Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers' challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your Role and Responsibilities

1. Objectives of this role

2. Lead overall strategy for the development of education and training programs to support IBM Product Managers with their career track and skill development.

3. Drive strategy and roadmap for the IBM Product Management website

4. Oversee all curriculum planning and design for the portfolio of product manager education and enablement programs, informing appropriate instruction models

5. Align all educational and enablement programs to the IBM HR and business expectations of product managers

6. Bring industry best practices to bear when developing course design and activation programming

7. Contribute to the operational plan and program for all Product Manager education, including PM Academy

8. Establish tools and frameworks to aid product managers and PM people managers with regular, data-driven performance assessments

9. Coordinate and organize modularized learning programs for deep skill development

10. Deliver course materials, serving as lead facilitator and coach

11. Guide and supervise all facilitation and lead training and enablement for course instructor

12. Responsibilities

13. Work closely with Product Management Transformation Office, Design Program Office, and Product Operating and Growth teams to develop the scope, deliverables, course formats, exercise design, course experience and instructor enablement and timing for PM Academy courses

14. Manage program and course curriculum deliverables

15. Identify key requirements for cross-functional teams, coaches and facilitators

16. Design course evaluation criteria and assessments

17. Tailors course instruction and facilitates classes to meet participants' learning differences and needs

18. Analyze, evaluate, and overcome educational program risks, and produce course reports for managers and stakeholders

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven proficiency in curriculum planning and instructional design

• Product management experience, B2B enterprise and SaaS a plus

• Proven organizational skills, including time management

• Strong strategic thinking, teaching and coaching skills

• Self-sufficiency and an ability to work with minimal supervision

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10 or more years of experience in Software Product Management, with three or more years of experience in an educational, enablement, or similar role

• Website design and digital product management experience

• Proficiency with Excel, and experience with Keynote + Powerpoint

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 @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients 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 everyday, 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, as well as 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 everyday 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 StatementIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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.