Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the portfolio strategy and roadmap 

  • Build and continuously sharpen a revenue-growth strategy for your three-product portfolio, identifying the highest-value features and positioning moves that align customer demand with available engineering capacity. 

  • Own the product roadmap end-to-end: translate business cases into prioritized decisions, manage engineering trade-offs transparently, and communicate direction clearly to all stakeholders. 

  • Identify and evaluate partnership, licensing, and ecosystem opportunities that extend the portfolio's reach. 

   

  Be the voice of the customer 

  • Build deep, direct relationships with customers across segments and geographies; spend meaningful time in their environments to surface unmet needs and validate solutions before they hit engineering. 

  • Champion the customer's perspective in every product, roadmap, and prioritization conversation — especially when it conflicts with internal preferences. 

  • Monitor the competitive landscape internationally and ensure Rocket's products are differentiated and well-positioned relative to our strategy. 

   

  Drive cross-functional execution 

  • Partner with Engineering on technically complex problems that require deep product and platform knowledge to solve well; help the team make smart trade-off decisions under real-world constraints. 

  • Enable the Sales team with clear positioning, competitive intelligence, and effective customer-facing collateral; brief partners and the internal sales force on releases, lifecycle changes, and pricing policy. 

  • Collaborate with Marketing and Support to design go-to-market motions that actually move revenue and improve customer satisfaction — not just launch and forget. 

  • Evangelize product vision constantly so every stakeholder — engineering, sales, support, leadership — stays aligned and understands where the portfolio is heading and why

Required Qualifications:

• • 5+ years of product management experience in enterprisemainframesoftware, with a demonstrable record of growing revenue or contribution margin for existing products. 

  • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder products in an Agile development environment. 

  • The ability to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually demanding and service-oriented environment. 

  • Strong command of both qualitative and quantitative methods for prioritization and decision-making — you know how to combine customer interviews, usage data, and financial models to make a compelling case. 

  • Possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy that includes a big-picture vision and the drive to make that vision a reality. 

  • The ability to manage time and schedules to meet aggressive deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication 

  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams — engineering, sales, marketing, support — without relying on formal authority. 

  • Demonstrated success defining and launching excellentproducts.  

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills: you can write a sharp business case, run a tight customer discovery session, and present confidently to executives or large audiences. 

  • A unique blend of business acumen and technical curiosity — you do not need to write code, but you need to earn the respect of a pragmatic engineering team by understanding what is hard, what is expensive, and what is not worth building. 

  • Comfortable handling confidential information with discretion and thriving in a fast-paced, intellectually demanding environment. 

  Preferred (nice to have, not required) 

  • Background in enterprise infrastructure software — storage management, performance monitoring, systems management, or related domains. 

  • Familiarity with mainframe, IBM Power, or hybrid cloud/on-premises environments and the operational realities of long-lived, mission-critical deployments. 

  • MBA or related Master's degree. 

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience. MBA or relevant Master's degree preferred but not required 

Travel Requirements:

<25%, including international travel, fluctuates to meet business and customer needs.

Information Security:

Information security is everyone’sresponsibility. A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control, according to their role.

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity:

At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment, where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity, diversity and equity in our workforce.

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