Senior Technical Product Manager - Kubernetes

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

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

Your Role and Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 7+ years of experience working with any of the following:
• Container Platforms (Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling
• 5+ 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 an technical/engineering background

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 7+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT products (infrastructure monitoring management maintenance etc)
• Public Cloud (AWS Azure GCP etc.)
• On-Premise Virtualization (Hypervisors Storage Network)
• Proven experience driving large product growth on a cloud focused platform or product
• Keen understanding of enterprise best practices of cloud management – tagging resourcing provisioning scaling and optimizing
• A deep understanding of the cloud industry trends and technology stacks (nosql app service environments serverless containers)
• Insight into how to delight enterprise IT users who are invested in the public cloud technology stack and are struggling with scale manageability complexity cost and performance issues