Your Role and Responsibilities Your Key Responsibilities: • Product Ownership and 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: z/OS 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 z/OS Product Management Team, you have the opportunity to manage initiatives like RACF, IBM Z cryptographic capabilities (ICSF), IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), along with other Security or Workload Modernization efforts in the flagship operating system for IBM Z.Required Technical and Professional Expertise • Championing the Voice of the Customer:• Passion and Curiosity for Innovation:• 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:• Stakeholder Management:
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
5+ years of Product Management experience, with responsibility for researching feature value, developing features, and managing the lifecycle of offerings, preferably on IBM Z or IBM LinuxONE.
Experience with using tools such at Aha! and Jira.
Experience driving business case development
Sales and/or marketing experience, especially in IBM Z