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 for the core platform, including the dashboard, API, and self-hosted setups. You will manage the daily backlog, translate customer and community feedback into actionable technical requirements, and collaborate closely with engineering, support, and sales. This role requires a hands-on approach to shaping product processes within a fast-moving, small team environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day backlog in Linear by triaging issues and writing clear tickets with acceptance criteria.
• Build a system for collecting and synthesizing feedback from customers, GitHub, and community channels into well-framed problems.
• Engage directly with users to understand their infrastructure setups and specific technical requirements.
• Plan development cycles with engineering, breaking down large features into shippable components.
• Communicate product updates, release notes, and changelogs to internal stakeholders and external users.

Required skills

• Product Management
• B2B SaaS
• Technical documentation
• Networking
• IP
• DNS
• Routing
• Firewalls
• VPN
• Linear
• Jira
• 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 similar role in a technical B2B SaaS, infrastructure, or developer tools company
• Technical background with the ability to read API documentation and understand technical discussions

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 focused on an open-source, community-driven approach to replace traditional centralized VPNs for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.