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Introduction

IBM Z Product Managers deliver business results by bringing high-quality products to market by defining the strategy and execution plans while continuously innovating to maintain market leadership. The z/OS DevOps (zDevX) organization is looking for Product Managers who are experts at market and business analysis, product definition, product roadmap, pricing, ecosystem, channel strategy, strategic planning, competitive analysis, innovation and leading cross-functional teams. They manage the product lifecycle from inception through growth, maturity, and end of life stages and define partnership and ecosystem strategy for product execution. Product Managers maximize internal and external relationships interfacing with design, product marketing, ecosystem partners, analysts, engineering, sales and services teams to deliver a successful product with defined routes to market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

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 trade-offs with unparalleled skill. Your communication style leaves team members feeling respected, heard, and understood. Now, imagine channelling your expertise to shape the technology of tomorrow-a force that powers the world around us and yields an impact to be proud of.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Product Ownership and Growth:

Your duties will be to drive clients bring modern development practices to z/OS help customers adopt GenAI in their development process. 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. To work with IBM Sales, Business Partners, GSIs to help with product adoption and to increase the mindshare and marketshare of Z DevX products.

• Strategic Leadership & Partnership:

Z DevX 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. As a member of the Z DevX Product Management Team, you have the opportunity to manage different initiatives like working with IBM research in utilizing GenAI in existing products to bringing new products to market using GenAI.

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. B2B Product Management or Product Development experience, with responsibility for researching feature value, developing features, and managing the lifecycle of offerings in Mainframe.

• 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.

• Client facing experience:

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 DevOps or Hybrid Cloud or Application Modernization topic areas. This experience could be a wide range of possibilities demonstrating an understanding of the IBM Z DevOps space 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 Expertise

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, with responsibility for researching feature value, developing features, and managing the lifecycle of offerings, preferably on IBM Z or Enterprise DevOps

• 8+years of software engineering experience

• Knowledge of DevOps concepts and real life implementation experience.

• Experience with using tools such at Aha! and Jira.

• Experience driving business case development

• Sales and/or marketing experience, especially in IBM Z

About Business UnitIBM 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.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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