Associate Product Manager

About the Role

You will join a dynamic Product Management group at IBM Software. You will gain significant experience, getting opportunities in performing a variety of roles in both Inbound and Outbound Product Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Own outcomes as a Product Manager.
• Work closely with customers and other market experts to define capabilities needed for their success and support business strategy.
• Work closely with peer product managers in defining and driving product/business strategy for the IBM Software products portfolio to achieve business revenue targets and increase market share.
• Work closely with Design to concept delightful user experiences using narratives and well-baked requirements.
• Work closely with Development to document requirements, groom the backlog, forecast releases, plan iterations, and deliver high-quality product to end users.
• Develop effective demos for sellers and sales engineers (e.g., client technical professionals).
• Collaborate with CTPs, sellers, CSMs, Expert Labs, technology partners, and business partners.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ideal candidates are individuals who flourish in a high-performance environment and cultivate the same from peers and respective teams.
• Relentlessly passionate about product design, user experience, and implementing features with minimal complexity.
• Skilled at breaking down high-level initiatives into actionable work items deliverable through the Product Development Life Cycle.
• Skilled at work prioritization and backlog management.
• Stewards of process and practices but adaptable where it can impact business value and team productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields.
• Pursuing MBA course from a reputed Business School.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence people and establish relationships / build rapport with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• 6 months to 1 Year exposure to one or more industry-leading enterprise agile planning or development tools such as IBM Engineering Workflow Management, Microsoft's Github/GitLab, Aha! Portfolio Management, Atlassian's Jira, etc.
• 1 to 2 years of Technology Industry Experience.
• 1 to 2 years of experience as a business analyst or product manager in any industry/domain.
• Understanding of product roadmaps, end-to-end lifecycles, release cadence, and support.
• Experience in customer-driven usability and hypothesis-driven experimentation.
• A deep passion for innovation and creating data-backed solutions.