Product Owner - Automotive Kernel, Red Hat In-Vehicle OS (Ireland)
Red Hat · Waterford City, Ireland
About this role
Red Hat is hiring a mid-level Product Manager based in Waterford City, Ireland. The posting calls out experience with Kubernetes, Git, Jira, Linux.
- Role
- Product Manager
- Function
- product
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Waterford City, Ireland
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from Red Hat careersRed 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.