Product Manager, Platform Engineering & Toolchain

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines that address significant health challenges.

Abb Vie’s Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Infrastructure, Architecture, and Innovation group is seeking a Product Manager focused on Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, and Internal Developer Tool chains. The role supports product strategy, design, and planning for internal platform products that enable secure, compliant, scalable, and high‑velocity software delivery across BTS.

• Champion end-to-end product management from continuous user research and discovery through launch, adoption, and optimization of internal platforms.
• Focus engineering teams on the why, owning business outcomes and user problems before prescribing platform features.
• Facilitate outcome‑oriented alignment across business, engineering, and BTO stakeholders, ensuring enterprise requirements such as security, compliance, reliability, and cost are embedded as built‑in platform value.
• Own platform capabilities such as CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, artifact management, and observability.
• Treat compliance, security, and operational controls as first‑class product features and embed them directly into platforms and pipelines.
• Conduct user research, journey mapping, and assumption testing to validate product decisions and change direction when evidence indicates otherwise.
• Use data analytics, KPIs, and OKRs to measure product success, guide prioritization, and drive evidence‑based, customer‑centric decisions.
• Work closely with Engineering, Security, Architecture, Legal, and Compliance teams to deliver platforms that are compliant‑by‑design, scalable, and reusable.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of experience;
  Master’s Degree with 6+ years; or PhD with 2+ years of relevant 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, Continuous Discovery), and outcome‑based road mapping.
• Evidence of real user research and discovery practice, including user testing and iterative direction changes.
• 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, discuss architectural trade‑offs, evaluate technical debt, and contribute to design discussions.
• Strong analytical, user empathy, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, ability to build trust, influence without authority, and align teams in a complex, matrixed enterprise environment.

• Experience in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare, finance) with familiarity in GxP, SOX, GDPR, or similar frameworks.
• Hands‑on exposure to Platform Engineering models such as internal developer platforms, golden paths, and paved roads.
• Experience delivering Compliance‑as‑a‑Platform or Security‑as‑a‑Platform capabilities.
• Background working closely with Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Dev Ops organizations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and navigate ambiguity while driving business outcomes.
• Practiced in continuous discovery methods such as opportunity solution trees,…