Senior Director Product Management - Mainframe - Remote

BMC Software, Inc.; Town of Chester (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, a leading enterprise software company, seeks a Sr. Director of Product Management to define product strategy and oversee a team of product managers. This remote role involves driving the AI strategy, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring customer satisfaction through compelling product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software product management leadership experience.
• Experience in a mainframe business environment.
• Knowledge in Cloud Object Storage and IT Operations.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and execution plan across a team of Product Managers.
• Drive AI strategy and integrated delivery across the product suite.
• Collaborate with marketing, development, and sales teams.

Skills

Product management

Design Thinking

Enterprise software

Communication skills

Cloud Object Storage

Secure Vault technologies

IT Operations

Gen AI / ML

Job description

This role can be based remotely in United States

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Description and Requirements

"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!"

We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud!

We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation!

The BMC product management team defines the future vision for the product line, analyzes business opportunities, specifies and prioritizes customer requirements, engages with product development teams, defines pricing, and supports successful commercial outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

As Sr. Director of Product Management within our Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation business unit, you will take responsibility for defining the strategy and execution plan across a team of Product Managers. You will understand and communicate business strategy and work with the product managers to create compelling, high value product roadmaps. This position has cross-portfolio responsibility for driving the AI strategy and integrated delivery across the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) suite of products of products, while also being responsible for significant multi-million dollar product business line lines across a number of key areas of the BMC mainframe portfolio. You will work with solutions marketing, development and QA, sales and pre-sales, and support teams to ensure that solutions are delivered to plan, the sales teams are enabled, and customers are satisfied.

The ideal candidate will also have had experience of using Design Thinking and client co-creation methodologies to deliver outcome centric products plans. Experience in driving transformation of Product Management practices as a change agent would also be a major plus.

To be successful with us you'll need serious and significant enterprise/B2B software product experience; polished and confident communications skills; a strong technical background; and be willing to travel up to 25% of the time. Knowledge and experience of the mainframe environment in a business context is a critical skill we are looking for.

To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

Product management skills and experience

• At least 7 years software product management leadership experience in enterprise/B2B software
• Demonstrable experience in a mainframe business environment.
• Knowledge and understanding in one or more areas of Cloud Object Storage, Secure Vault technologies, IT Operations and Gen AI / ML.
• Passion for engaging with customers and understanding their problems
• Demonstrated experience of client co-creation / Design Thinking methodologies and outcome centric product planning and execution
• Experience with complex sales processes, working with sales and presales staff
• Experience collaborating with marketing staff to ensure clear internal & external messaging
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Confidence in presenting to different types of audience externally and internally
• The ability to distil complex business and technical requirements into masterful, clear, concise requirements unambiguously prioritized

A great attitude

• The perseverance, energy, and understanding required to effect change in multiple areas
• The ability to move seamlessly between the 'big picture' and very low levels of technical and business detail

Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following skills:

• Leading teams in a Worldwide Organization
• Business Development / Channel Partnership

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!

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas!

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.

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.