Red hat Product Owner - Core Kernel Organization Brno Office Czech Republic 

Czechia, Southeast, Brno 

392319913

What you will do

• Take a leadership role in a cross-functional team by defining priorities, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, and driving execution for Kernel Development and Maintenance.

• 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 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 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 have:

• Experience with Jira, Bugzilla, GitHub, GitLab or similar (would be a plus)

• Experience with open source development practices

• Knowledge in the Linux Kernel