Infrastructure Product Manager

Job Summary:

Red Hat's 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 drive alignment and secure commitment on the product roadmap

• Translate market requirements into clear, actionable artifacts—including Market Problems, Epics, User Stories, and formal requirements documents—to 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

• Practical Experience in Agile Product Management: Practical experience with product lifecycle management and agile processes (e.g., Epics, User Stories, Backlogs), including proficiency with relevant tooling (e.g., Jira, requirements management systems)

• 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); familiar with iterative development cycles and comfortable 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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The salary range for this position is $108,760.00 - $173,800.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. 

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