Infrastructure Product Manager

About the Job

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 alignment 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.

• 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

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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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