AI Technology Lead Technical Product Manager in Business Automation

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Lead Technical Product Manager for AI Technology within IBM's Business Automation platform. This is a strategic role focused on driving innovation across the Business Automation portfolio with AI and AI agent technology to evolve the portfolio to address new ways of building automation solutions. In this role you will lead the AI innovation strategy for the portfolio, setting direction and working across multiple products .

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: As a member of the cross-portfolio technical product management team, you will serve as a leading voice of cross-portfolio AI strategy, align multiple portfolio stakeholders, deliver valuable outcomes, and realize the intended impacts.
• Strategic Vision: Drive the vision for how we need to evolve our products around AI, creating and sharing cross-portfolio strategic guidance to shape product vision and roadmaps aligned with IBM's business goals.
• Act as the Business Automation AI Technical Evangelist within the team and externally.
• Deliver memorable, focused, and engaging high-impact demos that highlight cross-portfolio, singular use cases.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to gather insights, validate messaging, and amplify the value of our solutions.
• Contribute to the cross-portfolio strategic roadmap, helping define pathways to a unified platform vision.
• Conduct competitive technical analysis and market comparisons to inform product positioning and differentiation.
• Define Success Metrics: Define and track KPIs to measure product success and inform future iterations.
• Agile Team Facilitation: Foster an Agile team environment, maximizing productivity throughout the entire product development lifecycle.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of experience in product management, technical marketing, or solution engineering.
• Strong technical skills in practical applications of AI / agents and process-automation technologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable engaging both technical and executive audiences.
• Proven ability to create compelling product demos, blogs and customer-facing content.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software, platforms, and cross-product integration.
• Experience with competitive analysis and market research.
• Strong organizational skills: Ability to properly organize, maintain and prioritize multiple cross-functional tasks.
• Adaptability: A proactive and flexible attitude, with a strong desire to learn and grow in a product management role.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, software engineering, data science, operations, or related product/process management fields.

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX

Job ID: IBM-48256

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-23T11:46:08