Principal Product Manager, OpenShift

About the Job

The Red Hat OpenShift Product Management team is looking for a Product Manager to join us in our Raleigh, NC office and work on our Kubernetes container platform. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to build open source based enterprise products.

In this role, you will be responsible for specific Red Hat OpenShift subsystems and work with our Engineering and Product teams  who build and deliver them to market. This role has a focus on OpenShift installation and hosted control planes capabilities in the core OpenShift container platform.  You will plan and deliver product content for new releases and launches of our offerings, prioritize and communicate product requirements to guide development, support the field team in advanced sales opportunities, perform competitive reviews and analyses, and work with partners. You will actively contribute to the overall company strategy and work closely with Engineering, Marketing, Support, Sales, and Field teams to ensure the success of our offerings. You will also engage with open source communities that support our container initiatives including Kubernetes, other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, CoreOS, Fedora, and more. 

As a Principal Product Manager, you need to have great communication, teamwork, and persuasion skills to articulate product vision, foster cross-functional collaboration, and influence key stakeholders to drive successful product outcomes. This is a great opportunity to work on a fast-growing offering alongside some of the brightest minds in open source.

What You Will Do

• Collect and document input from Red Hat OpenShift users, customers, community members and other stakeholders to understand customer requirements and acceptance criteria

• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned with market needs and company goals

• Define product vision, features, goals, measurable business outcome; use metrics/KPIs to measure the success and health of products and the impact of business outcomes

• Research competitive solutions, both commercial and do-it-yourself alternatives, document their relative strengths and weakness to develop competitive positioning and collect input for new features and/or products

• Prioritize and document requirements, epics and user stories for new releases of our offerings

• Guide major enhancements of our offerings by working cross-functionally with core teams across our Engineering team and the open source community

• Work with the OpenShift Engineering team and the overall Product team to manage releases and updates of our offerings and bring new Red Hat OpenShift solutions to market

• Work with our Sales teams to respond to customer inquiries; deliver customer presentations or demos, and support the overall sales process

• Support go-to-market activities including creating presentations, blogs, demos, and other technical collateral for our product offerings

• Review and provide feedback on the documentation for our offerings

• Participate in technical aspects of go-to-market engagements like live streams, roadshows, workshops, webinars, demos of offerings and solutions, industry and partner events, and sales enablement and training

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of enterprise software industry experience working in product management, technical marketing, or a similar technical product or customer-facing role

• Linux skills and direct experience with Linux container technologies and Kubernetes

• Skills in distributed systems, resource management solutions, storage technologies, software-defined networking (SDN), enterprise logging and monitoring solutions 

• Working knowledge of the CNCF ecosystem and experience with open source projects

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud, bare metal or similar solutions

• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products

• Ability to think strategically and influence stakeholders to deliver against key priorities 

• Demonstrated ability to actively listen to customers, stakeholders, and engineering to effectively build a product or feature

• Capacity to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Bachelor's or graduate degree preferably in comp