Product Manager - Databand

696376BR

Introduction

The Data Fabric portfolio inside IBM Software’s Data and AI unit is a group of strategic products which are vital to the success of IBM’s AI and Hybrid cloud strategy. Within this portfolio include established IBM brands with thousands of customers using market leading products as IBM Datastage, IBM Data Replication, IBM Knowledge Catalog, and IBM Master Data Management, as well as recently acquired brands in emerging categories: IBM Databand for data observability, and IBM Manta for data and business lineage. Together, these products enable effective data management practices for delivering high quality data products against dependable SLAs.

Here’s Where You Come In

The IBM Databand product team is currently hiring a Product Manager to lead one of its core missions of bringing new and innovative solutions to mitigate data issues through detection, communication and resolution for data engineers. In this role, you will lead a cross-functional product team that delivers against product metrics and drive execution of your roadmap from vision, to design, and implementation for your team in IBM Databand.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As Product Manager, You Will

• Lead the full product lifecycle, from discovery and design, through MVP definition, experimentation, and KPI definition
• Work with our engineers and designers, lead the process and create the best user experience for our customers
• Drive roadmap and conduct competitive research
• Maintain a north star metric and KPIs for your team which align with the broader portfolio business objectives and strategy
• Communicate across the org to increase the adoption, usage, and impact of the team’s features
  
  

Additionally, you will work closely with various stakeholders outside the product team to validate our bets and capture customer feedback from groups such as professional services, sales, customer success management, and our business partner community.

Role

Ideal candidates for this role are individuals who flourish in a high-performance environment and cultivate the same from peers and respective teams. In addition, they are:

• Strong communicators who can engage across multiple stakeholders to clearly articulate high-priority work in a value-centric context. Candidates should be well-balanced across all forms of communication: verbal, visual, and written
• Relentlessly passionate about product design, user experience, and implementing features with minimal complexity
• Skilled at breaking down high-level initiatives into actionable work items which can be delivered through product development lifecycle
• Skilled at work prioritization and backlog management
• Stewards of process and practices but not to the point of conformity where it can impact business value and team productivity
  
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Who are you?

• 3+ years experience in product management or equivalent experience delivering enterprise software.
• 3+ years experience in wireframing, designing user flows, and building a roadmap that solves user’s problems.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

You will Have an advantage if:

• 5+ years experience in product management or equivalent experience delivering enterprise software which includes:
• Market competitive analysis and go-to-market strategy
• Engaging with key product stakeholders at varying levels - including customers (users, mid-level managers, and executives), product analysts, and business partners
• Working with modern data management techniques (e.g. Warehouses, Lakes, Lakehouses)
• Modern data engineering processes and tools (e.g. Airflow, Dbt, Spark)
• Working with market-leading low code/no code ETL platforms (e.g. Datastage, Informatica, Data Factory)
• Delivering value-centric outcomes using industry-leading design thinking practices (e.g. IBM Design Thinking, Google Design Thinking)
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

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About IBM

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Location Statement

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