AI Foundations - Technical Product Manager

Introduction

At IBM Research, we are the innovation engine of IBM. Exploring what’s next in computing and shaping the technologies the world will rely on tomorrow. From advancing AI and hybrid cloud to pioneering practical quantum computing, we anticipate challenges and unlock new opportunities for clients, partners, and society. Working in Research means joining a team that accelerates discovery at the intersection of high-performance computing, AI, quantum, and cloud. You’ll collaborate with leading scientists, engineers, and visionaries to push boundaries and turn ideas into reality. With a culture built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration, IBM Research offers the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to breakthroughs that transform industries and change the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Manager: Artificial Intelligence, you will provide detailed direction on key technical and marketing tasks to launch an offering feature, offering, or collection of offerings in the portfolio. You will be accountable for key outcome metrics, including customer satisfaction, accessibility, and revenue and AI profitability of assigned offering. Your primary responsibilities will include: 

• Drive Offering Development: Collaborate with development leaders, product architects, product designers, and key customers to package features into offering releases, ensuring offering designs reflect business objectives. 
• Deliver Customer Validation: Drive customer validation through beta programs and client meetings, confirming requirements are addressed by the delivered solution and analyzing feedback to identify potential gaps or opportunities. 
• Manage Offering Delivery: Negotiate offering contracts with development teams, drive cross-functional collaborative efforts to meet offering schedule commitments and actively manage the plan of delivery including associated risks. 
• Showcase Offering Capabilities: Demonstrate offering capabilities and value proposition to external stakeholders, including customers, partners, and analysts. Develop Digital Assets: Work with development and marketing to deliver digital assets in support of always-on marketing and digital engagement, such as interactive demos and trials/evaluations. Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore, are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.

Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Knowledge of AI Solutions: Deep expertise in IBM's AI Solution portfolio, including areas such as machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, brain-inspired algorithms, and knowledge representation and reasoning.
• Technical Direction Experience: Experience with providing detailed direction on key technical tasks to launch an offering feature, offering, or collection of offerings in the portfolio.
• Outcome Metrics Management: Experience in managing key outcome metrics, including customer satisfaction, accessibility, and
• revenue and profitability of assigned offerings.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience with driving cross-functional collaborative efforts to meet offering schedule commitments and managing associated risks.
• Specialized AI Expertise: Deep expertise in areas such as computer vision, NLP, question answering, and quantum and neuromorphic architectures for next-generation AI.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced AI Research Knowledge: Familiarity with research in areas such as causal inference, knowledge induction, and symbolic and trainable logic can be beneficial in this role.
• Next-Generation AI Expertise: Knowledge of emerging technologies like quantum and neuromorphic architectures can be advantageous in developing innovative AI solutions.
• Specialized AI Application Experience: Exposure to applying AI solutions in various industries or domains can be valuable in understanding customer needs and developing effective solutions.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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.

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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.  

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.

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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