Principal Product Manager - Technical

The Red Hat Hybrid Platforms Product Management team is looking for a Principal Product Manager (technical) to own and drive identity solutions in Red Hat OpenShift. 

In this role, you are responsible for how people, workloads, and software agents authenticate to OpenShift and how OpenShift decides what they are allowed to do. You will work with the Engineering and Product teams who build and deliver those capabilities. The product area includes:

• User authentication and authorization, including the OpenShift OAuth server and external OpenID Connect integrations, Kubernetes RBAC, workload identity, multi-cluster authentication on OpenShift clusters
• Identity and user federation to secure agentic workflows in OpenShift.

You will plan and deliver product content for new releases and launches, prioritize and communicate requirements to guide development, support the field in advanced sales opportunities, perform competitive reviews, and work with partners. You will contribute to company strategy and work closely with Engineering, Marketing, Support, Sales, Security, and Field teams. 

You will engage with the open source communities behind this work, including Kubernetes and other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects.

As a Principal Product Manager, you need great communication, teamwork, and persuasion skills to articulate the product vision, align teams across the company, and influence stakeholders. This is an opportunity to work on a core platform control alongside some of the brightest minds in open source.

What you will do:

• Collect input from OpenShift users, customers, community members, and internal stakeholders on how enterprises manage identity, and turn that input into strategy and a roadmap
• Define the product vision, the customer problems to solve, and measurable outcomes for authentication, authorization, and workload identity.
• Define and use metrics for adoption and measuring success
• Research commercial and do-it-yourself alternatives and use that research for competitive positioning
• Prioritize and document requirements, epics, and user stories, with acceptance criteria, for new releases
• Guide major enhancements with OpenShift Engineering, Kubernetes upstream, and adjacent product teams.
• Drive the identity model that agentic features in OpenShift and related products use, and work with those product teams so agents obtain authority through OpenShift identity and authorization
• Work with Sales on customer inquiries, presentations, and demos.
• Support go-to-market work, including presentations, blogs, demos, workshops, events, and sales enablement, and review documentation for this area
• Keep Engineering, Support, and Field aligned on direction, and own the translation of strategy into a release plan
  

What you will bring:

• 5+ years of enterprise software experience in product management, technical marketing, solutions engineering, or a similar technical product or customer-facing role
• A track record of leading cross-functional work on a platform, security, or identity management, and of influencing people who do not report to you
• Direct experience with Kubernetes identity management.
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and or how enterprises use identity provider (e.g. Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Federate).
• Working knowledge of cloud workload identity. Depth in at least one of the following, and literacy in the others: AWS STS, Microsoft Entra workload identity, and Google Workload Identity or Workload Identity Federation
• A clear view of how a typical enterprise uses identity: single sign-on, group-based access, joiner-mover-leaver, non-human identities, and short-lived credentials as the default
• A clear view of how identity should work for agentic AI.
• Linux skills and direct experience with Linux containers and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of the CNCF ecosystem and experience with open source projects
• Demonstrated ability to listen to customers, stakeholders, and engineering and turn that into product decisions
• Ability to handle several competing priorities
• Bachelor's or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Willingness to travel up to 25%
  

The following are considered a plus:

• Hands-on configuration of OpenShift identity providers, OAuth, external OpenID Connect, or cloud credential modes used by managed OpenShift
• Upstream participation in Kubernetes SIG Auth or a related CNCF project
• Experience with SPIFFE and SPIRE, LDAP, or Active Directory
• Understanding of zero trust principles.
• Experience with compliance programs in which identity is a control, such as FedRAMP or PCI
• Prior experience with agile delivery and with Jira or a similar tool
• A track record of enterprise product launches

This role may come into contact with confidential or sensitive customer information requiring special treatment in accordance with Red Hat policies and applicable privacy laws.

The salary range for this position is $154,190.00 - $254,380.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

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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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