Product Manager – Platform Engineering & Toolchain

Company Description

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

Abb Vie’s Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Infrastructure, Architecture, and Innovation group is seeking a Product Manager with experience in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience, Internal Developer Tool chains and Dev Ops.

This role supports product strategy, designand planning for multiple internal platform products that enable secure, compliant, scalable, and high-velocity software delivery across BTS.

You contribute to internal platform products using product management best practices, embedding reliability, security, and compliance as differentiated capabilities while improving developer experience, operational efficiency, andtime tovalue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate outcome‑oriented alignment across business, engineering, and BTO stakeholdersfor a suite of Platform Engineering andInternal
  
  Developer Toolchain products, ensuring enterprise requirements (security, compliance, reliability, cost) are delivered as built-in platform value.
• Champion end-to-end product management fromuser research,discovery and ideation through launch, adoption, and continuous optimization of internal platforms.
• Own platform capabilities such as CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, artifact management, and observability.
• Treatcompliance, security, and operational controls as first-class product features, embedding them directly into platforms and pipelines.
• Participateinuser research, journey mapping, stakeholder engagement, and market analysis to drive platform product decisions.
• Focus engineering teamson the why.
  
  Own business outcomes and user problems, not solutions—deeply understand developer pain points before prescribing platform features.
• Work closely with Engineering, Security, Architecture, Legal, and Compliance teams to deliver platforms that are compliant-by-design, scalable, and reusable.
• Use data analytics, KPIs, and OKRs to measure product success, guide prioritization, and drive evidence-based, customer-centric decisions.
• Manage and refine backlog items:define epics and features, ensure clarity of requirements, and enabletimelyoutcomesdelivery using Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Lean practices.
• Collaborate with other Product Managers to align platform strategies, manage interdependencies, and deliver a cohesive internal developer ecosystem.
• Guide cross-functional teams in delivering platform standards, paved roads, and self-service capabilities that accelerate product team delivery.
• Proactively monitor Dev Ops , Platform Engineering, cloud, and AI trends to ensure platform relevance, sustainability, and innovation.
• Facilitate outcome-oriented alignment across business, engineering, and BTO stakeholders, clearly communicating strategy, trade-offs, and progress.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7years’ experience, master’s degree with 6 years’ experience, PhD and2 years’ experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager contributing to platform, infrastructure, or internal developer-facing products.
• Knowledge of Agile product management, product discovery frameworks (Lean, Dual-Track Agile, Jobs-To-be-Done Framework, Continuous Discovery), and outcome-basedroadmapping.
• Strong understanding of Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, CI/CD, cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and developer experience.
• Prior hands-on engineering experience or deep technical background in software delivery.
• Experience working with cross-disciplinary teams including Engineering, SRE, Security, and Architecture.
• Proven ability to engage engineering teams as a technical peer—can discuss architectural trade-offs, evaluate technical debt, and contribute to design discussions.
• Strong analytical,…