Product Owner, Enterprise Data & Analytics

The Red Hat Enterprise Data and Analytics (EDA) team is looking for a Product Owner to join our growing team. In this role, you will serve as a critical member of our product team by supporting our analytics-driven product vision, creating relevant business needs, building and refining our products, and using product management principles in an open and collaborative environment. 

As a Product Owner, you’ll play a key role in accelerating our journey to Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS). You’ll work closely with customers and technical teams to spread the product vision, design principles, and best practices. You’ll be knowledgeable in technical software development life cycle principles, modern data and analytics technology stacks, data flow architectures, and agile software development best practices. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• Build, refine, and deliver products based on strategy and business and data needs.
• Actively engage and collaborate with product, design, engineering, and data and analytics teams to oversee the entire data life cycle
• Act as customer advocate by providing the business vision and customer context needed for the team to support translating requirements, prioritization, and delivery outcomes
• Define and manage epics, features, and user stories, including ensuring sprint priorities and outcomes are fulfilled against business requirements and in alignment with overall product vision
• Influence, educate, maintain, and prioritize the requirements backlog while communicating and managing expectations with stakeholders
• Translate requirements for larger data initiatives into smaller, actionable pieces to be delivered in increments
• Balance the strategy, governance, and implementation of data-related initiatives and facilitate conversations between all impacted stakeholders who consume the product
• Participate in project planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Develop and maintain standards for testing and progress visibility
• Champion a product environment that is customer centric, agile, outcome-oriented, and cross collaborative
• Provides encouragement, recognition, and support to the team

• 5+ years of experience working in agile technical product management or similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Thorough understanding of the software development life cycle and agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Proven analytical and product management skills, including in-depth understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into operational requirements
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to present visions to stakeholders
• Innovative and analytical problem-solving skills with close attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines 
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a collaborative environment
• Excellent business acumen and understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives

The following will be a plus: 

• Ability to think systematically and effectively when navigating ambiguously defined business problems
• Thrive in fast-paced, start-up like environment with a growing team
• High standards for quality of work with an entrepreneurial excitement for building new products and services 
• Industry-recognized product management certification or training

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Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more! 

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.