IBM Hiring for Product Manager – IBM Cloud Security Services at Bangalore, India Full Time

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

The Role and Responsibilities of the Product Manager are below :

• Market intelligence – Be the expert on our buyers, how they buy, and their industry use cases; be the expert on our competition and how to put them out of business

• Positioning – Identify and develop product positioning that uniquely differentiates IBM Cloud as the leading provider of hybrid cloud security

• Financial – develop and track business strategy, with responsibility over Profit and Loses

• Sales and marketing tools – Create market and GTM strategy and assets that communicate the value proposition of our products and help enterprise sales compete effectively in an ever-evolving market

• Product launch – Plan the market launch of new products and releases and manage the cross-functional implementation of the plan across sales and product management

• Communications – Work with sales and marketing teams to broadcast our message to the market, across the organization, and our partner community

• Industry leadership – Represent the company at industry events (conferences and trade shows) digitally (on webinars, podcasts, and social media), and as a spokesperson for analyst and press coverage

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Worked as a Product Manager and has experience in leading hybrid cloud security products or services

• Experience driving high growth business, new product introduction with strong focus on establishing credibility in the market

• Knowledge of the cloud security and data security market segment – technologies, best practices, vendors, and competitive landscape

• Experience with enterprise requirements and common security and compliance policies for large banking and financial institutions

• Strategic and creative thinker

• Strong business and data analysis skills related to the public and private cloud.

• Experienced in building business plans and constructing solid business cases that are based on facts and numbers

• Strong leadership skills to drive ideas and projects to completion across a highly matrixed organization

• Effectively manage priorities and a product backlog with familiarity in Agile development methodology.

• Analytical skills and prior roles managing a product or services portfolio, performing financial and market analysis

• Strong communication skills and comfortable presenting to large and small audiences

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the software development industry, and proven track record in delivering highly technical products, product collateral and broad team enablement

• Minimum of 3 years experience of strong leadership skills to create and drive ideas and projects to completion across a highly matrixed organization (intra and inter division)

• Minimum 3 years experience or equivalent education in Business and Management to analyze the business, market demand, cost and revenue, perform price analysis, GTM market plans, and produce competitive landscape reports

• Minimum of 1 year in relationship management with clients or business partners

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understanding of cyber security domain in reference to solutions and implementation processes

• Specialization in Data/Information Science would be preferred

• Experience with hybrid multicloud deployments including Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Proficiency in developing modernized applications

• Experience with enterprise requirements and common security and compliance policies for large enterprises especially in key industries like Banking and Financial, Insurance, Government, Telco, Retail, and Healthcare

• Understanding of the OM/PM process: requirements gathering and prioritizing, successful leadership through the release process, GTM and channels, ISV relations, business development. Experience building a business and driving long term success

About Business UnitDigitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds – public, private, and hybrid – enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client’s data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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