IBM Workload Automation/Scheduler (IWA) is one of the most widely used workload automation tools in market. Our team is looking for a Product Manager to work alongside our IPP partner to evaluate opportunities, determine the features and outcomes that drive the greatest revenue for the products in our product portfolio and drive go to market. The IWA Product Manager will work with the product management team to influence and oversee the entire product lifecycle for IWA — working cross-functionally with the various teams involved in building and bringing the product to market. This position will work with our IPP partner to create and deploy competitive offerings. This position will also work with Sales to win new organic opportunities and help with competitive take out opportunities. This position will also have interactions with multiple customers, as well as cross-functional teams. Strong communication, strategic thinking, and organizational skills are key in this role.Product Managers are responsible for defining business problems, user experiences / pain points, competitive intelligence, market financials including size, growth rate, market share percentage, and identifying market trends.
As a Product Manager, you will:
• Utilize Continuous Discovery Habits and Design Thinking to solve customer problems in innovative ways.
• Engage customers to capture feedback, develop insights, evangelize, and educate
• Work collaboratively with IBM's IPP partner to create differentiated product and customer experiences.
• Identify discrete segments within our customer base. Define user value proposition and experience roadmaps.
• Collaborate and communicate with other Product Managers in planning processes and coordinate product execution.
• Maintain an end-to-end business plan for products in market (including pricing); set detailed direction and priorities across disciplines and monitor follow-through.
• Manage products in market and propose ideas to respond to market feedback / changes.
• Conduct, perform and analyze market research to identify new opportunities including competitive research, analyst reports making strategic recommendations for future product direction.
• Determine pricing, marketing communication strategy, identify routes to market, and be responsible for enabling the channels working with Go-To-Market teams.
• Works across all stages of product lifecycle from product definition, planning, release, modifications, maintenance, and market response.Successful candidates will possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and a user-centric viewpoint.