Apptio - Senior Product Manager - IBM

Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job - it's 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 you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk. Your Role and Responsibilities At IBM Cloudability, we deliver a best-in-class FinOps platform that helps customers enable their IT, finance, and DevOps teams to work together to optimize cloud resources for speed, cost, and quality. We are looking for outcome-focused, strategic thinkers to join our Product management team to help us continue to drive those customer results. The Cloudability Product Management team is accountable to numerous stakeholders including customers, partners, engineering, sales, product marketing, and support, globally. This position will be responsible for leading our commitment automation products, enabling IBM Cloudability to continue to deliver outstanding results for our customers and expanding what we can deliver to continue to help our customers optimize their public cloud spend. What you'll do: + Lead the strategy, customer discovery, and execution of Cloudability's commitment automation platform, Cloudability Savings Automation while working closely with other product managers, engineers, customer success to ensure successful outcomes. + Responsible for understanding the customer requirements along translating strategy into clear tactical priorities with measurable outcomes + Act as a consultant and SME to various sales engineers and peers and help in understanding solutions and feature behavior for various business use cases.??? + Participate in most phases of Product Development Life Cycle discovering, delivering and launching solutions to help customers meet their business objectives.? + Architect and implement methodologies and test approaches that validate features and that ensure accuracy of quality requirements.? + Develop performance benchmarks, monitor feature usage & test the software deployments to establish performance baselines to meet response time & scalability requirements.? + Interface with the market, customers, and prospects to understand pain points and?opportunities for innovation + Work across Delivery consultants, Sales, Support and Marketing to gather feedback and?clarify product capabilities and strategy.? + Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends. What you'll bring: + A customer-centric focus on how to deliver business value with a keen understanding of the IT enterprise ecosystem + Ability to solve open ended and ambiguous problems + Enjoy working with highly technical customers and team members.? + Proven ability to work with sales and sales engineering teams. + Proven ability to work with development teams in large scale agile environments + Proven ability to work with large enterprise customers?and executives. + Demonstrated ability to work independently. + Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. + Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to make recommendations and measure success. Required Technical and Professional Expertise + At minimum 5 years of technical software product management experience or equivalent developer experience + Strong communication and collaboration skills + Strong technical acumen + FinOps experience or strong experience in the major cloud provider's commitment-based discounts Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise Experience managing automation products 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 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. 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.