Product Manager - Turbonomic

Introduction
At Turbonomic an IBM company we deliver a best-in-class automation platform that helps customers safely free capacity both human and budget to focus on IT innovation. Turbonomic’s Application Resource Management (ARM) platform continuously assures that the full application stack has precisely the right resources needed to perform while maintaining policy compliance and eliminating overspending.
Today’s IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to deliver applications and services faster with greater efficiency. At Turbonomic we believe these IT organizations cannot meet the needs of their business with a collection of “tools” that produce information for humans to consume and humans to use. IT Operations must transform by adopting a full-stack automation platform that can assure the performance of any application in any environment: Turbonomic. Join our team and help us transform IT!

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to help drive the Turbonomic roadmap and work with technology partners. An ideal candidate would be adaptable analytical persuasive empathetic tenacious and a creative problem solver who is exposed to and is well versed in both business and technology concepts. We are specifically looking for candidates with in-depth exposure to any of the following:

• Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling
• Public Cloud (AWS Azure GCP etc.)
• Container Platforms (Kubernetes)

Product Managers (PM) operate in a demanding role at the epicenter of multidisciplinary teams which include design engineering sales marketing finance and legal. In this role you’ll play a central role in leading and orchestrating the definition of product requirements and go-to-market activities to solve data challenges of enterprise and mid-market clients.
This role requires collaboration and coordination across internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of our organization.

What you’ll do:

• Own a specific product area within Turobnomic including becoming a technical SME.
  This includes pricing packaging and go-to-market activities.
• Work with customers and our field to identify necessary improvements to existing functionality as well as define new functionality to maximize customer adoption and business value with the product.
• Work with development and testing teams to define clear accomplishable requirements for new public cloud functionality.
• Manage UI/UX design process assuring all functionality developed is easy to use and clearly articulates its value to customers.
• Use a combination of customer usage data and market research to prioritize new functionality into an aggressive roadmap that balances new functionality improvements and technical debt.
• Ensure field teams have the content and context necessary to help customers leverage all functionality (new and existing) in your defined area.
• Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.

What you’ll bring:

• A customer-centric focus on how to deliver business value with a keen understanding of the IT enterprise ecosystem.
• Enjoy working with highly technical customers and team members.
• Ability to work with sales and sales engineering and development teams.
• Ability to work with large enterprise customers and executives.
• A demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to make recommendations and measure success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years of experience working with Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling
• 3+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT solutions (infrastructure monitoring management maintenance etc)
• Demonstrated experience driving product ownership and growth
• Experience in Product Management with a technical background

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Public Cloud (AWS Azure GCP etc.)
• Container Platforms (Kubernetes)
• Technical enablement pricing and marketing documentation.
• An understanding of the cloud industry trends and technology stacks (nosql app service environments serverless containers)
• Insightful into how to delight enterprise IT users who are invested in the cloud technology stack and are struggling with scale manageability complexity cost and performance issues.