Overview

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.

Job summary

The Red Hat Software Engineering team is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our program management team in Raleigh, NC or Westford, MA. In this role, you will be an integral part of an engineering team responsible for planning, developing, testing, and releasing cross-product software solutions. You’ll work with geographically distributed engineering teams focusing on different projects and coordinate their project deliverables and schedules. You’ll also develop and nurture key relationships with product management, development management, and quality engineering management. As a Senior Program Manager, you’ll need to have expertise in both program management and business analysis to understand the requirements and business drivers for a variety of Red Hat’s management offerings and projects and use this to facilitate collaboration. This position can be based either in the U.S. or the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.

Primary job responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate complex, multi-phased programs by guiding cross-functional teams across multiple offerings to define, scope, plan, and deliver high-quality software
  • Oversee all aspects of new and existing programs or projects from start to finish
  • Develop and maintain the master plan, schedule, and status for multiple releases
  • Develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, while fostering an environment of collaboration, trust, and accountability within and across departments
  • Coordinate recurring team meetings
  • Identify risks, issues, and problems in software engineering processes and develop detailed recovery, mitigation, and scaling plans

Required skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • 5-10 years of experience delivering technology-related services or offerings
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional, internationally distributed environment and effectively use traditional and virtual communications
  • Experience with multiple software development and project management methodologies, tools, and requirements management and defect-tracking systems
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  • Practical expertise with open source software and Linux is a plus

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, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

About Red Hat

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

We’re a billion dollar S&P 500 company offering solutions from Linux to middleware, storage to cloud, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services.

It's rewarding to work at a well-established, mission-driven company. You get the freedom, autonomy, and responsibility to impact a company that is changing the technology industry. We hire creative, passionate people who know how to create opportunity and make a difference.

It's thrilling to work in a place where people really believe in what they are doing. To Red Hatters, open source is a noble cause, a force for good. Who wouldn't be excited to get paid for contributing to something like that?

Red Hat is where some of the most passionate, creative, and high-performing people in the technology industry come together to make a difference. Every day is full of opportunities to have a meaningful, tangible impact.

Our work feels important because it is. Transparency and collaboration are changing the world, and we've proven that you can build a billion dollar company on those principles.