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 the Automotive Kernel and Red Hat In-Vehicle OS.
In this role, you will be a member of the Red Hat In-Vehicle OS Engineering group, 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.
What You Will Do
Take a leadership role in a cross-functional group by defining priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, and driving execution for Automotive Kernel and In-Vehicle OS components.
Act as the primary point of contact between Product Management, Engineering, and similar roles to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
Work with the development team to 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-related (upstream) and product and services-related (downstream) communication channels and act as a voice for the team.
Engage in and ensure effective on-going communication between customers, customer-facing teams, 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.
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 product owner role, preferably in an Agile or Scrum environment.
Software development / Computer science / Computer engineer / Technical background in low-level development.
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 Have
Experience with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, or similar tools (would be a plus).
Experience with open-source development practices.
Knowledge of the Linux kernel, embedded systems, automotive standards (e.g., ISO 26262), or automotive software architectures.
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