Apptio – Principal Product Manager

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job – its a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things youve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the worlds most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

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 tradeoffs with unparalleled skill. Your communication style leaves team members feeling respected, heard, and understood. Now, imagine channeling 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:

Own multiple product areas or a standalone product, contributing to the strategy, steering growth and continuous improvement while embodying expertise in your product space.

Agile Team Facilitation:

Foster an Agile team environment, maximizing productivity throughout the entire product development lifecycle.

Innovative Development:

Drive innovative development with a roadmap centered on maximizing customer outcomes and minimizing technical debt.

Strategic Leadership:

Lead your products strategy by aligning multiple stakeholders, delivering valuable outcomes, and realizing the intended impact. Display thought leadership within and outside of IBM at various events. Effectively communicate the strategy/vision/roadmap for the owned product.

Strategic Partnerships:

Establish strategic partnerships to amplify the value and reach of your product. Expand functionality and attract an adjacent customer base to drive continued success of both Customers and Partners.

Cross-organization Alliances:

Collaborate and support other Functions in the organization, for an accelerated business growth and product market success

Managing or mentoring junior members of PM team:

Foster culture of collaboration and continuous improvement in the team. Use your experience to help more junior team members elevate their product management expertise and apply best practices.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

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.

Financial Acumen for Commercial Success:

Showcase strong financial acumen, with an ability to develop a compelling product business case. Drive commercial success through a profound understanding of impacts to P&L and SaaS metrics such as LTV, CAC, and NRR.

End-to-End Product Development Expertise:

Leverage your experience and deep technical expertise (ideally Computer Science background) in driving product ownership and growth across the full product development lifecycle. Provide demonstrable examples of successful product discovery and launch.

Stakeholder Management:

Prove your ability to effectively communicate and manage multiple stakeholder relationships. Rely on influence rather than authority to establish a shared product vision.

Industry affinity and/or experience:

Be able to leverage past product management experience in large enterprises in some of these areas: Strategic Portfolio Management, Enterprise Agile Development Practices, Developer Productivity and Project Costing.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Product Analytics and Funnel Metrics Mastery:

Showcase experience in defining leading success indicators and supporting metrics, to track product performance. Share a proven record of generating growth through analytics.

Applying AI to solve business challenges:

Demonstrate experience or knowledge on how to leverage AI technologies to deliver customer and business value.

Drive success in a multicultural environment

Bring forth prior experience working and thriving in a multinational, multicultural environment.

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. IBMs 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. IBMs 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.

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Location StatementIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

– Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

– Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs.

– Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.

– Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals.

– Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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