Introduction

We are seeking a results-driven Product Manager to join our IBM Integration Software team to help accelerate our product-led growth initiatives. The successful candidate is an energetic self-starter with the technical and business skills who can analyze digital funnel and trial usage data and collaborate across teams to accelerate usage and growth. In this role, focus is on our Event Automation product which is part of our iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) offerings.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM Workload Automation/Scheduler (IWA) is one of the most widely used workload automation tools in the industry. Our team is looking for a Product Manager to work alongside our IPP partner to evaluate opportunities, determine the features and outcomes that drive the greatest revenue for the products in our product portfolio and drive go to market. The IWA Product Manager will manage the entire product lifecycle for IWA - working cross-functionally with the various teams involved in building and bringing the product to market. This position will work with our IPP partner to create and deploy competitive offerings. This position will also work with Sales to win new organic opportunities and help with competitive take out opportunities. This position will also have interactions with multiple customers, as well as cross-functional teams. Strong communication, strategic thinking, and organizational skills are key in this role.

Product Managers at IBM are responsible for defining Business problems, User experiences / pain points, relevant technologies, competitive intelligence, Market financials: size, growth rate, market share % and Market trends.

As an Advisory Product Manager, you will:

• Utilize Continuous Discovery Habits and Design Thinking to solve customer problems in innovative ways.

• Define and maintain user and experience outcome-based product roadmaps.

• Collaborate and communicate with other Product Managers in planning processes and coordinate product execution

• Work with enabling Sales Team, helping with customer requests and collaborating with sales, IPP partner on pipeline opportunities

• Work collaboratively with IBM's IPP partner to create differentiated product and customer experiences.

• Maintain an end-to-end business plan for products in market (including pricing); set detailed direction and priorities across disciplines and monitor follow-through.

• Manage products in market and propose ideas to respond to market feedback / changes.

• Perform market research to identify new opportunities including competitive research, analyst reports making strategic recommendations for future product direction.

• Determine pricing, marketing communication strategy, identify routes to market, and be responsible for enabling the channels working with Go-To-Market teams

• Successful candidates will possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, a user-centric viewpoint, the drive to maximize market opportunities by designing and developing new offerings and capabilities.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in engineering product management

• Demonstrated experience in defining and driving processes at scale across large organizations.

• Organizational and collaboration skills with a demonstrated history of successfully defining and driving initiatives that span multiple organizational boundaries. 

• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated experience in communicating and reporting to leadership teams.

• Demonstrated ability in successfully delivering initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity.

• Demonstrated experience in the entire software development life cycle.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• MBA or Masters in Engineering preferred.

• Passion for driving increased efficiency across teams in multiple multinational locations.

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This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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