What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at IBM?
Introduction
We are seeking a highly strategic and technically deep Senior Product Manager to lead the long-term vision, modernization, and evolution of Apptio’s core Data Platform.
In this role, you will serve as the single-threaded owner for the Product strategy. You will define the future architecture of the modeling platform, drive foundational investments across data pipelines and computation, and lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, implementation, and customer-facing teams.
You must blend domain expertise, product strategy excellence, strong customer empathy, and the technical depth to work closely with engineers on data platforms, computation engines, and configurable enterprise systems.
This is a high-influence role for a product leader who thrives on solving complex system-level problems at scale.
Your Role And Responsibilities
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
We are seeking a highly strategic and technically deep Senior Product Manager to lead the long-term vision, modernization, and evolution of Apptio’s core Data Platform.
In this role, you will serve as the single-threaded owner for the Product strategy. You will define the future architecture of the modeling platform, drive foundational investments across data pipelines and computation, and lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, implementation, and customer-facing teams.
You must blend domain expertise, product strategy excellence, strong customer empathy, and the technical depth to work closely with engineers on data platforms, computation engines, and configurable enterprise systems.
This is a high-influence role for a product leader who thrives on solving complex system-level problems at scale.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Own and articulate the long-term vision for the Product.
- Define and execute a multi-year strategy for platform modernization, including computation engine re-architecture, data ingestion scaling, and UX simplification.
- Translate complex modeling, financial, and data management needs into clear requirements, themes, and architectural epics.
- Lead deep customer discovery across practitioners, implementation teams, and enterprise financial organizations to identify systemic challenges.
- Own prioritization for high-impact investments that improve performance, scalability, maintainability, and customer configurability.
- Partner closely with engineering and design to deliver on product requirements.
- Serve as a senior product voice with executive customers, partners, and industry leaders.
- Partner with other Apptio PM leaders to build unified product experiences across the platform.
- Align engineering, architecture, design, and go-to-market teams behind cohesive strategic outcomes.
- Monitor industry trends and convert insights into platform direction.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 6 plus years of product management experience, including extensive experience owning complex enterprise platforms.
- Strong domain expertise in TBM, ITFM, FinOps, enterprise cost modeling, or equivalent financial/operational modeling systems.
- Deep experience with data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, data ingestion, and enterprise data management.
- Familiarity with computation engines, rule-based allocation systems, and platform configuration frameworks.
- Proven ability to define multi-year product strategy and influence across senior engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate complex system interactions to both executives and highly technical stakeholders.