We are looking for a hardworking Product Manager to join our passionate team at in Bangalore.
Growing your career as a Full Time Product Manager is a terrific opportunity to develop exceptional skills.
If you are solid in communication, creativity and have the right initiative for the job, then apply for the position of Product Manager at today!

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Product Manager you will be doing product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with Strategy, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the IBM’s overall strategy and goals.

As the product Manager, you will be expected to:

- Be the voice of customer
- Drive grouping and prioritization of customer requirements
- Work with the sales teams and customers to ensure products continually meet market requirements while maintaining business objectives
- Gather and analyse all available research and data sources to continually refine and improve all aspects of the product
- Coordinate with Sales and Marketing teams to develop go to market plan for assigned products or industry segments
- Work with Marketing to create product positioning and messaging for marketing activities
- Identify new market and product opportunities and define target market requirements, which create the foundation for the overall product strategy and roadmap
- Create business case and revenue projections for new features, products and services.
- Assist the finance department with pricing strategy for products and services based on growth and profitability objectives
- Monitor competitor capabilities, anticipate market conditions and present strategies for enhancing our leadership position

General Expectations
- Experience with Telco and Edge environments including networks and infrastructure management
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
- Have the ability to synthesize complex issues and opinions into simple stories
- Have the ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion in an iterative way
- Show attention to details, proactive self-starter

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- Overall 12+ years of experience with 8+ years on technical product management.
- Atleast 5+ years of relevant experience in defining Portfolio & Product Strategy catering to Telco's & Enterprises for SDN/NFV solutions




- Strong telecommunications knowledge with Proficient understanding of Virtualization, NFV/SDN, Network Slicing, Open stack, Kubernetes & Public Cloud Networking environments, etc.
- Deep technical familiarity with one or more of the following technologies
- Kubernetes networking, CNI, Exposure to any one of the CNIs like Calico, Flannel, Weave
- Openstack networking
- Virtual Router implementations - Data Plane using Linux Kernel, IPTables, kernel packet filters, eBPF, virtual ethernet drivers, general Linux Networking skills
- Tunneling technologies implementation. IPSec, GRE, VXLAN, IP over IP etc
- Control plane routing protocols - OSPF, ISIS, BGP
- Public cloud networking constructs, VPCs, Transit Gateways etc
- Data plane acceleration: DPDK, SRIOV, VPP
- Exposure working on Load Balancers, Web Proxies
- Exposure to implementing network packet monitoring frameworks : cFlow, sFlow, jFlow, NetFlow, IPFIX, OWAMP, TWAMP, other telemetry protocols
- Exposure to programmable api’s to network appliances : OpenFlow, NetConf, GRPC
- Exposure to services meshes (ISTIO) is a strong positive too, but not mandatory
- Exposure to SaaS software development using cloud native databases and messaging frameworks
- CI/CD experience for SaaS software development and continuous upgrades
- Site Reliability Engineering

- Ability to manage all associated activities throughout Product life cycle in collaboration with other functional groups (Sales, marketing, Finance, Engineering, Services, Partners etc)
- Experience in generating Product collaterals - whitepapers, technical product marketing, development of pricing models, Market research and competitive analysis
- Product Management expertise with ability to build internal and external relationships at all levels.
- Creation of Business Plans and Investment Justification

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- None

Other Relevant Job Details

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For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

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In a world where technology never stands still,



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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About Business Unit

Software Networking Business Unit is one of the newest investments for IBM under Cloud and Cognitive Software organization. We serve cross industry client's advanced networking needs in a rapidly evolving and transforming marketplace, focusing on the Telco, Enterprise and MSP needs.

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM Vaccination Policy

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Benefits of working as a Product Manager in Bangalore:

● Learning opportunities
● Company offers career progression opportunities
● Advantageous package

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