Experience Inc. Jobs

Introduction

Product Managers are business leaders tasked with making strategic decisions to manage and grow the business. They manage the product lifecycle from inception through growth, maturity, and end-of-life stages and define partnership and ecosystem strategies for product execution. Product Managers maximize internal and external relationships interfacing with Design, Product Marketing, Ecosystem Partners, Analysts, Engineering, Sales, and Services teams to deliver a successful product with defined routes to market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you'll be critical to defining how IBM will evolve its core software businesses and how it will differentiate itself in a competitive Hybrid Cloud market. You'll play a leading role in defining product requirements and go-to-market strategy. You will work across Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Consulting, and Services teams across Software and IBM Cloud to deliver a successful offering with strong routes to market.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Connecting with customers, prospects, and other market stakeholders to identify needs, validate market requirements, quantify opportunities, and then translate these into detailed product requirements for development.

• Performing market/competitor analysis to identify (and promote) unique IBM competencies

• Prioritizing requirements based on data, to maximize development investments and build an aggressive roadmap

• Building offering packages and pricing as appropriate to market conditions

• Building clear messaging that will fuel sales and marketing assets in support of launching an offering into the market.

• Maintaining a current understanding of industry and technology trends to ensure IBM maintains a strong vision and future roadmap

Successful candidates must have previous Product Management experience and demonstrate considerable experience with use cases, technology requirements, and engaging with customers, partners, user communities, and other parts of IBM.

What you'll bring:

• A customer-centric approach to delivering business value and finding ways through complex technical and business problems

• Proven ability to work with engineering and design teams

• Proven ability to work across different parts of the IBM business

• Proven ability to work with large enterprise customers and executives

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to use data to make recommendations and measure success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in Product Management

• Experience in dealing with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to build relationships, resolve problems, and promote IBM's products and services

• Demonstrated experience presenting to customers and speaking at public events.

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to adapt communication style for a broad range of audiences

• Technical understanding of delivering SaaS products to market and what it takes to modernize application workloads

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Technical understanding of WebSphere, MQ, Db2, and IBM Cloud services

• Experience in analyzing the financial aspects of product development and delivery

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Life @ IBMWonder if IBM is the one for you?

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that dedication to our client's success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth-minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow and collaborate with colleagues, keeping in mind a team-focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions every day is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome-focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.