Job summary
The Red Hat OpenShift Product Management team is looking for a technical Principal Product Manager to join us and work on our Kubernetes container platform in Westford or Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC, or remotely (U.S. time zones are preferred). In this role, you will be responsible for specific Red Hat OpenShift subsystems and you'll work with our Engineering and Product teams responsible for building and delivering them to market. 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 you'll work closely with the 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'll need to have great communication, teamwork, and persuasion skills. This is a great opportunity to work on a fast-growing offering alongside some of the brightest minds in open source. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
Primary job responsibilities

• Collect and document input from Red Hat OpenShift users, customers, community members, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs; develop strategy and roadmap for our offerings
• Research competitive solutions, both commercial and do-it-yourself alternatives, documenting their relative strengths and weakness to develop competitive positioning and collect input for new releases
• 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 upstream 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 and demos and support the overall sales process
• Support sales and marketing activities including creating presentations, blogs, demos, and other technical collateral for our offerings
• Review and provide feedback on the documentation for our offerings

Required skills

• 5+ years of enterprise software industry experience working in product management, technical marketing, solutions engineering, 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 of open source solutions
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or similar cloud or application management solutions
• Bachelor's or graduate degree, preferably in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, following Red Hat's COVID-19 guidelines

The following are considered a plus:

• Knowledge of observability including metrics, alerting, logging, and tracing
• Prior experience with the agile development process
• Familiarity with Jira or a similar tool

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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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