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Introduction

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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 serves a diverse set of global stakeholders, including customers, partners, engineering, sales, product marketing, and support. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and accelerating our shift-left strategy for our FinOps solution. You will oversee and execute strategic initiatives to deliver value and drive successful outcomes for all stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead the development of DevOps integration features by collaborating with engineering, documentation, and design teams.
  • Translate customer requirements and business strategy into clear tactical priorities with measurable outcomes.
  • Act as a subject matter expert (SME) to support sales engineers and internal teams in understanding solutions for various business use cases.
  • Interface with the market, customers, and prospects to uncover pain points and opportunities for innovation, using this feedback to inform the product strategy.
  • Facilitate discovery sessions with customers and stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements, converting them into a high-quality engineering backlog.
  • Deliver presentations detailing the value proposition and technical stack of features, collaborating with software architects to develop solutions.
  • Collaborate with developers to ensure alignment between product features and acceptance criteria, troubleshooting and resolving issues as they arise.
  • Work across teams—Delivery, Sales, Support, and Marketing—to gather feedback, refine strategy, and provide content to ensure feature adoption and success.
  • Stay updated on cloud native technologies to ensure product relevance and competitiveness.

 

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 education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 5+ years of experience in product management, particularly in software, cloud, or infrastructure-focused roles.
  • 2+ years of experience with DevOps or infrastructure software, with a strong emphasis on container technologies and cloud-native environments.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps pipeline tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, Cloudformation.
  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in complex situations, solving custom problems and navigating ambiguous environments to drive clarity and outcomes.
  • Strong technical acumen, with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling effective engagement with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • FinOps experience or familiarity with cloud financial management practices.
  • Expertise in Cloud Cost billing and usage analytics for major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).

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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