You’ll analyze business opportunities, specify and prioritize customer requirements, and guide product development teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that resonate with global B2B customers. As a product manager, you will be or become an expert on the product, market, and related business domains.
Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success:
- Lead the transformation of a startup-level solution from Model9 into a robust enterprise-grade product, addressing the complex needs of global organizations.
- Collaborate with engineering and QA teams to ensure technical feasibility, resolve roadblocks, and deliver solutions that align with customer needs
- Work closely with customers, prospects, sales, presales, and customer success to understand current pain points and potential future requirements.
- Help plan product deliveries, including documenting detailed requirements, scheduling releases, and publishing roadmaps.
- Ensure product-market fit in the domains under your responsibility, including maintaining a strategic backlog of prioritized features.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across development, QA, solutions marketing, sales, and support teams to ensure seamless product delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Distil complex business and technical requirements into clear, concise PRD's and prioritized feature backlogs.
To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:
- 3+ years of software product management experience in an enterprise/B2B software company, including experience working with global B2B customers.
- Technical background (preferably previous experience as a developer or QA)
- In-depth knowledge of the z/OS operating system, its architecture, and components.
- Skills in data protection, and disaster recovery planning for mainframe systems.
- B.Sc. in a related field (preferably Software Engineering or similar) or equivalent
- Confidence in presenting to different types of audience (technical/business, junior/senior, small/large)
- Experience leading new products and product features through ideation, research, planning, development, go-to-market and feedback cycles
- Fluent English, spoken and written.
- Willingness to travel, typically 1-2 times a quarter
Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following skills:
- Knowledge / experience of agile methods (especially lean); familiarity with Aha!, Jira, Confluence.
- Understanding of programming languages commonly used on z/OS, such as COBOL, PL/I, REXX, and assembler.
- Understanding of z/OS subsystems such as JES2/JES3, RACF, DB2, CICS, MQ, and IMS.
- Experience in Cloud-based products and technologies (containerization, serverless approaches, vendor-specific cloud services, cloud security)
- Experience with data management solutions.