Entry Level Product Manager Poughkeepsie NY Poughkeepsie

Product Managers play a pivotal role in shaping offerings that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to solve complex business challenges. IBM follows a structured product lifecycle management process, integrating agile methodologies,data-informeddecision-making, andcross-functionalcollaboration. Product Managers work across engineering, design, data science, and go-to-market teams to deliver innovative, secure, and scalable AI-powered solutions.

• Define and drive product strategy for AI and data-centric offerings, aligning with business goals and user needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, engineers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality features and models.
• Translate complex technical capabilities (e.g., ML models, data pipelines, APIs) into clear product requirements and user stories.
• Prioritize product backlog using data-driven frameworks and ensure alignment with roadmap and KPIs.
• Facilitate ethical AI practices by integrating fairness, transparency, and compliance into product development.
• Monitor product performance using analytics tools and user feedback to iterate and improve continuously.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to internal and external stakeholders, including executives and customers.
• Champion user experience and usability in AI interfaces, ensuring intuitive and trustworthy interactions.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

• Strong product management fundamentals: roadmap planning, backlog grooming, stakeholder alignment, and go-to-market execution.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts, data lifecycle, and model deployment practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.
• Proficiency in product analytics tools and data visualization platforms.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills to translate technical insights into business value.
• Ability to manage dependencies across teams and anticipate risks in product delivery.

• Experience with enterprise AI products or platforms
• Exposure to AI ethics frameworks and responsible AI practices.
• Comfortable working with global teams across time zones and cultures.

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it.

In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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