Associate Product Manager

As an Associate Product Manager at our company, you will be responsible for leading the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of an enterprise-grade platform consisting of microservices deployed on the Red Hat OpenShift Platform. This platform acts as the cornerstone for scalable, secure, and resilient digital applications within our organization. Your role will involve shaping the product vision, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring a top-notch developer experience for application teams utilizing the platform. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Product Strategy & Roadmap:** Define and own the product roadmap for the microservices platform, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, business goals, and application development needs. - **Customer-Centric Design:** Engage with internal stakeholders and development teams to understand requirements and pain points, translating them into platform capabilities and service offerings. - **Lifecycle Ownership:** Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of platform services including ideation, prioritization, development, launch, and ongoing optimization. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption of microservices on OpenShift. - **Governance & Compliance:** Define and enforce standards for microservice design, deployment, observability, and governance within the platform ecosystem. - **Developer Enablement:** Drive initiatives to enhance developer onboarding, documentation, SDKs, and automation pipelines for building and integrating with platform services. - **Metrics & Feedback:** Establish KPIs to measure platform adoption, performance, and reliability. Continuously gather feedback to inform future enhancements. - **Provide mentorship and leadership to junior product managers and cross-functional teams.** **Qualifications:** - Bachelor's degree in engineering, master's degree in engineering/management preferred - Minimum 8+ years of total experience, with at least 5 years in product management of software/middleware/platform products - Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API-first design, and container orchestration using OpenShift (or Kubernetes) - Experience managing developer platforms, SaaS/PaaS products, or internal service marketplaces - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling is a plus - Proven ability to define product strategy, release management strategy, and processes - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills - Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and using tools like Jira and Confluence By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that values innovation and collaboration. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about driving product excellence and are eager to contribute to the success of our organization.,