Program Manager - Tech Sales Practices jobs at Red Hat in United States, Saint Paul

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

• Support enterprise customers implementing Red Hat Ansible Automated Platform solutions

• Serve as the primary customer advocate within Red Hat, facilitating communication and collaboration across teams

• Deliver Red Hat portfolio roadmap updates and assist customers with product upgrades and implementation

• Rapidly learn and stay current with new technologies, including container orchestration, registries, build strategies, microservices, and automation environments

• Specialize in Ansible Automation Platform, providing expertise on its implementation and use

• Perform technical reviews to proactively identify and prevent issues, sharing knowledge across teams

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the customer's technical infrastructures, environments, hardware, and product usage

• Investigate and respond to support requests via various channels, including online, phone, video call, chat, etc.

• Provide strategic advice and guidance on current and future Red Hat products and solutions

• Manage customer cases, maintaining clear and concise documentation

• Collaborate with engineering, R&D, product management, and technical support teams

• Create and maintain technical documentation for issue resolution and knowledge sharing

• Manage and grow customer relationships through attentive, relationship-based support

• Visit customer sites as needed and ensure exceptional service experience

What You Will Bring

• Experience in a technical support, software development or engineering, or quality assurance organization

• Extensive technical knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automated Platform and similar automation technologies, including Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc; broad knowledge of automation practices and principles

• Experience with configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration technologies

• Ability to manage and grow existing customer relationships by delivering proactive, relationship-based support

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to convey complex information to customers clearly and concisely

• Ability to manage multiple issues and projects

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related discipline is preferred

• Residence within the U.S. Central or Eastern Time Zone

• Software engineering background; experience with RPM-based Linux technologies

• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative is preferred

• Experience working in DevOps environments preferred

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes preferred

• Experience deploying applications in cloud environments and developing containerized applications a plus

• Good comprehension of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) concepts preferred

• Familiarity with source code management tools like Git or Apache Subversion (SVN) a plus

The salary range for this position is $94,550.00 - $151,170.00. 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

• Support enterprise customers in implementing automated and containerized cloud application platform solutions

• Learn new technologies quickly, including topics like container orchestration, container registries, container build strategies, and microservices on container platforms

• Develop relationships with key business and IT stakeholders and become an expert on a customer’s implementation by understanding their top business goals and priorities

• Perform technical reviews and share knowledge to proactively identify and prevent issues

• Gain understanding of customer technical infrastructures, hardware, and offerings and serve as a customer advocate within Red Hat

• Collaborate with the engineering, research and development, product management, and technical support teams

• Create customer engagement plans and keep the documentation on the customer's environment updated

• Create documentation regarding customer issues and technical details on how to resolve them

• Manage and grow customer relationships by delivering attentive, relationship-based support

• Build trust with customers and serve as their advocate within Red Hat

• Forewarn customers of technology changes or potential disruptions to their service and advice on mitigation strategies.

• Provide advice and guidance to customers about their current and future Red Hat products

• Troubleshoot technical issues and drive issue escalation with Red Hat and customer teams

• Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership

• Communicate how specific Red Hat cloud solutions and our cloud roadmap align to customer use cases

• Travel occasionally to visit regional customers

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience working in a support, development, engineering, IT, or a quality assurance organization

• Administration experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

• Expertise in enterprise cloud solutions like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), containers, Kubernetes, cloud management, and IT automation

• Ability to manage and grow existing enterprise customer relationships by delivering proactive, relationship-based support

• Competent comprehension of enterprise architecture and strategic business drivers

• Ability to manage multiple issues and projects with shifting priorities and timelines

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and ability to convey complex information to customers clearly and concisely in English

• Ability to travel for customer visits and events within the region

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent in a technology-related discipline, ideally computer science or engineering is a plus

• Good comprehension of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) concepts a plus

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) a plus

The salary range for this position is $94,550.00 - $151,170.00. 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

• Support enterprise customers implementing Red Hat Ansible Automated Platform solutions

• Serve as the primary customer advocate within Red Hat, facilitating communication and collaboration across teams

• Deliver Red Hat portfolio roadmap updates and assist customers with product upgrades and implementation

• Rapidly learn and stay current with new technologies, including container orchestration, registries, build strategies, microservices, and automation environments

• Specialize in Ansible Automation Platform, providing expertise on its implementation and use

• Perform technical reviews to proactively identify and prevent issues, sharing knowledge across teams

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the customer's technical infrastructures, environments, hardware, and product usage

• Investigate and respond to support requests via various channels, including online, phone, video call, chat, etc.

• Provide strategic advice and guidance on current and future Red Hat products and solutions

• Manage customer cases, maintaining clear and concise documentation

• Collaborate with engineering, R&D, product management, and technical support teams

• Create and maintain technical documentation for issue resolution and knowledge sharing

• Manage and grow customer relationships through attentive, relationship-based support

• Visit customer sites as needed and ensure exceptional service experience

What You Will Bring

• Experience in a technical support, software development or engineering, or quality assurance organization

• Extensive technical knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automated Platform and similar automation technologies, including Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc; broad knowledge of automation practices and principles

• Experience with configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration technologies

• Ability to manage and grow existing customer relationships by delivering proactive, relationship-based support

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to convey complex information to customers clearly and concisely

• Ability to manage multiple issues and projects

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related discipline is preferred

• Residence within the U.S. Central or Eastern Time Zone

• Software engineering background; experience with RPM-based Linux technologies

• Experience with Linux system administration, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative is preferred

• Experience working in DevOps environments preferred

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes preferred

• Experience deploying applications in cloud environments and developing containerized applications a plus

• Good comprehension of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) concepts preferred

• Familiarity with source code management tools like Git or Apache Subversion (SVN) a plus

The salary range for this position is $94,550.00 - $151,170.00. 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