Senior Program Manager - Technical

About the Job:

Red Hat’s User Experience Engineering (UXE) team is seeking a Senior Program Manager - Technical to lead high-impact, cross-functional platform initiatives. This role will operate at the intersection of engineering, design, and business. You will provide strategic program leadership for platform capabilities that underpin critical user and content experiences across Red Hat’s engineering ecosystem. You’ll drive alignment across multiple teams, initiatives, and stakeholders to ensure we deliver scalable, resilient, and user-centric platform solutions. This is a strategic and influential role for a systems thinker who can connect the dots, influence without authority, and create clarity in complexity.

What will you do?

• Meticulous reporting skills, such that the status of projects are always clear and highly visible

• Create and maintain timelines and key results, ensuring that teams are engaged in the mission

• Present and report on progress to stakeholders

• Keep privacy and security standards top of mind, as you plan roadmaps for platform solutions

• Leverage best practices processes and demonstrate prolific project management skills to guide execution cross-functionally across all stakeholders

• Collaborate closely with other UXE workstream leads to drive results across the org

• Operate in an inclusive meritocracy to solve problems effectively and efficiently

What will you bring?

• Ability to work on high-visibility projects which require fast turnaround on communications

• Tenacity to track down necessary teams and PMs and coordinate collaboration

• 5+ years of program, project, or product management experience, with at least 2 years leading platform or infrastructure-related programs

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Solid project management skills; detail-oriented and thorough in your approach to projects

• Experience building and executing complex communication plans across several orgs

• Experience working with and serving teams of engineering, business, and design stakeholders

• Familiarity with agile practices and ability to balance engineering and UX agility with longer-term stakeholder planning needs

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow a must

• Desire to work in an open organization; open source participation a plus

• Familiarity with security and privacy standards, such as data governance, GDPR, SOC2, or other internal compliance frameworks a plus

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

Inclusion at Red Hat Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

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