IT Product Manager

## Who We Are At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world's leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive. ## The Role At Kyndryl we are looking for IT Product Manager, who will be responsible for the strategic management and evolution of core IT platforms, including Windows, VMware, Linux, and Middleware. Acting as the technical right hand of senior management, this role combines deep platform knowledge with strong consultative and stakeholder management skills. The Product Manager translates business and strategic objectives into clear roadmaps, executable releases, and well-documented plans, while bringing teams together to deliver sustainable platform outcomes. A key objective is to create new "wow" within the department by fully embedding and maturing product management principles, driving clarity, innovation, and tangible value across platform services. ## Responsibilities - Own end-to-end platform products, including vision, roadmap, lifecycle, risk, and value delivery - Develop and maintain multi-year platform roadmaps aligned with regulatory, security, and architectural standards - Lead release and lifecycle management, ensuring controlled, predictable, and auditable change - Lead product selection and rationalization, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, cost efficiency, and scalability goals - Drive platform migrations and modernization initiatives in line with regulatory and resilience requirements - Drive adoption of platform engineering practices, including Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and developer experience improvements - Drive the evolution towards cloud-native platforms, including container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and platform abstractions - Enable zero-touch operations through automation, event-driven workflows, and self-healing capabilities. - Drive adoption of desired state and policy-driven platform operations (IaC and PaC) - Shape and maintain a unified product and service catalog for operating systems, databases, middleware and integrations - Act as a trusted advisor to senior management, translating complex technical and regulatory topics into clear recommendations - Bring together engineering, operations, security, architecture, and vendors to deliver shared outcomes - Establish and govern platform products and patterns (e.g., infrastructure, pipelines, security, observability) - Create visible impact ("wow") by strengthening product thinking, clarity, and transparency across the department - Bring together cross-functional product and platform teams to drive on common goals ## Requirements - Deep platform knowledge (Windows, VMware, Linux, Middleware) - Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills - Ability to translate business and strategic objectives into clear roadmaps, executable releases, and well-documented plans - Experience in platform lifecycle management and risk assessment - Experience in platform migrations and modernization initiatives - Experience in driving adoption of platform engineering practices (IDP, developer experience) - Experience in cloud-native platform evolution (Kubernetes, platform abstractions) - Experience in zero-touch operations (automation, event-driven workflows, self-healing) - Experience in policy-driven platform operations (IaC and PaC) - Experience in shaping and maintaining a unified product and service catalog - Strong advisory skills to senior management on technical and regulatory topics - Cross-functional team collaboration experience - Strong product thinking, clarity, and transparency ## Nice to Have - Experience with container platforms and cloud-native technologies - Experience with automation and self-healing systems - Experience with policy-driven operations (IaC and PaC) - Experience with cross-functional product and platform team collaboration ## Benefits Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.