What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at IBM?
Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
IBM Quantum Safe has developed a product in collaboration with the IBM Guardium security software brand. This product is generally available for clients. There are a number of features that are to be added to this product based on a market driven product roadmap. The role of the product manager will be to help shape the roadmap based on client and market needs , from market research, and our own technical point of view and experiences gained from client engagements.
Some of the responsibilities of this role will include :
Gain and maintain a very good understanding of what competitive capabilities exist within the market landscape in the Quantum Safe area
Develop competitive and market driven insights on Quantum Safe
Establish constructs and processes to identify market needs and to prioritize them for product
Drive and support agile product development practices
Establish constructs and processes for sourcing desired capabilities from external market, IBM Research, IBM Software, client engagements or internal QS engineering team
Strike the right balance among Design, Business and Technology to ensure consumability of the product
Provide product requirements to the engineering team and work hand-in-hand with the engineering leader to drive quality and timely deliverables / product features
Engages in marketing of the product
Explore and engage in external alliances and partnership as appropriate
Evangelize product capabilities at industry events, conferences, etc.
Collaborate across IBM Business Units to drive synergies in product capabilities as well as in consumption of product across all BUs
Organize user groups and solicit on going feedback that will ensure that the product continues to remain relevant to the field
Required technical and professional expertise
Minimum of 10-12 years of relevant industry experience
Technical expertise and experience in cybersecurity and cryptography
Deep knowledge of IBM products and services
Knowledge of Quantum Computing fundamentals
Team leadership, coaching, mentoring
Preferred technical and professional experience
Experience as a product manager or in similar discipline
People management experience
