Product Manager – Platform Engineering & Toolchain
North Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
AbbVies Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Infrastructure Architecture and Innovation group is seeking a Product Manager with experience in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience Internal Developer Toolchains and DevOps.
This role supports product strategy design and planning for multiple internal platform products that enable secure compliant scalable and high-velocity software delivery across BTS.
You contribute to internal platform products using product management best practices embedding reliability security and compliance as differentiated capabilities while improving developer experience operational efficiency and time to value.
Key Responsibilities:
Facilitate outcomeoriented alignment across business engineering and BTO stakeholders for a suite of Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Toolchain products ensuring enterprise requirements (security compliance reliability cost) are delivered as built-in platform value.
Champion end-to-end product management from user research discovery and ideation through launch adoption and continuous optimization of internal platforms.
Own platform capabilities such as CI/CD pipelines developer portals artifact management and observability.
Treat compliance security and operational controls as first-class product features embedding them directly into platforms and pipelines.
Participate in user research journey mapping stakeholder engagement and market analysis to drive platform product decisions.
Focus engineering teams on the why. Own business outcomes and user problems not solutionsdeeply understand developer pain points before prescribing platform features.
Work closely with Engineering Security Architecture Legal and Compliance teams to deliver platforms that are compliant-by-design scalable and reusable.
Use data analytics KPIs and OKRs to measure product success guide prioritization and drive evidence-based customer-centric decisions.
Manage and refine backlog items: define epics and features ensure clarity of requirements and enable timely outcomes delivery using Agile (Scrum Kanban) and Lean practices.
Collaborate with other Product Managers to align platform strategies manage interdependencies and deliver a cohesive internal developer ecosystem.
Guide cross-functional teams in delivering platform standards paved roads and self-service capabilities that accelerate product team delivery.
Proactively monitor DevOps Platform Engineering cloud and AI trends to ensure platform relevance sustainability and innovation.
Facilitate outcome-oriented alignment across business engineering and BTO stakeholders clearly communicating strategy trade-offs and progress.
Qualifications :
Required:
Bachelors Degree with 7 years experience masters degree with 6 years experience PhD and 2 years experience.
Proven experience as a Product Manager contributing to platform infrastructure or internal developer-facing products.
Knowledge of Agile product management product discovery frameworks (Lean Dual-Track Agile Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework Continuous Discovery) and outcome-based roadmapping.
Strong understanding of Platform Engineering DevOps CI/CD cloud platforms infrastructure-as-code and developer experience.
Prior hands-on engineering experience or deep technical background in software delivery.
Experience working with cross-disciplinary teams including Engineering SRE Security and Architecture.
Proven ability to engage engineering teams as a technical peercan discuss architectural trade-offs evaluate technical debt and contribute to design discussions.
Strong analytical user empathy and stakeholder management skills.
Excellent communicator able to build trust influence without authority and align teams in a complex matrixed enterprise environment.
Preferred:
Experience in regulated industries (pharma healthcare finance) with familiarity in GxP SOX GDPR or similar frameworks.
Hands-on exposure to Platform Engineering models (internal developer platforms golden paths paved roads).
Experience delivering Compliance-as-a-Platform or Security-as-a-Platform capabilities.
Background working closely with Cloud Engineering SRE or DevOps organizations.
Ability to manage competing priorities and navigate ambiguity while driving business outcomes
Why This Role Matters
This role directly enables faster safer and more reliable delivery of digital products across AbbVie. By treating platform capabilities as products the Product Manager will improve developer productivity reduce operational and compliance risk and scale engineering excellence across the enterprise.
Additional Information :
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The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation holidays sick) medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission incentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on creating medicines and solutions that put impact first for patients, communities, and our world. We aim to address complex health issues and enhance people's lives through our core therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuro ... View more