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Senior Product Manager - IBM Software Automation Pillar

IBM

Product

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Feb 17, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Technical Product Manager, you will create and deliver technical assets to demonstrate user experience and related offering value props. You will drive business strategies and product vision, leveraging your deep domain and business expertise to identify target markets and opportunities. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop Product Vision and Roadmap: Build a credible product vision and roadmap, selling it to internal stakeholders and driving prioritization and release planning with engineering teams based on market facts and trends. • Drive Business Strategies: Identify target markets and opportunities, determining the right business strategies to pursue based on IBM's strengths and market opportunities. • Function as Product Owner: Act as a "product owner" for development teams, determining acceptable scope and schedule for releases in the context of other business requirements and technical debt. • Perform Product Technology Assessments: Conduct robust product technology assessments and benchmarks to ensure differentiation. • Translate Market Needs: Translate market needs into development plans based on a deep understanding of product portfolio capabilities.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Domain Expertise: Deep expertise in identifying target markets and opportunities based on user problems, trends, and market dynamics, with the ability to determine the right business strategies to pursue. • Technical Asset Development: Experience with creating and delivering technical assets to demonstrate user experience and related offering value props, leveraging deep domain and business expertise. • Product Vision and Roadmap Development: Experience in building a credible product vision and roadmap, with the ability to sell it to internal stakeholders and drive prioritization and release planning with engineering teams. • Product Technology Assessment: Experience with conducting robust product technology assessments and benchmarks to ensure differentiation, with a deep understanding of product portfolio capabilities. • Product Ownership: Experience functioning as a "product owner" for development teams, determining acceptable scope and schedule for releases in the context of other business requirements and technical debt.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Deep Domain Knowledge: Experience with analyzing market trends, user problems, and market dynamics to inform business strategies and identify opportunities. • Technical Asset Creation: Exposure to designing and delivering technical assets that effectively demonstrate user experience and offering value propositions. • Product Portfolio Understanding: Experience with translating market needs into development plans based on a thorough understanding of product portfolio capabilities.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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 is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

US Citizenship Required.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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