Technical Product Owner - Core Services
RemoteUnited Kingdom or United States
Job Summary
Translate VP-level strategy into a sequenced backlog of problems, user stories, and acceptance criteria to drive rapid delivery and iteration for Core Services. Maintain a disciplined cadence of backlog refinement and sprint readiness while keeping work thin-sliced for frequent, high-quality releases. Leverage hands-on DevOps experience and deep cloud expertise to review technical designs, reason about tradeoffs, and ensure solution implementations meet high bars for reliability and customer trust. Collaborate daily with engineering leads, architects, and security teams to prioritize enhancements that improve speed, safety, and operational simplicity. Conduct 3–5 customer calls weekly to validate assumptions and pressure-test tradeoffs, ensuring product requirements account for real-world IAM boundaries and auditability. Define clear metrics for success including adoption, activation, and reliability signals to instrument learning and guide prioritization.
Required Qualifications
- 7–10 years of hands-on experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, or a similar roles working with or building products for public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
- A strong product sense for turning messy problems into clear scope and shipped value - without waiting for perfect information
- Systems thinking: Ability to reason about complex distributed systems, architectural tradeoffs, and long-term platform evolution
- Prioritization: Demonstrated ability to balance customer needs, engineering constraints, and platform investments when making prioritization decisions
- Deep curiosity and technical fluency in cloud fundamentals (cost/billing concepts, identity/IAM, networking, compute, Kubernetes, observability, automation), and experience building solutions that leverage or focus on these technologies
- Excellent communication skills: you can explain complex ideas simply, facilitate alignment, and confidently engage with customers and experts
- A bias for action and continuous improvement: you ship, measure, learn, and iterate - building capabilities that become a meaningful competitive differentiator
Desired Qualifications
- Coding experience is a plus - enough to collaborate effectively with engineers, reason about feasibility, and understand system behaviors
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