Associate Product Manager

About the Role

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

Key Responsibilities

• Own outcomes, including:
• Working closely with customers and other market experts to define capabilities needed for their success and to support business strategy.
• Defining and driving product/business strategy for the IBM Software products portfolio to achieve business revenue targets and increase market share.
• Working closely with Design to concept delightful user experiences using narratives and well-baked requirements.
• Documenting requirements, grooming the backlog, forecasting releases, planning iterations, and delivering high-quality products to end users.
• Developing effective demos for sellers and sales engineers.
• Collaborating with CTPs, sellers, CSMs, Expert Labs, technology partners, and business partners.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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, with a focus on business value and team productivity.
• 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.