Product Owner

About the Job

Red Hat is looking for a Product Owner to act as the liaison between a cross-functional engineering team and its stakeholders. You will own and continuously adjust the product-delivery team backlog to react to both short-term business needs and the long-term vision in the area of virtualization and storage.

In this role you will be a member of the RHEL Engineering team responsible for understanding and helping to convey inputs from Product Management, Engineering Management, Support, and Upstream communities to the team. This position is a great opportunity to grow leadership skills while working alongside some of the brightest developers and stakeholders in the open source industry. This position is for a Hybrid position in Brno, and the associate is expected to be able to work with a remote, global team.

What you will do:

• Take a leadership role in a cross-functional team by defining priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, and driving execution for RHEL
• Act as the primary point of contact between Product Management, Engineering, and similar roles to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
• Define, own, and ruthlessly prioritize the product backlog based on business value, customer issues, and strategic goals
• Define Acceptance Criteria and ensure that the team understands the "what" to work on.
• Proactively monitor community related (upstream) and product and services related (downstream) communication channels and act as a voice for the team.

What you will bring:

• Intensive experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, preferably in an Agile or Scrum SW Engineering environment
• Experience working effectively with a distributed, international team
• Strength in prioritizing development and test work while managing product management expectations
• Ability to resolve conflicting priorities and communicate key insights from multiple sources (e.g., product feedback, technical discussions, community input) to stakeholders and engineering teams
• Knowledge of RHEL kernel and userspace code relating to virtualization is a big plus
• Solid communication, prioritization, presentation, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English
• Experience with tools such as Jira or GitHub/ GitLab
• Exposure to virtualization/cloud platforms like VMware, KVM is a plus

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