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Your role and responsibilities

The Program Manager for University Programs is able to design and execute programs that builds awareness and learning outcomes around IBM technologies. The program manager is able to design compelling frameworks to mobilize leaders at IBM and university stakeholders (university leaders, department heads, faculty, undergraduate or masters students) into highly engaged communities. This is a role with global scope.

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Designing programs and operations to effectively drive adoption of IBM technologies at universities

  • Building experiences that meet learning needs for university audiences globally

  • Designing programs that have operational rigor and are designed for scale

  • Managing external stakeholders including non-profit partners, vendors, and influencers

  • Collaborating with internal executives and stakeholders in technology platform, content, and other cross-functional teams

  • Reporting program metrics and driving continuous improvements based on lessons learned

 

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Successful track record of setting up and running large-scale programs with universities around the world

  • Strong experience in program management including launching and scaling programs, managing stakeholders and operations

  • Familiarity with generative AI, Kubernetes, and related cloud technologies

  • Entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to stretch the role, constantly reimagining what it can deliver

  • Ability to work effectively across timezones

  • Strong English language proficiency

  • Ability to collaborate with current and potential partners, ecosystem colleagues, and fellow marketers to learn, co-create, and share feedback

  • Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Successful track record of setting up and running large-scale programs with universities around the world

  • Strong experience in program management including launching and scaling programs, managing stakeholders and operations

  • Familiarity with generative AI, Kubernetes, and related cloud technologies

  • Entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to stretch the role, constantly reimagining what it can deliver

  • Ability to work effectively across timezones

  • Strong English language proficiency

  • Ability to collaborate with current and potential partners, ecosystem colleagues, and fellow marketers to learn, co-create, and share feedback

  • Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization

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.

 

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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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