Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
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Are you a seasoned Product Manager with a proven track record of successful product ownership and growth? Colleagues regard you as someone who navigates customer outcomes, business impacts, and functional tradeoffs with unparalleled skill. Your communication style leaves team members feeling respected, heard, and understood. Now, imagine channeling your expertise to shape the technology of tomorrow-a force that powers the world around us and yields an impact to be proud of. The IBM zSW organization is looking for a product management candidate to focus on either the Product or Workload Modernization spaces of the IBM z product portfolio. As part of the IBM SW organization, you will work with key technical and business leaders with a specific focus on IBM Z technologies to enable new workload growth.. ,
Your duties will be to drive client workload modernization or enhanced client security posture on z/OS and across the enterprise You will be responsible for owning one or more key initiatives, taking them from concept to production and working through the product management process and discipline along the way. You will collaborate with design, development, operations staff, and other fellow PMs to bring these initiatives to market..
• Strategic Leadership:
zSW Product Managers are responsible for owning business aspects of these initiatives as well as ensuring that technical requirements have been met by the appropriate teams prior to product/feature launch.
• Strategic Partnerships:
As a member of the zSW Product Management Team, you have the opportunity to manage initiatives IMS, Hybrid Cloud Foundation (HCF), z/OS Open Automation (ZoAU), Event Driven Automation (EDA) along with other Middleware or Workload Modernization efforts in the flagship operating system for IBM Z.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Championing the Voice of the Customer:
Demonstrate a track record of championing the voice of the customer. Your approach includes conducting customer-driven usability studies and hypothesis-driven experimentation. Product Management or Product Development experience, with responsibility for researching feature value, developing features, and managing the lifecycle of offerings, preferably on IBM Z or IBM Linux ONE
• Passion and Curiosity for Innovation:
Exhibit deep passion and curiosity, driven by a desire to create innovative solutions. Your decisions are informed by data-driven insights that fuel your commitment to transformative solutions. AI experience to build from - The experience could be a wide range of scenarios, as a Db2 SQL user, analytics professional, a machine learning or AI advocate, etc.
• Financial Acumen for Commercial Success:
Experience managing risks and resolving issues that affect deployment scope, schedule and quality, and communicating those issues to affected parties early and often Demonstrated communication skills in a client facing environment.
• End-to-End Product Development Expertise:
Expertise in either the Security or Workload/Application Modernization topic areas. This experience could be a wide range of possibilities demonstrating an understanding of the IBM Z security space or the DevOps and application environment space on IBM Z
• Stakeholder Management:
Solid People and Project Management skills, as this person will need to adjust quickly to get best results from unique or unexpected scenarios. Candidates will need to iterate product plans with sponsor users, knowing that some products will need to evolve from their initial MVP.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- 5+ years of Product Management experience, with responsibility for researching feature value, developing features, and managing the lifecycle of offerings.
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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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