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Introduction

Ready to re-imagine the product management role? At IBM, as an Offering Manager, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering: from validating the need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements. Going beyond the traditional focus of timetables and budgets, you use your keen insights into what customers want in their business plan - and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to a problem. If being the CEO of your offering excites you, consider an offering management career at IBM.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Product Manager in Software Networking, you will focus on execution, and will enable cross-functional teams to deliver on internal and external commitments, while encouraging a culture of predictability and supporting an innovative spirit.

You will ensure seamless coordination of stakeholders across program variables, generating a shared understanding of deliverables and timelines.

As an ideal candidate for this position, you thrive given the opportunity to implement product management rigor, are adept at breaking down complex problems into actionable steps, and have impeccable time and program management skills. You are pragmatic, highly proactive with a strong sense of urgency, and superb follow-through, and bring an intrinsic flexibility to manage programs under different scenarios. You are a problem solver searching for a fast-paced, innovative environment where you'll have the chance to grow. .

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in cross-functional program operations, across delivery life cycle phases (methodology agnostic), and project planning for a dynamic Product Engineering organization

• Ability to understand, or willingness to learn, technology concepts and interface with software and infrastructure engineers; prior experience collaborating with technologists is necessary

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a sufficient level of technical capability to effectively communicate with engineers on product scope and technical risks

• Experience working across multiple development teams

• Demonstrated comfort with remote communication culture. Can facilitate effectively with distributed teams

• Meticulously organized, with strong attention to detail and understanding of intricate cross-dependencies

• Works well with ambiguity and is naturally inclined to drive clarity

• A natural influencer who drives successful outcomes without direct authority

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Working knowledge of SCRUM, Agile, or Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) methodologies

• IBM Oasis, Clearing House, Aha and Jira experience beneficial

• Experience gathering and analysing business & functional requirements across multiple stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet critical business needs

• Experience in a fast-paced environment

About Business UnitIBM 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 @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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.

Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.