Principal Product Manager - Mainframe Agentics

BMC Software, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the AI-enabled Mainframe Agentics within the AMI portfolio. You will define the product strategy, roadmap, and execution, collaborating with Engineering, UX, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and Partners to translate customer problems into AI-driven solutions.

This role requires 10+ years in SaaS product management, deep AI knowledge, and strong executive communication, with a remote-friendly setup in the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product Management experience in SaaS enterprise software.
• Deep understanding of AI, Generative AI, and autonomous systems.
• Experience with observability, automation, AIOps, or IT operations platforms.
• Strong knowledge of mainframe operations, systems management, or enterprise infrastructure.
• Data-driven decision making and product analytics expertise.
• Experience defining platform APIs, integrations, and ecosystem strategies.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Mainframe Agentics product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Drive commercialization of AI across the AMI portfolio.
• Partner with customers and industry leaders to validate use cases and direction.
• Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans for new capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional teams through product discovery, development, launch, and adoption.
• Establish success metrics and monitor customer adoption, retention, and business impact.
• Represent the product strategy to executives, customers, analysts, and partners.

Skills

Product management

AI / Generative AI

SaaS

Data analytics

Executive communication

Tools

APIs

Analytics platforms

Job description

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

This role can be based remotely in United Kingdom

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Description and Requirements

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Mainframe Agentics team, leading the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for agentic AI capabilities within BMC's AMI portfolio.

In this role, you'll be responsible for defining and delivering AI-powered agents that improve mainframe operations, observability, automation, incident resolution, performance optimization, and developer productivity. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, UX, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and Partners, to identify customer problems, prioritize investments, and bring innovative AI-driven solutions to market.

If you’re passionate about translating emerging AI technologies into differentiated customer value while ensuring alignment with corporate growth objectives and the long-term AMI product strategy – this is the role for you!

Key responsibilities include

• Define and own the Mainframe Agentics product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Drive commercialization of AI and autonomous agent capabilities across the AMI portfolio.
• Partner with customers and industry leaders to validate use cases and product direction.
• Develop business cases, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans for new capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional teams through product discovery, development, launch, and adoption.
• Establish success metrics and monitor customer adoption, retention, and business impact.
• Represent the product strategy to executive leadership, customers, analysts, and partners.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Management experience in SaaS enterprise software environments.
• Deep understanding of AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and autonomous systems.
• Experience with observability, automation, AIOps, or IT operations platforms.
• Strong knowledge of mainframe operations, systems management, or enterprise infrastructure.
• Data-driven decision making and product analytics expertise.
• Experience defining platform APIs, integrations, and ecosystem strategies.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to launch.

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is £ 84,825 - £ 141,375

We use AI technology to support parts of our recruitment process, but people—not algorithms—make all final hiring decisions. AI may assist with tasks like scheduling, screening for role alignment, or helping us manage large volumes of applications more efficiently. However, candidates are reviewed by a member of our recruitment team, and interviews and hiring decisions are always made by people. We’re committed to ensuring that technology enhances fairness, efficiency, and the candidate experience—never replaces genuine human judgment.