Principal Product Manager

About the Job

Are you a visionary product leader passionate about GitOps and Continuous Delivery? Red Hat is seeking a Principal Product Manager to join our Hybrid Platforms product management team to work on our Kubernetes container platform. In this role, you will shape the future of cloud-native continuous delivery by leading our OpenShift GitOps offering, empowering developers and platform engineers with seamless, automated deployments.

You will be responsible for evolving and delivering our product roadmap by collaborating with customers, engineering, marketing, support, and field teams. As the accountable party for driving the delivery of solutions that will impact hundreds of thousands of OpenShift users globally, you will oversee timelines, roadmap execution, and ongoing stakeholder engagement. You will also engage with open source communities that support our container initiatives including Kubernetes, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, and other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects. 

As a Principal Product Manager, you 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.

What You'll Do

• Collect and document input from Red Hat OpenShift users, customers, community members, and Red Hat partners to understand customers' needs; develop strategy and roadmap for OpenShift GitOps. 

• Research competitive solutions, 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

• 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

• Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing LLMs (e.g., Google Gemini), as relevant, for tasks such as brainstorming solutions, deep research, summarizing technical documentation, drafting communications, summarizing complex technical information, and enhancing problem-solving efficiency across the development lifecycle.

• Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to product management and prototyping, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.

What You'll Bring

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

• Strong understanding of the CI/CD landscape, and cloud-native application architectures, deployment and operations

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts (e.g., CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes) into product strategy and customer value.

• Strong understanding of developer experience and design principles 

• Familiarity with the Kubernetes and the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux, Fleet, etc

• Understanding of and experience with open source projects and communities

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

• Ability to think strategically, influence cross-functional teams and manage without direct authority

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

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work in cross-functional environment with a distributed remote and global workforce

• Understanding of technical challenges to drive well-informed decisions with the development team 

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The salary range for this position is $151, $249, 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. 

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

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. 

Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat's culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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