Associate Product Manager

Introduction

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Working closely with customers and other market experts to define capabilities that are needed for their success and support our 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 in a growing market.
• 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.
• Ideal candidates for this role are individuals who flourish in a high-performance environment and cultivate the same from peers and respective teams. In addition, they are:
• Relentlessly passionate about product design, user experience, and implementing features with minimal complexity.
• Skilled at breaking down high level initiatives into actionable work items which can be delivered through Product Development Life Cycle.
• Skilled at work prioritization and backlog management
• Stewards of process and practices but not to the point of conformity where it can impact business value and team productivity.
  

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields.
• Pursuing MBA course from 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 (formally known as Rational Team Concert), 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.