Product Owner - Automotive Kernel, Red Hat In-Vehicle OS (Ireland)

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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