Jobs at Red Hat in United States, Helena

About the job:

The program manager will be responsible for executing the tooling strategy and management system for the Red Hat Tech Sales Practices team. This role will align very closely to the regional and global Red Hat tech sales functions, as well as APM and Operations team. You will be responsible for leading the adoption management system: Defining metrics, target methodology, and reporting process. This includes developing reports and analyzing data sets to provide guidance to our APM and Operations team. You will be responsible for leading the strategy definition and facilitating execution around tooling to make the Tech Sales team more productive, with a focus on Red Hat Sales Cloud.. This includes preparing briefings to senior leadership, aligning stakeholders, facilitating decision-making, tracking and reporting progress, and identifying and mitigating risks. Being highly organized is a must as you will be managing multiple initiatives at a time. You’ll need to have clear written and verbal communication and documented planning skills to succeed in this role.

This position has a direct reporting structure to the Global Sr Director, Tech Sales Practices.

What you will do:

• Execute the Productivity and Tooling strategy to ensure SA&A associates and leaders are able to efficiently execute their role.

• Use of Red Hat Sales Cloud, analytics tools and AI to solve tech sales challenges.

• Ensure the defined management system and metrics are consistently executed across all regions, focusing on product adoption

• Provide data analytics and insights to leadership

• Identify and execute task automation to make the tech sales more efficient

SUCCESS MEASURES AND KPIs

• Increased product consumption and adoption maturity

• Account Revenue Growth

What you will bring:

• Analytical and process-oriented mindset; ability to mine data to make data-driven decisions

• Experience with account management tooling, eg Red Hat Sales Cloud

• Experience with reporting and analytics tooling, eg, Snowflake, Tableau, Smartsheet

• Experience and tenacity to drive transformational change through a large, worldwide organization

• Demonstrated ability to work in a distributed, multicultural organization in a global and geo matrix.

• Very organized with strong project management skills; ability to implement structure (processes, frameworks) into daily functions

• Comfortable managing and solving complex business problems with no clear solution

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written and presentation skills

• Customer service focus, including the ability to deliver multiple priority projects with high customer satisfaction in a rapidly changing environment.

The salary range for this position is $86,770.00 - $138,850.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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

What you will do:

• Commitment to providing an exceptional customer experience by using professional communication and applying product knowledge and deep troubleshooting to perform direct actions in cluster environments to resolve various issues.

• Contribute to global initiatives and projects to constantly reduce customer effort, improve tooling, and design and write automation software to improve efficiency.

• Act as the direct contact and advisor for customer inquiries and issues with their Cloud Services through our Customer Portal, conference calls, and remote access.

• Proactively analyze cluster status, identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions.

• Record customer interactions including investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution of issues, to document diagnostic steps and issue resolution to create reusable solutions for future incidents.

• Create and maintain knowledge articles aligned with the KCS (Knowledge-Centered Service) methodology.

• Partner with internal teams and external parties to deliver seamless infrastructure support for Red Hat’s Cloud Services.

• Manage incident and issue workloads to ensure that all customer issues are handled and resolved in a timely manner.

• Maintain a strong work ethic, able to work effectively as part of a team, and focus on customers and resolving their issues.

• Be available to perform weekend shift duties on a rotational schedule.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical support or solutions engineering role.

• Proven experience in Infrastructure Implementation, Deployment, Administration, and Production Support of container technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g., CRI-O, Kubernetes, xKS, Docker, OpenShift Container Platform).

• Experience with developer workflows, Continuous Integration (e.g., Jenkins), and Continuous Deployment paradigms.

• Exceptional technical, analytical, and troubleshooting skills using tools like curl, strace, oc (kubectl), and Wireshark analysis to investigate and form precise action plans for issue remediation with components such as networking, system performance issues, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Service Mesh, and RESTful API calls.

• Experience working with tools surrounding the Kubernetes ecosystem such as Prometheus, Grafana, FluentD, etc.

• Experience working with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and monitoring and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Splunk).

• Proficient scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Go) to convert manual and maintenance functions into fully orchestrated automation is a plus.

• Ability to operate in complex, highly secure, and highly available environments and interact with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) domain experts maintaining those environments.

• Familiarity with established ITIL practices such as Incident, Change, Problem, and Release Management.

• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with a desire to mentor other members of the support team and share technical knowledge in a helpful and timely fashion.

• Experience logging issues and working with issue tracking tools such as Jira.

• Ability to work effectively as part of an agile team, actively communicate status, and complete deliverables on schedule with a strong sense of initiative and ownership.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Ability to work effectively and collaborate within a geographically distributed, global team.

The salary range for this position is $84,400.00 - $134,970.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

● 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