Senior AI Infrastructure Ecosystem Tech Strategist

About the role:

Red Hat is seeking a Senior AI Ecosystem Tech Strategist to serve as the lead technical strategist for identifying, prioritizing, and organizing joint offerings with our strategic AI infrastructure ecosystem partners.   You will help drive alignment and attach of Red Hat’s AI portfolio to key strategic partner offerings.   You will be responsible for building product and engineering relationships with key strategic partners to align future roadmaps for joint offerings.  You will work in lockstep with the NVIDIA and AI Ecosystem Leads to cultivate & prioritize engagement, outcomes, and strategic milestones.  

Mission Statement

Your mission is to drive aligned, impactful joint offerings with Red Hat's most strategic AI Infrastructure partners in order to accelerate the adoption of AI in the enterprise and Red Hat's AI platforms across strategic markets.

What You Will Do:

• Lead Technical Strategy for Joint Offerings: Act as the primary technical lead for defining the vision of joint offerings. Direct engagement with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and OEM (HPE, Dell, Lenovo) product leadership to align future roadmaps and identify strategic opportunities.  Engage key GTM leaders to align those offerings into VAR, GSI, and ISV based offerings.  

• Requirement Sourcing & Prioritization: Serve as a primary conduit to the Ecosystem Engineering team. You will source and prioritize the technical requirements for what needs to be architected, prototyped, or co-created, providing the strategic "why" and "what" so Engineering can execute the "how."

• Strategy-Led Architecture: Perform initial architectural scoping specifically to identify the technical gaps and requirements needed for new offerings, ensuring a smooth hand-off to engineering for detailed design.

• AI Ecosystem Strategy: Lead contribution of key partner product, solution, and use-case strategies for AI Infrastructure partners in the overall AI Ecosystem strategy.   

• Bridge the GTM:  Collaborate with the AI Tech Sales team and the AI Tech Sales Eco Global Leader to ensure that technical offering definitions are successfully transitioned into field-ready sales motions by establishing early input and ongoing feedback mechanisms.

What You Will Bring:

• Strategic Technical Offering Lead: 10+ years of experience in technical leadership with a proven ability to drive joint strategy with global partners like NVIDIA or major OEMs.

• Technical Product Diplomacy: Expert ability to source requirements from external partners and prioritize them effectively for internal engineering and product teams.

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to use high-level architecture as a tool for requirement gathering rather than an end-goal, knowing when to hand off to deep engineering specialists.

• AI/ML Commercial Fluency: Deep understanding of the business drivers for AI, including private compute, the cost of inference at scale, and sovereign AI requirements.

• Product Manager Mindset: Ability to identify market opportunities and direct resources to build solutions that fill them.

• Collaborative Precision: Excellence in defining clear technical handoffs to both Engineering (for build) and GTM teams (for sale).

• Team Player: Be a leader in open communication, open culture, and lead cross functional, cross company teams to success with a positive and results driven mindset.  

• Technical Expertise: Knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, RHEL, Inference, and the NVIDIA software portfolio (NVAIE).

The salary range for this position is $147,820.00 - $243,690.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

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Benefits
●    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
●    Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States. 

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