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Introduction

The product manager, of XaaS workloads and solutions offerings management will play critical role in driving the growth of the IBM Systems XaaS business. The offering leader in this position will partner with offerings leaders across Storage, Power, TLS, competitive intelligence team, corporate strategy, cloud team, GTM including sales, partners to establish and execute the IBM as a service workloads and solutions roadmap enabling IBM to win in new as a service segment.  

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will own product management activities in developing and delivering the XaaS workloads and solutions roadmaps in conjunction with other product leaders across IBM. You will be responsible for driving the strategy and roadmap for key investment areas & building the right solution for market lead portfolio per function.

You will play a broad role including both inbound tasks (establishing workload and solutions proposals including business plans, defining strategic requirements, detailed requirement, design features, prioritization of backlog, etc) and outbound activities (creating marketing collateral, socializing product vision, enabling go to market teams and the like). The team will consist of technical product managers, product owners focused on XaaS workloads, and solutions.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required Professional and Technical Expertise
  • Lead and drive the strategy for delivering outcome driven product/solutions in a portfolio.
  • Work in close cooperation with the Product Management Executive team, other executives, peers and cross-functional colleagues to meet existing and evolving product and business objectives.
  • Develop the value proposition, target customer segments, and business case model (market share, P&L, etc) to deliver innovative products to market for a product portfolio.
  • Lead any required business and financial planning including working with IBM Finance to develop plans to meet financial objectives.
  • Understand the market/customer needs and be able to develop roadmap for delivering differentiated capabilities. Provide direction to IBM Marketing to ensure effective messaging.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders (engineering, marketing, GTM, Sales) on the portfolio strategy and management from conception to delivery to the market. Work with the program management leads to execute and deliver on launches.
  •  Integrate Business Partners to scale business for portfolio.
  • At least 5 years upline management experience in SW development and/or product (offering) management.
  •  Experience with Agile Development and Design Thinking.
  •  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field of study.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Experience speaking with and presenting to customers, both pre- and post-sales
Preferred technical and professional experience
Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise
  • MBA or advanced degree in computer science or Engineering
  • Experience in XaaS “Everything as a service” model
  • Foundational knowledge of data storage and data protection.
  • Foundational knowledge of Power Systems
  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing and cloud services.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM 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), 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


We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.


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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.