Product Manager

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.

You will join a dynamic Product Management group at IBM Infrastructure. You will gain significant experience, getting opportunities in performing a variety of roles in both Inbound and Outbound Product Management.

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, you will own outcomes. This will include:

• 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 Cloud IaaS 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 customer success managers.
• Collaborate with sellers, CSMs, marketing, finance, technology partners and business partners.
• 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.

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, 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.