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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

Are you a seasoned Product Manager or Product Architect with a proven track record of successful product ownership and growth? Colleagues regard you as someone who navigates customer outcomes, business impacts, and functional and technical 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 for Cost and Capital Management:

Effective usage of maintenance and operations funds along with capital investments in the assets that keep planes, trains, utility companies, renewable and power generation companies, manufacturers, and facilities running is critical across the world.  This is a Technical PM role for an individual that will leverage information in Maximo and tooling such as Apptio to continue transformation of the cost and capital management processes in Maximo Application Suite.  With the increasing capabilities of Generative AI, large language and time series models will provide you the ability to transform the cost and capital management that you will bring to our Maximo users.  In addition,

  • Subject Matter Expertise in Cost and Capital Management and Generative AI:

The ideal individual must have experience in the generation, aggregation, management and reporting of maintenance and operations costs and/or the capital planning and execution for large projects.  You would be expected to understand and ultimately own the on-going refinement of these processes.  The ideal individual will have experience using decision making tooling potentially even generative AI as these will be leveraged in Maximo, and have started to be applied to the cost and capital management processes.  Determination of the most critical customer needs, the multi-modal approach to address those needs, the business case for making the investment, and then the guidance of the design and development resources to create the offerings will be part of your responsibilities.

  • Customer, Partner and Peer Engagement:

Work with our customers, partners, and peer PM’s to identify and refine the prioritized use cases and associated products within the suite.  Collaborate on needs and the solutions we can provide to address the needs.  Collaborate with IBM Research as part of the definition and delivery against the AI usage within these usecases.

  • Agile Development Stewardship:

Work with development to define and address packaging needs and also support on-going development projects through SME knowledge of the technologies and the teams supporting them.  Work with development to support work management development work along with Generative AI development work.

  • Strategic Vision and Engagement:

Develop the vision and direction of our overall/collective MAS strategy, packaging, licensing, and commercial terms for the offering.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Subject Matter Expertise in Cost and Capital Management:

This is a Technical Product Manager role for an individual that has experience in asset management with awareness of the cost and capital management flows.  The expertise is needed to clearly define the usecases, identify and combine the technologies required for the solutions, and prioritize the capabilities into more competitive offerings for Maximo Application Suite.  Experience utilizing tooling such as Apptio for total cost of operations determination would be valuable.

  • Bringing Products to Market:

The optimal candidate will have experience in bringing solutions to asset management customers.  This is a fundamental capability for Maximo that is being revolutionized and we are seeking a candidate with existing experience to lead this work.

  • Stakeholder Management:

Cross functional collaboration & communication is key to the success of this role to ensure stakeholder expectations are managed given the constant balance between new features & ensuring a quality & stable product that continues to meet existing clients’ needs. The Product Manager role is part of the team that helps set the priorities for the development sprints, in collaboration with the development team.

  • End-to-End Product Development Expertise:

Work with product development to define and address packaging needs and also support on-going development projects through subject matter expertise of the technologies and the teams supporting them.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Subject Matter Expertise in Generative AI:

This is a Technical Product Manager role for an individual that has experience with creation or usage of Generative AI large language or time series models.  The expertise is needed to bring new insights and more effective decision making into more competitive offerings for Maximo Application Suite. 

  • Partnership Experience:

 Our products within IBM leverage multiple forms of partnership.  Experience in evaluating, establishing, and managing partnerships will contribute to success in the role.

  • Hybrid Cloud Products:

 The Maximo Application Suite product is provided as OnPremis and SaaS.  Experience with products that are sold and operated on both is important in the role.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM 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 @ IBM

In 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 IBM

IBM’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.

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