Technical Product Owner

About the role

As a Technical Product Owner at NetBird, you will serve as the primary link between users and the engineering team, managing the core platform's backlog and development cycles. You will translate customer and community feedback into well-scoped technical requirements while working closely with the CTO to shape product processes in a fast-moving environment. This role requires deep technical engagement, including reproducing issues and collaborating with engineers on implementation details.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day backlog in Linear.
• Triage incoming issues, write clear tickets with context and acceptance criteria and keep priorities current.
• Build a system for collecting feedback from customers, GitHub, community channels, support and sales, and turn it into actionable problems.
• Talk to users and customers directly to understand their setups and the problems behind requests.
• Plan regular cycles with engineering, break features into shippable pieces, and follow them through to release.
• Keep the company informed on shipping updates, release notes, and changelogs.
• Close the loop with feedback providers and identify patterns to inform roadmap discussions.

Required skills

• Product Management
• B2B SaaS
• Infrastructure
• Developer tools
• API documentation
• Networking
• IP
• DNS
• Routing
• Firewalls
• VPN
• Linear
• Jira
• Technical writing
• AI tools

Nice to have

• Zero trust
• Open source
• CLI products
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud infrastructure
• Product analytics

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a similar role at a technical B2B SaaS, infrastructure, or developer tools company.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity incentives
• Hybrid work environment

About the Company

NetBird is a German software company developing a zero-trust network security platform designed to be accessible and affordable for teams of all sizes. Since launching on GitHub in 2021, the company has built a community-driven, open-source solution that replaces traditional centralized VPNs for hundreds of thousands of users and machines worldwide.