Multi-Cloud Platforms Product Manager
City : Markham
Category : Other
Industry : Technology/Computer Services
Employer : IBM
Introduction
Ready to re-imagine the product management role? At IBM, as an Offering Manager, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering: from validating need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements. Going beyond the traditional focus of timetables and budgets, you use your keen insights into what customers want in their own business plan - and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to a problem. If being the CEO of your offering excites you, consider an offering management career at IBM.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Product Manager in IBM Software Multi-Cloud Platforms you will define, manage, and measure the outcome of feature builds on shared product architectures and services utilized by IBM container software and SaaS products. You will gather insights through customer feedback, matrixed product teams, and internal stakeholder inputs and use them in the value assessment and prioritization of engineering builds. You are responsible for negotiating the scope of organizational priorities in the delivery of high-value foundational services.
Multi-Cloud Platforms Product Managers represent our vision and roadmap to senior executives in Product Management and Development while guiding and assisting IBMs overall product delivery organizations to uniformly adopt critical capabilities that matter to our customers. Typical responsibilities include:
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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.
Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Ready to re-imagine the product management role? At IBM, as an Offering Manager, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering: from validating need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements. Going beyond the traditional focus of timetables and budgets, you use your keen insights into what customers want in their own business plan - and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to a problem. If being the CEO of your offering excites you, consider an offering management career at IBM.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Product Manager in IBM Software Multi-Cloud Platforms you will define, manage, and measure the outcome of feature builds on shared product architectures and services utilized by IBM container software and SaaS products. You will gather insights through customer feedback, matrixed product teams, and internal stakeholder inputs and use them in the value assessment and prioritization of engineering builds. You are responsible for negotiating the scope of organizational priorities in the delivery of high-value foundational services.
Multi-Cloud Platforms Product Managers represent our vision and roadmap to senior executives in Product Management and Development while guiding and assisting IBMs overall product delivery organizations to uniformly adopt critical capabilities that matter to our customers. Typical responsibilities include:
- Facilitate end-to-end business planning for GTM, set detailed direction and priorities across disciplines, and monitor follow-through for quarterly commits.
- Drive the success of Foundational Services by invoking an adoption strategy.
- Contribute to cross-functional planning and delivery execution with technical leads and product management peers.
- Evangelize common architectures and influence the adoption of progressive Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes technologies and edition updates.
- Manage the full product lifecycle through all aspects of strategy and execution.
- Collaborate and coordinate product development utilizing a 3-in-a-box approach with Product Management, Design, and Technical leads.
- Facilitate design thinking approaches through collaboration with field representatives, matrixed product managers, and channel representatives.
- Analyze and respond to product performance based on quantitative and qualitative data.
- Create plans that have clear, measurable success criteria and a reporting structure is in place to monitor product health.
- Ensure stakeholders are always up to date on product vision, plans, and status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 5+ years of experience in Software Product Management
- Technical knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker solution development/test/delivery
- Proven experience in driving the adoption of products and services
- Ability to prioritize according to strategic business goals
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex schedules and successfully drive interlock across multiple stakeholders
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Deep knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Experience with container software products delivered on-prem or in cloud (hybrid models)
- Experience with and participation in initiatives based on open-source communities
- Experience with IBM Cloud, AWS and/or Azure cloud service frameworks
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.
Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.