IBM

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To secure. To code. To deliver. To consult. To think along with clients. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Are you a seasoned Product Manager with a proven track record of successful product ownership and growth? Colleagues regard you as someone who navigates customer outcomes, business impacts, and functional tradeoffs with unparalleled skill. Your communication style leaves team members feeling respected, heard, and understood. Now, imagine channeling your expertise to shape the technology of tomorrow—a force that powers the world around us and yields an impact to be proud of.

We’re looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about helping organizations meet their compliance needs and has fun doing so. You have a keen awareness and understanding of the security and compliance market for IT, while keeping abreast of rapidly evoving compliance frameworks and standards – both globally and regionally. You have smarts to be proactive in identifying compliance gaps and opportunities, planning an optimal roadmap to address improvement opportunities and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on those plans.

As a Platform Compliance Advisory Product Manager at IBM Cloud, you will create a strategy for the Platform compliance standards and develop an outcome based roadmap within the framework of IBM Cloud compliance program. You will facilitate the delivery of roadmap elements, collaborations, and decisions that facilitate achieving planned compliance outcomes. You’ll join IBM Cloud office in Bangalore, where we collaborate with our development, design and sales team, learn from each other, and build our cloud community.

What you’ll do

• Own the strategy and vision for security, resiliency and platform compliance requirements for target market and industries, ensuring its alignment with IBM Cloud business objectives
• Explore and analyze security, resiliency and platform compliance priorities for the target market and industries
• Develop and articulate a point of view on market opportunity and approach for platform compliance requirements
• Develop an optimal roadmap for security, resiliency and platform compliance programs
• Create business plan specifying investment requirements and expected outcomes by route to market
• Lead cross-functional execution against business plan to complete platform compliance programs and ensure go to market enablement and delivery readiness
• Assess platform compliance program performance in meeting planned outcomes and address gaps
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders, including engineering, design, sales, marketing, analysts, ecosystem partners, to achieve platform compliance objectives that aligns with business objectives and user needs
• Champion platform compliance program understanding and successfully manage compliance program communication from start to completion with minimal oversight
• Guide associate product managers and participate in compliance program reviews to convey status and results
• Demonstrate committed and respectful collaboration between members of cross-functional teams and be part of promoting a positive team culture and work environment
• Sustain expertise on the security and platform compliance standards and requirements for target market and industries

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Computer Science/Engineering
• 5+ years experience in Product Management or equivalent practical experience building or deploying products in a Cloud based software organization
• 10+ years experience working in the Cloud Platform or IT industry
• 5+ years experience working in Regulatory, Security and Compliance areas for Cloud
• 3+ years experience in security and compliance standards, regulations and framework like ISO 27001, NIST SP800-53, PCI-DSS, HIPAA
• Knowledge of the cloud platform market segment – technologies, best practices, vendors, and competitive landscape
• Hands-on, data-driven approach, and an ability to work concurrently on several projects
• Cross-functional leadership experience across development, operations, design, support, sales, product marketing, marketing, and partners
• Strategic thinking with ability to untangle complex information and share it across teams in a digestible format, aligning compliance goals with business goal
• Experience in implementing agile practices and design thinking
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills in English
• Ability to work from the office in Bangalore

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Master’s in Business Administration
• Experience working in the regulated industry segments like BFSI, Healthcare, Telecom
• Certifications like CISA, CISSP, CCSK, CCSP
• Track record of high-quality, self-directed, timely execution, and attention to detail.
• Technical expertise and ability to communicate, work & build trust with stakeholders
• Experience in Public Cloud compliance programs
• Desire to make the best products in the industry hands-down
• Infectious curiosity — always looking for opportunities to learn new things
• Self-motivation, an open mind and a sense of humor

Sound like you? If so we’d LOVE to hear from you! Come help us shape the next generation of IBM Cloud.