Product Manager H/F - IBM FutureNow Center

Job description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results.

Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. The consultant will serve as a Product Manager, overseeing the design, development, and delivery of new features. Working directly with business teams to understand their requirements, the consultant will translate these needs into concrete product enhancements, while coordinating a team of 9 (3 front-end developers, 2 designers, and 4 back-end developers) alongside a Tech Lead.

This role sits at the heart of AI and innovation initiatives.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Manager: Digital Product Engineering, you will be responsible for creating and aligning teams around the product's vision, goals, and success metrics to drive impactful business outcomes for the client. You will play a key role in gathering insights, performing market and customer research, and translating the vision and priorities into Product team work streams and creation of the product backlog.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Develop Product Vision

• Create and align teams around the product's vision, goals, and success metrics to drive impactful business outcomes for the client.

Gather Insights

• Perform market and customer research, and gather perspectives from multiple cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions.

Translate Vision into Work Streams

• Translate the vision and priorities into Product team work streams and creation of the product backlog.

Collaborate with Stakeholders

• Work with stakeholders to get buy-in and approval on all major directional decisions for the product.

Drive Business Outcomes

• Drive impactful business outcomes for the client through effective product management.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic product direction and backlog management Define and maintain the product roadmap for new features, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Prioritize and structure the product backlog based on business priorities and technical capacity. Make trade-off decisions between competing needs and guide strategic design choices.

Oversee each initiative from end to end

exploration, design, development, delivery, and communication. Collaborate with the UX researcher during the exploration and validation of hypotheses. 2. Operational coordination of the Agile team Facilitate Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives) in partnership with the Tech Lead. Manage the progress of a 9-person team (3 front-end developers, 2 designers, 4 back-end developers).

Monitor the status of activities and deliverables (tracking progress, backlog management, and scheduling). 3. International collaboration Interact with marketing, design, and IT teams based in various countries. Contribute to coordination and communication across global teams. Produce clear, structured summary materials (in English).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Missions principales

• Pilotage stratégique du produit et gestion du backlog
• Définir et maintenir la roadmap des nouvelles fonctionnalités en alignement avec les objectifs business.
• Prioriser et structurer le backlog produit selon les priorités métier et la capacité technique.
• Arbitrer entre les besoins concurrents et guider les choix stratégiques de conception.

Suivre chaque sujet de bout en bout

• exploration, conception, développement, livraison et communication.
• Collaborer avec l'UX researcher lors de l'exploration et validation des hypothèses. 2. Coordination opérationnelle de l'équipe agile
• Animer les rituels agiles (daily, sprint planning, refinement, rétrospectives) en binôme avec le Tech Lead.
• Piloter l’avancement d’une équipe de 9 personnes (3 développeurs front, 2 designers, 4 développeurs back).
• Suivre l'avancement des activités et des livrables (statuts, backlog, planning). 3. Collaboration internationale
• Interagir avec des équipes marketing, design et IT situées dans différents pays.
• Contribuer à la coordination et à la communication entre les équipes globales.
• Produire des supports de synthèse clairs et structurés (en anglais). 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, 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.