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Product Solutions Manager

IBM

IBM

Product
Posted on May 1, 2025
Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Principal Product Manager/Principal Solutions Architect to contribute to our IBM Apptio’s Financial Management Portfolio of products. In this role, you will work with key stakeholders to drive strategy and execution of our Enterprise Business Management and Insights Offering. You will be an autonomous owner, with direct impact on the strategic direction of this Apptio business and be the single-threaded owner responsible for the planning and execution of all product development efforts. We are looking for a hands-on technical, and an analytics-driven individual to deliver innovative new offerings in response to customer and market needs. The right candidate will have the proven ability to dive deep into complex customer challenges and understand how to create simple yet elegant solutions to those challenges. You will work closely with our engineering, design, product marketing, customer success and sales teams to take the solutions from concept to launch to scale.

If you are passionate about solving complex problems and making a direct business impact, Apptio will be a great fit for you.

What we want you to do:

  • Deliver business impact as a hands-on Individual Contributor, executing to the strategic vision for the Enterprise Business Management business.
  • Work closely with customers to understand their needs and deliver compelling Solutions and value-add features and enhancements.
  • Analyze and understand the competitive landscape and work to develop features that differentiate.
  • Understand Apptio’s core product strengths and work to integrate them into new platforms and partnerships.
  • Closely track industry and market trends and adapt your product strategy accordingly.
  • Collaborate with product marketing to create compelling messaging and content that clearly communicates the unique and differentiated value proposition to the market.
  • Partner with key stakeholders such as engineering and the broader Product teams to effectively execute and deliver success.
  • Drive product roadmap innovation through rapid triage of facts and data.
  • Execute the roadmap and prioritize features designed to drive adoption and value to our customer base.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Strong business and domain knowledge in understanding of how enterprises manage their overall technology spend.
  • 4+ years of working in the Shared Services function in an organization with a deep experience and expertise in this domain
  • 6+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of bringing compelling offerings to market.
  • Deep passion for understanding customer and market feedback.
  • Attitude and aptitude for rapid learning
  • Strong leadership skills and executive presence
Preferred technical and professional experience

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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 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 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. 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), 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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.