Scott Harwell
Senior Manager - Product Management at Red Hat
- Role
- Senior Manager - Product Management at Red Hat
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Scott Harwell
Product manager with 20+ years delivering enterprise software, cloud platforms, and AI-powered solutions at scale. Currently managing a team of product managers across the full Ansible Automation Platform portfolio at Red Hat, spanning core platform, cloud services, analytics, AI automation, and operator-based delivery. Known for bridging deep technical expertise with business acumen to drive revenue growth, market differentiation, and customer success — across organizations from Fortune 500 enterprises to high-growth startups.
Experience
Senior Manager - Product Management
Oct 2025 — Present · US
Lead product management across the full Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) portfolio — part of Red Hat\'s $6.5B annual run-rate business growing >20% YoY (IBM Q3 2024 earnings) and named the Forrester Wave™ Leader in Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024 with the highest possible scores across 10 of 26 evaluated criteria. Domains of ownership span core platform, installation and operators, cloud offerings, automation analytics, workflows, and AI-driven automation. Core platform & installation: Oversaw the AAP 2.6 release (October 2025), delivering headline GA features including the on-premise automation dashboard and Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant. Strategically drove the platform\'s transition from RPM-based to containerized-only installation starting with AAP 2.7, modernizing delivery for OpenShift and hybrid cloud environments. Cloud offerings: Expanded cloud service and hyperscaler marketplace presence on AWS and Azure; enabled on-premise Lightspeed deployment via the containerized installer to address security- and compliance-sensitive enterprise requirements.
Education
North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
2000 — 2004
Skills
- Atlassian Jira
- C#
- .net
- Jquery
- Cakephp
- Xcode
- Rightnow
- Saas
- Customer Relations
- Xsl
- Javascript
- Apache
- Object Oriented Design
- Yui
- Ruby
- Xml
- Rest
- Ubuntu
- Ajax
- Html
- Data Integration
- Integration
- Debian
- Php
- Lamp
- Saml 2.0
- Codeigniter
- Os X
- Mac Os X
- Linux
- Git
- Web Development
- Business Analysis
- Software Development
- Html5
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Json
- Css
- Subversion
- Customer Service
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