Senior Principal Product Manager

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 …