Product Manager at IBM

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

This role is for someone who has prior experience in the cybersecurity space with expertise in secrets management, static/dynamic secrets, PKI, compliance, threat monitoring, and is familiar with enterprise SDLC and loves to interact with large customers and their complex use cases & requirements.

Your Responsibilities:

• Perform market and competitive analysis, develop insights and contribute to the overall product vision & strategy

• Prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from customer, field teams, community practitioners and other internal & external stakeholders

• Author detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill user/market research into requirements for engineering to deliver

• Collaborate with engineering, design, PMM, and other internal stakeholders to execute on high customer impact product initiatives

• Keep field teams (SEs, account managers, SMEs etc) and Marketing updated on feature releases and keep Engineering informed on feature requests

• Help with Sales and Marketing enablement to educate on the product story and features (website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)

• Assist field teams with customer conversations, roadmap presentations, demos etc

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of product management experience with a enterprise security product

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to organize multiple stakeholders towards a common goal

• Analytical with the ability to prioritize and make tradeoffs

• Strong technical acumen, with a solid understanding of privileged access, IAM, cloud and the security space in general

• Proven approach to delivering products with an eye toward End-User Experience

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Defining the product roadmap and strategy

• Writing product requirements documents (PRDs)

• Deep collaboration with Engineering teams

• Leading sales engineer and support education sessions

• Enabling the community and partner contributions

• Conduct customer interviews

• Perform market research

• Backlog management

IBM 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.