Product Manager, OpenSearch Professional San Jose

Overview

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into industry‑leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI‑powered, cloud‑native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

• Own a core Open Search product area, defining product direction and roadmap for technically complex capabilities such as indexing, query performance, scalability, security, and extensibility. Drive adoption and growth across both open‑source and enterprise distributions.
• Partner closely with engineering to plan, prioritize, and execute work across the full product development lifecycle. Operate as a hands‑on, technically fluent Product Manager who can engage meaningfully in design discussions, tradeoffs, and sequencing decisions.
• Drive innovation through a roadmap grounded in real customer workloads and system‑level constraints. Balance new feature development with performance, reliability, and technical debt reduction in a large‑scale distributed system.
• Lead product strategy by aligning engineering, design, sales, and field teams around clear priorities and outcomes. Ensure product decisions support IBM’s broader data and AI strategy while maintaining a strong, independent Open Search product vision.
• Work with open‑source contributors, partners, and internal IBM teams to strengthen the Open Search ecosystem. Identify opportunities to extend the platform, integrate with adjacent technologies, and enable new enterprise use cases.

High School Diploma/GED

• Deep expertise in technical product management for complex platforms such as distributed systems, data infrastructure, or developer‑focused products.
• Strong ability to work deeply with engineering teams on architecture, performance tradeoffs, and system design, translating technical concepts into clear product direction.
• Demonstrated success owning product strategy and execution across the full product development lifecycle.
• Track record of incorporating customer feedback and real‑world usage data into prioritization and roadmap decisions.
• Ability to influence and align diverse stakeholder groups through clear communication and technical credibility.

• Experience with search engines, analytics platforms, databases, or large‑scale data systems.
• Prior Product Management experience in a cloud‑native, Agile development environment, with exposure to Kubernetes and public cloud platforms.
• Experience working with or alongside open‑source communities, including managing the balance between community innovation and enterprise requirements.

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