Product Manager, IBM Power Virtual Server

business priorities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, development, user experience, marketing, sales, and operations to ensure your product is relevant, acceptable and profitable

• Conduct market research to identify customer needs, industry trends, create TCO studies, and competitive landscape

• Collaborate with Pricing and Finance on pricing strategy

• Making Analysis and business cases to justify required investment with revenue projections

• Lead the delivery of Product Management milestones like features/enhancements/depreciations/pricing action etc through - Playback 0, Commit pitch, Launch Readiness etc

• Monitor and analyze product performance metrics

• Collaborate with Design, Development, and Product Management team to bring 3-in-a-box concept

• Work closely with the GTM team to contribute in defining GTM strategy for various geos

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in cloud technology.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Good Understanding of IBM POWER/PowerVS, x86 and various compute technologies

• Experience with server sizing, pricing, configuration creation, and TCO tools

• Familiarity with enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle etc

• Experience with any of the following IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP etc preferred

• 3-5 years of product management experience with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings

• Experience driving high growth business, new product introduction with strong focus on establishing credibility in the market

• Knowledge of the cloud infrastructure market segment - technologies, best practices, vendors, and competitive landscape

• Hands-on, data-driven approach, and an ability to work concurrently on several projects

• Cross-functional leadership experience across development, operations, design, support, sales, product marketing, marketing, and partners

• Experience with creating presentations and presenting to internal teams and clients

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Knowledge of IBM Power Virtual Server and Competitive analysis experience

• IBM Cloud or other IaaS certification

• Familiarity with SAP, Oracle sizing

• Knowledge of SaaS or IaaS platforms, or knowledge of AWS or Azure IaaS platforms

• Bachelor's degree in technology or related field preferred

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