Product Manager – IBM Cloud Platform Automation

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, let’s talk.

Ready to re-imagine the product management role?  At IBM, as an Offering Manager, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering: from validating need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements. Going beyond the traditional focus of timetables and budgets, you use your keen insights into what customers want in their own business plan – and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to a problem. If being the CEO of your offering excites you, consider an offering management career at IBM.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Product Manager on the IBM Cloud platform automation team, you will drive advances in the automation, development, and DevOps tools that help customers bring their workloads to IBM Cloud securely and efficiently. This will include:

• Working closely with customers, sellers, technical leaders, and other market experts to collect feedback and define capabilities that are needed for customer success and support our business strategy.
• Work closely with peer Product Managers to define measurable outcomes and track progress.
• 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 customer success managers.
• Stay current on competitors and market trends in our segment.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields.
• Preferred – MBA from reputed Business School.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence people and establish relationships / build rapport with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6 months to 1 Year exposure to one or more industry leading enterprise agile planning or development tools, such as Microsoft’s GitHub, Aha! Portfolio Management, etc.
• 1 to 2 years of Technology Industry Experience, with exposure to agile development practices.
• 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.