Senior Product Manager, API Management
Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior Product Manager with deep expertise in AI and API Management, to help shape the future of IBM's AI & API Management portfolio. Our flagship offering, IBM API Connect has a large install base and 10 years of "leader" ratings from industry analysts. This role focuses on articulating our core AI & API Management strategy, refining it with stakeholders both internal and external, and driving it back into delivery and execution.
You will combine integration, AI, and software engineering subject-matter expertise with strong product management skills to translate market needs into scalable software capabilities. The ideal candidate understands the nuances of software engineering, security, integration, the business pressures facing our customers in a variety of industries and can envision the changes in these fields being brought on by a generational shift in technology.
This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution: scanning the environment and researching market forces, crafting the vision, testing and refining the roadmap, and working with a cross-functional team to ensure successful delivery.
• Craft the product vision and strategy for IBM's API Management portfolio.
• Work with senior leadership to ensure alignment across business functions.
• Coordinate portfolio submissions for analyst review cycles.
• Own pricing and packaging for IBM API Management offerings.
• Own the relationships with other IBM offerings that bundle API Management.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• 10+ years of professional experience, with at least 5 years of increasing responsibility in enterprise software product management and/or software engineering.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, sales, support, and professional services).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Deep knowledge of REST APIs, Event Driven Architecture, and GraphQL.
• Experience delivering successful SaaS services with public-facing APIs.
• Hands-on experience with vibe coding, MCP, and/or AI Gateways.
• Demonstrated success in working with top tier IT analysts.
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Business.
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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.
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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
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.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
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