Principal Product Manager - IBM SevOne

Introduction

IBM is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive our product integration strategy across IBM's observability, network performance, and automation portfolio-including SevOne NPM, Instana and other products . You'll shape the roadmap and deliver seamless, scalable integrations that accelerate time-to-value for enterprise customers navigating increasingly complex environments.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role for a visionary product strategist passionate about observability platforms

Your role and responsibilities

As Principal Product Manager for IBM SevOne, you will:

• Own and execute the integration strategy for the IBM SevOne platform, ensuring consistent, scalable integration patterns across offerings.
• Define and prioritize a product roadmap to accelerate out-of-the-box integrations with key IBM and third-party platforms.
• Lead customer discovery to understand integration pain points and build reusable frameworks, connectors, etc
• Collaborate deeply with engineering, design, sales and customer success teams to deliver intuitive integration workflows and developer experiences while advancing on the usability of the IBM SevOne platform
• Drive metrics for integration adoption, time-to-integration, and ecosystem expansion.
• Support Product marketing and GTM teams with enablement content, reference architectures, and technical documentation.
• Lead Roadmap presentations with customers to explain the value proposition of the Product.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ Years in Product management, with at least 2 years in a Principal or lead role.
• In lieue of 5 years of experience in Product management, 7+ years in the Observability space is acceptable.
• Deep understanding of Network Monitoring, Observability principles and the observability competitive landscale in general.
• Strong technical aptitude - able to understand architecture trade-offs and communicate effectively with engineers.
• Exceptional collaboration and influence skills across PM, engineering, design, and field teams.
• Experience with enterprise IT ecosystems such as monitoring, automation, or cloud-native infrastructure.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Prior experience with IBM SevOne or competitive observability platforms preferred.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, gNMI, Public Cloud environments( GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Background in building observability platforms from the ground up to taking it to market.

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

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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.

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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 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.

Client-provided location(s): Lowell, MA

Job ID: IBM-50748

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-11T15:49:19