Staff Product Manager – Linux Platforms and Ecosystem

What you'll do

• Set product roadmaps and translate market and customer needs into requirements, priorities, and execution plans.
• Lead Linux upstreaming and distribution enablement with engineering teams, vendors, communities, OEMs, and partners.
• Drive AI developer and enterprise platform enablement, including local AI inference and enterprise capabilities.

What they ask for

• Experience defining software products, platform roadmaps, technical requirements, and cross-functional execution plans.
• Experience with Linux operating systems, open-source ecosystems, and upstream development; including Linux upstreaming or work with relevant communities.
• Experience enabling at least one major Linux distribution or equivalent enterprise/community distribution.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical field; 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience. Advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years of experience (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years).

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Experience with upstream initiatives, enterprise Linux certification and release planning, AI/ML frameworks, containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, Arm-based platforms, or Linux platform commercialization.

Pay

$181,800.00 - $272,600.00 (USD, base salary)

Tools

Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, PyTorch, TensorFlow

AI focus

Enables Linux AI developer platforms and local AI inference across CPU, GPU, NPU, and heterogeneous compute resources; defines requirements for AI frameworks and runtimes.