Associate Product Manager

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

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 Software products 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 sales engineers (e.g., client technical professionals)
• Collaborate with CTPs, sellers, CSMs, Expert Labs, 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.
• Pursuing MBA course 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 Experience

• 6 months to 1 Year exposure to one or more industry leading enterprise agile planning or development tools such as IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formally known as Rational Team Concert), Microsoft's Github/GitLab, 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.