Technical Product Manager, Data Resiliency

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Introduction At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability.

Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation.

With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress.

You will be joining a high-performance product management team focused on leading business growth and driving positive change within the broader Infrastructure organization and IBM.

Your Role And Responsibilities IBM Storage is looking for an experienced individual with more than 15 years of experience as a Technical Product Manager to be part of the team that is responsible for IBM Storage Defender, Data Resiliency platform.

  • Product managers are responsible for gathering customer and market requirements and distilling it into a strategic roadmap that they drive through execution, GTM and customer adoption.
  • Successful candidates will have 5-10 years of Product management experience with a successful track record of shipping market leading products and deep domain expertise in data protection, data governance or data security.
Roles And Responsibilities
  • Work with key stakeholders and a cross-functional team to define product requirements, manage new product releases, including all product launch deliverables
  • Work closely with Development and UX teams on functional definition and delivery
  • Work with sales and partners to strengthen the Defender Storage Protect offerings
  • Participating in defining product strategy and roadmap management
  • Develop and coordinate enablement assets for sales and partners
  • Work with industry analysts, partners, and customers to gather and validate market requirements, understand pain points, address RFEs, and evangelizing the product roadmap and vision
Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise
  • Deep expertise in Backup and Restore technologies
  • Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
  • Data Security and Governance
  • Enterprise Storage
  • Experience working with UX and Development in an agile environment
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
  • BS or MS in Engineering
  • MBA preferred but not required
  • Experience in backup, DR product operations or management – min 5 years
  • Experience working with Managed Service providers, system integrators and ecosystem partners
  • Experience shipping Enterprise software products to Fortune 50 companies, mid-market across all major verticals – financial, education, government, healthcare and retail
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