Senior Product Manager - Cloud Networking & Data Streaming

IBM Computing; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Networking team to help make connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient so users can focus on building streaming apps rather than managing infrastructure.

You will own major initiatives from conception to launch and ensure engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to trade off, build the right product, and grow it in the market.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager focused on cloud technologies.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise-grade products as a product manager, engineer or solutions architect.
• Experience building, writing, maintaining and defending a clear product roadmap and backlog backed by user stories and customer research.
• Excellent analytical, communication & collaboration skills.
• Ability to build relationships with coworkers and customers located around the world.
• Demonstrated ability to drive business outcomes through product changes.

Responsibilities

• Understand our users: Conduct interviews and analyze data to define personas, user journeys, and key jobs to be done.
• Drive crucial aspects of Confluent Cloud Network Roadmap supporting Confluent Cloud services like Kafka, Flink, Connectors, Data Governance, etc with a heavy focus on user experience and cost efficiency.
• Define flexible interfaces powering API, CLI and Terraform, data models, and processes and launch a variety of new network options and rapidly iterate on existing ones
• Be responsible for the whole lifecycle: Drive multi-team, cross-functional initiatives from conception through initial delivery and ongoing iteration after launch.
• Close the loop: Define quantitative and qualitative targets, measure performance against them, share results with stakeholders, and incorporate those learnings into the product.
• Manage complexity: Deliver value while handling the surprises and challenges of a quickly evolving product, ambitious partnership targets, and a rapidly growing organization.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Roadmap & backlog

Analytical skills

Communication & collaboration

Stakeholder management

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Networking team to help make connectivity to and from Confluent Cloud reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient so users can focus on building streaming apps rather than managing infrastructure.

You will own major initiatives from conception to launch and ensure engineering, design, sales, and marketing have what they need to trade off, build the right product, and grow it in the market.