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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the portfolio strategy and roadmap

  • Build and continuously sharpen a revenue-growth strategy for your three-product portfolio,identifyingthe 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.

  • Identifyand 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 andvalidatesolutions before they hit engineering.

  • Champion the customer's perspective in every product, roadmap, andprioritizationconversation - especially when it conflicts with internal preferences.

  • Monitor the competitive landscape internationally and ensure Rocket's products are differentiated and well-positionedrelativeto 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 thatactually moverevenue 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, notrequired)

  • 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 relatedMaster'sdegree.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience. MBA or relevantMaster'sdegree preferred but notrequired.

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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