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Introduction

We are seeking a highly strategic and technically deep Senior Product Manager to lead the long-term vision, modernization, and evolution of Apptio’s core Data Platform.

In this role, you will serve as the single-threaded owner for the Product strategy. You will define the future architecture of the modeling platform, drive foundational investments across data pipelines and computation, and lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, implementation, and customer-facing teams.

You must blend domain expertise, product strategy excellence, strong customer empathy, and the technical depth to work closely with engineers on data platforms, computation engines, and configurable enterprise systems.

This is a high-influence role for a product leader who thrives on solving complex system-level problems at scale.

 

Your role and responsibilities
  • Own and articulate the long-term vision for the Product.
  • Define and execute a multi-year strategy for platform modernization, including computation engine re-architecture, data ingestion scaling, and UX simplification.
  • Translate complex modeling, financial, and data management needs into clear requirements, themes, and architectural epics.
  • Lead deep customer discovery across practitioners, implementation teams, and enterprise financial organizations to identify systemic challenges.
  • Own prioritization for high-impact investments that improve performance, scalability, maintainability, and customer configurability.
  • Partner closely with engineering and design to deliver on product requirements.
  • Serve as a senior product voice with executive customers, partners, and industry leaders.
  • Partner with other Apptio PM leaders to build unified product experiences across the platform.
  • Align engineering, architecture, design, and go-to-market teams behind cohesive strategic outcomes.
  • Monitor industry trends and convert insights into platform direction.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 6 plus years of product management experience, including extensive experience owning complex enterprise platforms.
  • Strong domain expertise in TBM, ITFM, FinOps, enterprise cost modeling, or equivalent financial/operational modeling systems.
  • Deep experience with data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, data ingestion, and enterprise data management.
  • Familiarity with computation engines, rule-based allocation systems, and platform configuration frameworks.
  • Proven ability to define multi-year product strategy and influence across senior engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate complex system interactions to both executives and highly technical stakeholders.

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.

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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

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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 500 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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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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.

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.