Application and Data Services Product Manager

Introduction
Product Managers are business leaders tasked with making strategic decisions to manage and grow the business. They manage the product lifecycle from inception through growth maturity and end-of-life stages and define partnership and ecosystem strategies for product execution. Product Managers maximize internal and external relationships interfacing with Design Product Marketing Ecosystem Partners Analysts Engineering Sales and Services teams to deliver a successful product with defined routes to market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
In this role you’ll be critical to defining how IBM will evolve its core software businesses and how it will differentiate itself in a competitive Hybrid Cloud market. You’ll play a leading role in defining product requirements and go-to-market strategy. You will work across Engineering Design Marketing Sales Consulting and Services teams across Software and IBM Cloud to deliver a successful offering with strong routes to market.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Connecting with customers prospects and other market stakeholders to identify needs validate market requirements quantify opportunities and then translate these into detailed product requirements for development.
• Performing market/competitor analysis to identify (and promote) unique IBM competencies
• Prioritizing requirements based on data to maximize development investments and build an aggressive roadmap
• Building offering packages and pricing as appropriate to market conditions
• Building clear messaging that will fuel sales and marketing assets in support of launching an offering into the market.
• Maintaining a current understanding of industry and technology trends to ensure IBM maintains a strong vision and future roadmap

Successful candidates must have previous Product Management experience and demonstrate considerable experience with use cases technology requirements and engaging with customers partners user communities and other parts of IBM.

What you’ll bring:
• A customer-centric approach to delivering business value and finding ways through complex technical and business problems
• Proven ability to work with engineering and design teams
• Proven ability to work across different parts of the IBM business
• Proven ability to work with large enterprise customers and executives
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to use data to make recommendations and measure success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in Product Management

• Experience in dealing with customers partners and internal stakeholders to build relationships resolve problems and promote IBM’s products and services

• Demonstrated experience presenting to customers and speaking at public events.

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to adapt communication style for a broad range of audiences

• Technical understanding of delivering SaaS products to market and what it takes to modernize application workloads

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Technical understanding of WebSphere MQ Db2 and IBM Cloud services
• Experience in analyzing the financial aspects of product development and delivery