Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking a skilled, results-driven Product Manager. You will work with cross-functional teams to grow IBM’s Integration portfolio with differentiated and competitive products. In this role you are an energetic self-starter and creative problem solver.
- Define and lead the product roadmap with a focus on improving and expanding capabilities to meet current and future customer needs.
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer interviews to inform product strategy.
- Identify, prioritize, write and maintain product requirements that clearly define features, functionality, and metrics for success.
- Lead Agile practices to progress committed plans from design through delivery.
- Plan, package and launch capabilities into the market to drive towards strategic goals.
- Work directly with customers and business partners to promote product capabilities, understand pain points, discuss enhancement requests, and engage various disciplines to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate effectively with other product managers and members of cross-functional teams including Design, Development, Support, Sales, Services and Business Partners.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
You are required to have a minimum of 3+ years experience in each of the following:
- Product management, product development, or other customer-facing roles.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.
- Experience working directly with customers.
- Interpersonal skills to bridge the gap between technical and business focals.
- Experience writing detailed requirements.
- Effective problem-solving and organizational skills.
- Ability to self-manage, prioritize, and move forward in the face of ambiguity.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Growth mindset.
- Confident and engaging public speaker.
- Experience performing competitive and Win/Loss analysis.
- Experience with agile development practices and tools such as Aha! and GitHub.
- Experience with SaaS, Application Integration, iPaaS, B2B Integration, APIs.