Product Manager, Compilation Technologies and Enterprise Products
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're looking for a Product Manager with a strong foundation in product ownership, business strategy, or application development, and a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience.
This role is ideal for individuals who blend technical expertise with customer-centric thinking to drive meaningful product decisions. You'll play a key role in shaping IBM's Compilation Technologies and Enterprise Products portfolio, focusing on business-critical application development and modernization. Your ability to connect technical capabilities with market needs will be essential in delivering innovative and impactful solutions.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead the strategic direction and execution of compiler or language product, or key modernization initiative.
- Drive growth and continuous improvement by aligning technical capabilities with customer needs, collaborating across design, development, and customer-facing teams, and applying deep domain expertise to shape IBM's enterprise modernization strategy.
- Lead product ideation, roadmap development, and release planning leveraging business insights
- Analyze market trends and customer feedback to refine product plan or strategy.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and ensure clear, consistent communication across development, design, sales, and adjacent product teams to support strategic goals and seamless execution.
- Support pre-sales and post-sales activities, providing product expertise to clients and partners.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in product management.
- Strong background in product management, business strategy development, or application development.
- Demonstrate success in conducting original market research, developing product strategy, and delivering end-to-end solutions in Agile environments.
- Demonstrate understanding of business and technical concepts, software architectures, or enterprise technology solutions.
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders in all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrate strong leadership by aligning cross-functional teams around a shared product vision.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Ability to apply strong business acumen to develop compelling product business cases that align with strategic objectives and drive investment decisions.
- Hands-on experience in developing applications on IBM Z, with familiarity in z/OS environment, and development practices.
- Good understanding of programming languages, DevOps practices, and AI strategies, with the ability to align product decisions to evolving enterprise technology trends and application modernization goals.
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.
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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 500 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 qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
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