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Job Summary
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 High Availability, Storage and Filesystems.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. Thisposition is a great opportunity to grow leadership skills while workingalongside some of the brightest developers and stakeholders in the opensource industry.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 High Availability, working closely with other teams such as RHEL Storage and RHEL Filesystems, as well as other groups across Red Hat. Act as the primary point of contact between Product Management, Engineering, and similar roles to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables. With the engineering team, split features and epics into stories or tasks. Define Acceptance Criteria and ensure that the team understands the what to work on. Communicate product goals effectively to ensure the team can work autonomously and remain unblocked. Provide key information, such as delivery plans, by acting as an information radiator to the teams and stakeholders. Proactively monitor community-relatedcommunity related (upstream) and product and service-relatedservices related (downstream) communication channels and act as a voice for the team. Engage in and ensure effective ongoingon-going communication between customers, customer-facingcustomer facing teams, and stakeholders, and the engineering teams to allow for continuous feedback and improvement.
What you will bring
Strength in prioritizing development work while managing product management expectations Knowledge of RHEL kernel and userspace code relating to filesystems, storage and high availability. 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. 3+ years of experience in a software development or product ownership role, preferably in an Agile or Scrum environment. Solid communication, presentation, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills Highly self-motivated and proactive in engaging stakeholders to drive clarity and alignment. Excellent written and verbal skills in English Experience with shared ownership of software by a globally collaborative team
Nice to haveExperience with Jira, Bugzilla, GitHub, GitLab or similar (would be a plus) Experience with open source development practices