Introduction
The Product Manager role is key to IBM Sustainability Software delivering new and exciting offerings to our clients. This is a PM position, responsible for the Maximo Application Suite industry and reliability offerings and future strategy, including defining requirements, business cases with investment plans, pricing/revenue/ forecast estimates, working with Consulting, Sales, Business Partners, Customers, Design, Development, and other stakeholders to build a product roadmap, go-to-market strategy and enablement for the product offerings.
• The Product Manager acts as a general manager of markets and offerings
• Develop product vision and direction of future offering enhancements that address competitive gaps and meet market requirements
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• Coordinate across the teams that build, market, sell, and deliver IBM solutions and offerings
• Working with clients, partners, and prospects to identify market requirements, opportunities, user problems, and gaps
• Defines user experiences that are compelling and competitive
The day-to-day tasks include the management of the roadmap by looking ahead and having a clear vision of where the product should go and working with both internal & external stakeholders to validate this vision and correct course if needed. The Maximo Application Suite product manager is the focal of the product and will be responsible for clarifying the requirements of any new enhancements, industry use cases or requests to allow for sound decision-making in terms of the potential development effort. This requires working closely with various stakeholders including Consulting, Design, Development, Sales & Account management. In addition, the PM is responsible for gaining deep product knowledge to assist sales with crafting and delivering compelling product demonstrations to customers.
Your Role and Responsibilities
The Product Manager will be responsible for clearly handing over validated & approved requirements to the development team as epics defined in Aha. This will include documenting requirements, creating user stories, lead design workshops with the UX and technical design team, articulate the vision of an idea and be able to make it real and practical so that it can be built into the product, document the workflow of an idea and clearly articulate the use cases.
Cross functional collaboration & communication is key to the success of this role to ensure stakeholder expectations are managed given the constant balance between new features & ensuring a quality & stable product that continues to meet existing clients' needs. The Product Manager role is part of the team that helps set the priorities for the development sprints, in collaboration with the development team.
In addition, the PM is responsible for gaining deep product knowledge to assist sales with crafting and delivering compelling product demonstrations to customers
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Strong background and understanding of asset lifecycle management, asset performance management, and enterprise asset management
• 3+ years' experience and knowledge of Maximo Enterprise Asset Management or related EAM-type systems
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• 3 years of experience in strategy or product management roles, that includes:
- Competitive analysis
- Pre-sales or customer support role
- Presenting at conferences and webinars (proven communication skills)
• Background of application software development
• Knowledge of IBM AI technologies