: Identify potential partnerships with other data providers, platforms, or software to expand the reach and value of IBM’s Weather Data APIs.
• API Documentation and Developer Support: Ensure that the technical documentation is clear, concise, refreshed, and discoverable to support developers and users in integrating weather data into their applications.
• Metrics and Reporting: Define, track and analyse key product metrics to measure success, including API usage, customer satisfaction, and retention, and use these insights to inform the product roadmap.
• Feedback Loop: Gather feedback from users and internal teams to continuously improve the product, identifying pain points and new opportunities for growth.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Environmental Science, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in product management, preferably with APIs or data products
• Experience working with weather data or geospatial data
• Proven track record of successfully launching and scaling technology products
• Strong understanding of API technologies, data integrations, and developer ecosystems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to translate technical concepts into customer-friendly features and benefits
• Experience with agile methodologies and tools (like Jira) and working closely with engineering teams
• Experience collaborating and working with cross-geographical functional teams.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Master’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong familiarity with meteorology
• Experience working with weather or environmental data in a B2B context
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, and experience working with enterprise clients
• Knowledge of key industries impacted by weather data, such as agriculture, logistics, and insurance