Infrastructure Product Manager

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, and they are seeking an Infrastructure Product Manager to drive strategic product alignment with key partners in the IHV, Edge, and OEM computing spaces. This role involves managing partner-specific roadmaps and solutions while ensuring the successful delivery of foundational features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux through collaboration with product management and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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%
• 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