Product Owner - RHEL Lightspeed (Waterford Office, Ireland) Red Hat Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland
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Join to apply for the Product Owner - RHEL Lightspeed (Waterford Office, Ireland) role at Red Hat Red Hat is looking for a Product Owner to join the RHEL Lightspeed team and help drive the development of cutting-edge, AI-powered tools.
You'll serve as the connection between engineering, product management, support, and go-to-market functions, ensuring that development priorities are aligned with both Red Hat's long-term strategy and immediate customer needs.
In this role, you will work closely with a talented team of engineers building next-generation solutions using Generative AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Red Hat's open source ecosystem.
You'll collaborate with stakeholders across AI/ML, cloud, product, and customer-facing teams to define and refine a roadmap that delivers value through scalable, production-grade automation tools.
What You Will Do
Lead backlog management and prioritization for the RHEL Lightspeed team, ensuring clarity and alignment across features Partner with Product Management to translate customer and business needs into actionable, well-scoped work for engineering Work with engineers to break down epics into stories or tasks, define acceptance criteria, and guide sprint planning.
Clearly articulate product vision and priorities to the team, helping remove blockers and enabling autonomy and execution velocity.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Documentation, Support, Customer Success, and Marketing to ensure smooth delivery and feedback loops.
Proactively engage with upstream and downstream stakeholders and channels, acting as a bridge between internal teams and open source communities.
Provide visibility through delivery timelines, roadmap updates, and stakeholder communication.
Drive iteration based on continuous feedback and insights from metrics, users, and technical contributors.
What You Will Bring
Strong prioritization skills with the ability to balance technical constraints, business goals, and customer impact.
Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and tooling (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, OpenDataHub), and an interest in AI-powered automation and system administration tools.
Ability to communicate effectively across engineering and non-engineering audiences.
Experience in open source software development and distributed, global teams.
Hands-on understanding of Linux systems, ideally RPM-based distributions like RHEL.
Technical familiarity with inference optimization libraries (vLLM, DeepSpeed, OpenVINO).
Contributions to open source communities or public technical artifacts (e.g., GitHub repos, blog posts, conference talks).
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