Product Owner - Subscriptions
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Red Hat
Job Description
About the Job:
Red Hat is looking for a Product Owner to act as the liaison between cross-functional engineering teams and their stakeholders. You will own and continuously adjust the product-delivery team’s backlog to react to both short-term business needs and the long-term vision in the area.
This role will work closely with the Red Hat Subscription Management teams who deploy subscription services for public hyperscalers. These are next generation solutions that integrate directly with our cloud provider partners and Red Hat’s back office to provide our customers with content download services and subscription lifecycle information.
In this role you will be a member of the overall Subscriptions & Spend Engineering team in Core Platforms responsible for understanding and helping to convey inputs from Product Management, Engineering Management, Support, and the upstream community. 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 will you do?
Take a leadership role in a cross-functional team by defining priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, and driving execution for Red Hat Subscription Management.
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 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, and stakeholders and the engineering teams to allow for continuous feedback and improvement.
What will you 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 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
Experience with shared ownership of software by a globally collaborative team
The following are considered as a plus:
Experience with Jira, GitHub, GitLab or similar (would be a plus)
Experience with open source development practices
Experience with enterprise integration
Knowledge in public hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
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