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 secure commitment 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

• Practical Experience in Agile Product Management: Practical experience with product lifecycle management and agile processes (e.g., Epics, User Stories, Backlogs), including proficiency with relevant tooling (e.g., Jira, requirements management systems)

• Willingness to travel up to 15%

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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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Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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