Product Manager

Introduction
The Cloud Pak for AIOps is one of the fastest-growing and most powerful AIOps platforms in the IT Operations Management market. Our team is looking for a Product Manager to drive the Market analysis and Product strategy of products in our product portfolio. This position will work with Design and Development to create and deploy competitive offerings. This position will also work with Sales to win competitive opportunities. This position will also work with Marketing to position the product in market and drive pipeline/growth as well as work with all key Geos to drive business and market understanding. This position will also have interactions with multiple cross-functional teams and be required to have strong communication and organizational skills.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Product Manager Market Analysis and Product Strategists are responsible for defining Business problems User experiences / pain points relevant technologies competitive intelligence Market financials: size growth rate market share % and Market trends.
As a Product Manager you will:

• Utilize Continuous Discovery Habits and Design Thinking to solve customer problems in innovative ways.
• Engage customers to capture feedback develop insights evangelize and educate
• Identify discrete segments within our customer base. Define user value proposition and experience roadmaps.
• Collaborate and communicate with other Product Managers in planning processes and coordinate product execution.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering and Design to create and iterate on multiple differentiated product and customer experiences.
• Maintain an end-to-end business plan for products in market (including pricing); set detailed direction and priorities across disciplines and monitor follow-through.
• Manage products in market and propose ideas to respond to market feedback / changes.
• Conduct perform and analyze market research to identify new opportunities including competitive research analyst reports making strategic recommendations for future product direction.
• Determine pricing marketing communication strategy identify routes to market and be responsible for enabling the channels working with Go-To-Market teams.
• Works across all stages of product lifecycle from product definition planning release modifications maintenance and market response.
• Successful candidates will possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy a big-picture vision and a user-centric viewpoint.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in engineering product management
• Demonstrated experience in defining and driving processes at scale across large organizations.
• Organizational and collaboration skills with a demonstrated history of successfully defining and driving initiatives that span multiple organizational boundaries.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience in presenting and reporting to leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability in successfully delivering initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience in the entire software development lifecycle. Understanding of application development is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills combined with a strategic orientation.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• MBA or Masters in Engineering preferred.
• Passion for driving increased efficiency across teams in multiple multinational locations.