Product Manager

Sales & Field Enablement

• Develop and maintain enablement kits (battlecards, conversation guides, win wires, prospecting decks, Seismic content).
• Drive adoption and usage of enablement across sales and partner teams.
• Support strategic deals with tailored positioning and insights.

Growth & Adoption

• Shape product-led growth (PLG) motions: trials, freemium flows, instrumentation dashboards.
• Monitor adoption KPIs, conversion funnels, and trial-to-paid performance.
• Partner with Product, SRE, and Growth PMs on trial experience and customer journey improvements.

Competitive & Market Intelligence

• Own competitive intelligence: battlecards, win/loss analysis, trend reports.
• Deliver market insights to influence roadmap and executive decision-making.
• Track emerging competitors, pricing models, and GTM strategies.

Partner & Ecosystem Alignment

• Drive Business Partner enablement and joint GTM plays.
• Support partner pipeline creation and regional growth initiatives.
• Ensure consistency of messaging across partner, sales, and marketing channels.

Required education

Master's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 6-10 years in Product Management, Outbound PM, Growth PM, or GTM Strategy, with experience in enterprise SaaS, Integration, APIs, or cloud technologies.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across Sales, Marketing, Product, and Engineering, while working effectively with global teams.
• Strong strategic thinking: understanding market landscapes, defining positioning and differentiation, shaping GTM strategies, and aligning roadmaps.
• Solid customer and market understanding: persona development, journey mapping, interpreting feedback, and building advocacy.
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills: able to simplify complex technology and translate features into business value.
• Data-driven approach: funnel analysis, usage tracking, experimentation, and metrics-based decision-making.
• Program leadership: skilled in launch planning, milestone tracking, and managing risks.
• Collaborative and growth-oriented mindset: able to influence without authority, prioritize with clarity, and move initiatives forward with a bias for action.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience in competitive and market intelligence: competitor research, win/loss analysis, and synthesizing insights to shape GTM and roadmap.
• Technical fluency in integration technologies: familiarity with integration patterns, APIs, messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and B2B protocols, with the ability to connect technical features to customer value.
• Background in middleware or hybrid integration platforms (e.g., iPaaS, ESB) is a strong plus.
• Exposure to instrumentation tools (Amplitude, Segment) and growth funnels.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-55023

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-03T18:48:53