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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

We are seeking a highly strategic and technically deep Senior Product Manager to lead product vision, innovation, and commercial strategies withing the Automation Pillar. You must blend domain expertise, product strategy excellence, and strong customer empathy to work across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams. You will ensuring strategic priorities are driven with intention and structured in ways that see success in business outcomes as you find unmet customer needs to address in competitive ways, unique to IBM.

Your role and responsibilities

· Strategy & Vision: Own and articulate the long-term vision for the product. Define and execute a multi-year strategy for platform modernization and market expansion.

· Commercialization: Identify the most appropriate commercial strategy to support both customer and business outcomes, propel growth, and monetize created value in the offering.

· Market Fit & Discovery: Lead deep customer discovery across practitioners and enterprise organizations to identify systemic challenges. Conduct user research and market analysis to identify new product opportunities.

· GTM & Sales Enablement: Help with Sales and Marketing enablement to educate on the product story. Create website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, and FAQs. Assist field teams (SEs, Account Managers) with customer conversations and roadmap demos.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

· Experience: 7–10+ years of product management experience, with a minimum of 5 years focused on building and shipping customer-facing experiences in a B2B or Enterprise setting.

· Product Lifecycle: Proven track record of managing the full product lifecycle, from conception and PRD (Product Requirement Document) authoring to launch and post-market iteration.

Business Acumen: Deep understanding of software economics. You should be comfortable defending, validating, and executing a pricing model.

· Analytical Skills: Solid ability to define and track success metrics, interpret in-market data, and translate insights into product futures.

· Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to simplify complex system interactions for both executives and highly technical stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Domain Knowledge: Experience with AI/ML concepts, cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, architectures, and patterns, data lifecycle and/or infrastructure lifecycle management. Familiarity with IBM Technology (E.g. IBM Z Mainframe) and Software offerings.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, or Engineering is required; an MBA or Master’s Degree is preferred.

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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