Senior Principal Product Manager

Posted 19 Hours Ago
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Boston, MA
181K-299K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Internet of Things • Software • Consulting • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Automation
Creating better technology the open source way
The Role
The Senior Principal Product Manager will lead automation initiatives at Red Hat, engaging with customers and sales, gathering feedback, conducting research on automation use cases, and collaborating to develop the Ansible Automation Platform roadmap while advocating for Ansible's value in IT automation.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Red Hat Ansible Business Unit is looking for an experienced industry professional, passionate about automation, to join the Ansible Product team in a senior outbound/field product management capacity. 

This person would ideally be in the Boston area or Northeastern United States.

You will need to understand the challenges of technology adoption, driving process and mindset change, and communicating the value of a strategic approach to technology implementation.

This includes understanding how IT models are evolving, the complexities IT organizations face the practical implications of infrastructure management across datacenter, cloud and edge.

Our Outbound Product Managers actively engage with Customers, Sales and cross-portfolio teams to champion the Ansible Automation Platform GTM messaging and drive feedback into the product delivery functions. 

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is our vision for how you manage and operate automation at scale. Helping our customers to strategically support their business goals through our enterprise automation offering. Your mission will be to work across Red Hat, our customers and our partners to evangelize the value of Ansible as the standard for IT automation.

Primary job responsibilities

  • Be a leader and advocate for automation lead change with Red Hat customers and sales teams.

  • Represent the Ansible Business Unit at Red Hat’s Executive Briefing Center.

  • Collect input from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform customers and other internal or external stakeholders to understand market problems, opportunities, customer needs and discuss early Roadmap feedback, feature design and features gaps.

  • Research automation use cases to identify competitive areas for investment to increase the breadth of automation possibilities for Ansible Automation Platform customers. 

  • Document findings and research results and socialize them with internal and external stakeholders.

  • Formally define requirements, use cases, customer user stories for new content ideas across a broad selection of technical domains.

  • Work with Product Management, Product and Technical Marketing teams to build the overall Ansible Automation Platform Roadmap, develop positioning guides, go-to-market strategies, define success metrics and measure impact and results of new deliverables.

  • Collaborate to align strategic and tactical roadmaps with Red Hat objectives, portfolio opportunities, and peer product strategies.

  • 25% Travel requirement - possible international travel

Required skills

  • 8+ years of experience in developing Automation, Cloud or Infrastructure technologies, or 10+ years experience implementing IT Automation in one or more Enterprise IT environments

  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and articulate ideas and concepts clearly with enthusiasm and clarity of direction.

  • Ability to influence from c-level business focused conversations, down to detailed technical conversations with automation engineers

  • Experience gathering and analyzing data, research and market analysis, translating this information into requirements and functional specifications to develop a long term strategy

  • Experience moving technical programs or products from concept to completion and articulating impact using metrics, growth examples, and return on investment (ROI) 

  • Resourceful, action and detail-oriented, with high ownership experience delivering measurable impact.

  • Ability to Travel 25% (mostly in the Northeast US)

The following will be a Plus:

  • Experience of Ansible Automation implementation, architectures and adoption strategies

  • Experienced leadership/participation in large scale transformation programs.


 

The salary range for this position is $181,440.00 - $299,260.00. 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. 

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. 

Diversity, Equity & 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 diverse 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 of diversity that compose our global village.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.


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The Company
HQ: Raleigh, NC
20,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions.

We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work With Us

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