Product Owner / Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat Lightspeed

Job Summary Red Hat is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our team as an Agile Product Owner (PO).  This role will support our teams working on the Red Hat Lightspeed Operations services available on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and the Red Hat Lightspeed on Premises offerings out of our Raleigh, NC office. As a Product Owner, you will drive the tactical execution of the product vision, translating high-level strategy into prioritized, actionable workstreams. You will operate within Red Hat’s open source and Agile framework to serve as the primary link between strategic Product Management and Engineering, ensuring that development efforts are consistently aligned with customer needs and business objectives. Key Responsibilities Product Backlog Ownership & Execution: Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog as the tactical, day-to-day decision-maker, ensuring it aligns with the Product Management roadmap and can react to unexpected work. This includes clearly defining and refining user stories, setting acceptance criteria, and serving as the primary source of requirements for the delivery team. Value Maximization and Delivery: Focus on maximizing the return on investment (ROI) by prioritizing the most strategic items using direct metrics. Formally accept the team's delivery against defined Acceptance Criteria, ensuring artifacts meet all productization requirements and expectations (Definition of Done). Stakeholder Alignment and Communication: Represent all stakeholders (users, customers, open source community, internal teams) to the development team. Ensure the team's vision, plans, and status are transparent to all stakeholders, maintaining ongoing communication across multiple time zones and functional groups. Collaborate and coordinate prioritization of work with POs across the organization, where needed (e.g. On-Premises offering). Agile Team Engagement: Actively participate in all team ceremonies and manage the flow of work through Agile Scrum sprints. Develop an understanding of the customer perspective and mentor associates on customer value and engagement in the open collaborative process. Required Skills and Qualifications (Competencies) 5 years of experience in a software engineering context designing and developing software solutions. Proven experience as a Product Owner focusing on team execution and delivering incremental value. Demonstrated ability to gather customer input and prioritize work effectively based on those customer needs. Strong understanding of Agile principles, including experience with Scrum methodology. Ability to understand and work with Product Management and other stakeholders on building a product vision for the product-delivery team and its role in a broader product. Demonstrated ability to pursue opportunities to mentor associates within the immediate team and provide constructive feedback. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present team delivery roadmap to stakeholders, communicate current status and represent the team when needed. Must be able to identify and track escalated issues impacting the team and carry the issue forward through to completion. Demonstrated experience working effectively across globally distributed, diverse teams and functional groups. Preferred Qualifications Experience with monitoring and incorporating feedback from internal channels as well as external open source communities is highly beneficial. Familiarity with defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs). Experience using prioritization techniques such as WSJF, RICE, or MoSCoW to make informed decisions about priorities. Experience working with large features by breaking them down into Epics and user Stories/Tasks. The salary range for this position is $118,600.00 - $195,680.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications. Pay Transparency Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including bu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)