Your role and responsibilities
As a Product Manager Intern, you will own outcomes. This will include:
· Working closely with customers and other market experts to define capabilities that are needed for their success and support our business strategy.
· Work closely with peer product managers in defining and driving product/business strategy for the IBM Software products portfolio to achieve business revenue targets and increase market share in a growing market.
· Work closely with Design to concept delightful user experiences using narratives and well-baked requirements.
· Work closely with Development to document requirements, groom the backlog, forecast releases, plan iterations, and deliver high quality product to end users.
· Develop effective demos for sellers and sales engineers (e.g., client technical professionals)
· Collaborate with CTPs, sellers, CSMs, Expert Labs, technology partners and business partners.
· 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:
· 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 Life Cycle.
· 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 education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields.
· Pursuing MBA course from reputed Business School.
· Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence people and establish relationships / build rapport with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred technical and professional experience
· Understanding of product roadmaps, end-to-end lifecycles, release cadence, and support.
· Experience in customer-driven usability and hypothesis-driven experimentation.
· A deep passion for innovation and creating data-backed solutions.
