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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.
- 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.
- 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).