Infrastructure Product Manager

About the Job

Red Hats Infrastructure Product Management team is seeking an Infrastructure Product Manager (IPM) to join us in driving strategic product alignment with key partners in the IHV Edge and OEM computing spaces. This role is responsible for contributing to the overall product strategy managing partner-specific roadmaps and solutions and driving technical alignment through engagement with these partners. You will collaborate closely with the product management and engineering teams at these partners to define and prioritize the required foundational features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ensuring our joint offerings deliver market success.

What You Will Do

• Drive product discovery by actively engaging Red Hat customers key partners (IHV/OEM/Edge) and internal stakeholders to deeply understand market problems and develop clear requirements

• Serve as the primary owner for partner requirements within the RHEL Business Unit collaborating across Product Management Engineering and Other Stakeholders to drive prioritization and alignment on the product roadmap

• Translate market requirements into clear actionable artifactsincluding Market Problems Epics User Stories and formal Requirements documentsto enable efficient engineering execution for new RHEL releases and offerings

• Guide and manage all technical roadmap alignment sessions (Partner Interlocks Technical Deep Dives) to ensure timely high-quality and mutual roadmap synchronization between Red Hat product and engineering teams and partner organizations

What You Will Bring

• Ability to Influence and Drive Consensus: Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders drive consensus and communicate complex product and technical roadmaps effectively to engineering sales and partner teams

• Strong verbal and written communication skills: Essential for cross-functional collaboration and external partner engagement

• Strategic Execution & Prioritization: Ability to manage a platform roadmap prioritizing complex foundational requirements across multiple partner dependencies using data-driven analysis

• Foundational Experience in Linux and Open Source: Foundational experience with Linux including an understanding of the kernel/platform layer and a clear working knowledge of the open-source development and contribution model.

• Willingness to travel up to 15%

Nice to Have

• Practiced in Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated experience working within an Agile environment (e.g. as a TAM Engineer or Project Coordinator); familiarity with iterative development cycles and using tools like Jira to track progress and dependencies

• Hardware Ecosystem Literacy: Technical interest or experience in hardware enablement firmware or low-level Linux components (e.g. kernel drivers)

• Lifecycle Synchronization: Understanding of how hardware vendor release cadences intersect with operating system distribution schedules

• Upstream Awareness: Familiarity with the Upstream-first open-source development model and how it impacts time-to-market for new hardware support

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Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.

Benefits
Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability paid family medical leave and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan family planning reimbursement tuition reimbursement transportation expense account employee assistance program and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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