Product Manager

3. Design and development of Freemium software offerings

Product Managers (PM) operate in a demanding role at the epicenter of multidisciplinary teams which

include design, engineering, sales, marketing, finance and legal. In this role, you'll play a central role

leading and orchestrating the definition of product requirements and go-to-market strategy to solve data challenges of enterprise and mid-market clients. This role requires collaboration and coordination across internal and external teams and will be visible at the highest levels of our organization.

What you'll do:

Work with cross-functional teams in marketing, operations, demand generation, development, services, and sales to indenitfy and implemement key growth strategies.
Create dashboards to track progress and outcomes.

Own the PLG workstream.

Work with peers to design and build a freemium product offering to maximize customer adoption and business value with the product.

Work with development and testing teams to define clear, accomplishable requirements for new

growth functionality.

Use a combination of customer data and market research to prioritize new growth strategies.

Ensure field teams have the content and context necessary to help customers leverage all

functionality (new and existing) in your defined area.

Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.

What you'll bring:

A customer-centric focus on how to deliver business value with a keen understanding of the IT

enterprise ecosystem

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.

Proven ability to work with marketing and demand generation teams.

Proven ability to work with large enterprise customers and executives.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

7+ years of experience working with any of the following:

• Product Led Growth Initiatives

• Go to Market Strategies

• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, etc.)

• Container Platforms (Kubernetes)

• Infrastructure as Code / DevOps Tooling

5+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT solutions (infrastructure,

monitoring, management, maintenance etc)

Demonstrated experience driving product ownership and growth

Experience in Product Management with an technical/engineering background

Preferred technical and professional experience

5+ years of product management experience managing enterprise IT products (infrastructure,

monitoring, management, maintenance etc)

Proven experience driving large product growth on a cloud focused platform or product

Keen understanding of enterprise best practices of cloud and kubernetes management- tagging,

resourcing, provisioning, scaling, and optimizing

A deep understanding of the cloud and kubernetes industry trends and technology stacks (sql, app

service environments, serverless, containers)

Insight into how to delight enterprise IT users who are invested in the public cloud and kubernetes

technology stacks and are struggling with scale, manageability, complexity, cost, and performance

issues

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Client-provided location(s): Cochin, India

Job ID: IBM-76419

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-11T18:57:35