Product owner

About Offensive Security

Founded in 2006 by the creators of Kali Linux, OffSec (formerly Offensive Security) is the powerhouse behind the world’s most respected cybersecurity training and certifications. We don’t just teach theory—we live by our TRY HARDER ethos. Our hands-on, real-world approach builds elite defenders and helps close the global cybersecurity talent gap. At OffSec, you won’t just “work”—you’ll build, challenge, and grow alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our global team spans 45+ countries and includes published authors, keynote speakers, government advisors, and innovators shaping the future of cybersecurity. Work from anywhere. Collaborate globally. Make an impact. If you’re ready to push boundaries and be part of something bigger— JOIN US.

About the Job

We have a growing distributed team of project & product management, and software web developers located throughout North America and Europe. We are designing and building a new web platform that is the foundation for the day-to-day sales, marketing and student learning activities. It will be a high-traffic, consumer-facing, e-commerce web platform employing all the new modern software development technology, processes, and tools.

The Product Owner serves as the customer proxy responsible for working with product management and other stakeholders (customers, sales, customer and student success, other product owners, etc.) to define and set priorities. The Product Owner will also work with the rest of the development team to set product backlog priorities, detail user stories and clarify team’s questions.

Duties and responsibilities

• Identify and validate user pain points. Gathering the context and feedback necessary to build solutions into the product.
• Builds, edits and maintains the product specs consisting of user stories, business rules.
• Defines user stories (including pre-conditions and acceptance criteria) and provides clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
• Reviews and prioritizes the product backlog as part of the preparation work for iteration or sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other product owners, if the case.
• During the planning meeting, the product owner communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team agrees on the plan.
• Reviews the stories and validates that the story meets the business needs and the associated acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its definition of done.
• Collaborates with their team and any other stakeholders in the sprint / iteration demo.
• Use AI tools like Claude, Lovable, etc. to prototype and create designs for handoff to Engineers.
• Use AI tools to create deliverables, not solely rely on Figma/Photoshop.
• Participates in sprint retrospective where the teams gather to improve the processes.
• Collaborates on execution plans with technical leads, product managers, other product owners and project managers for each sprint, based on in-depth understanding of the product roadmap, technology needs, and development, testing, and deployment lifecycles.
• Work directly with Product Managers and Engineers.
• Participates in all phases of software development (from concept to design to test to deploy to monitor to defect resolution).
• Cultivates an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrates a strong sense of ownership.
• Communicates effectively, written, verbal, structured and unstructured to keep all the stakeholders in the loop on project status.
• Develops, measures and monitors key metrics to know how the team is doing, the projects are progressing, and quality of the deliverables and code.
• Encourages sharing of knowledge and leads by example.
• Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to excellence, team culture, and living the OffSec values.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as product manager or product owner in designing and documenting software requirement specifications and coordinating their implementation with the development team.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working in agile software development teams playing roles such as product owner, business analyst or project manager.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Good knowledge of tools for managing software development (ie. ticketing and documentation systems as Jira and Confluence, prototyping tools such as Moqups, Balsamique, Adobe XD or similar).
• Good cross-disciplinary collaboration experience between engineering, product management, project management, technical operations, and internal stakeholders.
• Experience with working with a software team following the agile development lifecycle.
• Experience with e-learning platform highly appreciated.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, influencing skills.
• Solid emotional intelligence and people skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up.
• Results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive self-starter with a passion for delivering high quality software in a high-performance team environment.

Working conditions

This position is for work from home. Team members are located throughout North America and Europe. This position requires accessibility to Offensive Security systems and interfaces, and adherence to all security protocols and policies.

Direct reports

This position has no direct reports.