The position

As Product Owner for infrastructure, you will play a key role in turning strategic vision into clear priorities, practical requirements, and high-quality platform releases. You will work closely with product leadership, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, commissioning, and support teams to ensure Shift continues to evolve as a reliable, scalable, and field-ready platform.

This is a hands‑on product ownership role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of networking, cloud-native platforms, broadcast technology, and agile software delivery.

Key Responsibilities but not limited to:

You will support the strategic direction set by the VP, Platform Infrastructure & Networking and help translate the Shift roadmap into clear, actionable delivery plans.

You will also work closely with the Team Lead – Platform Infrastructure & Security to support the product vision for platform infrastructure, including reliability, security, automation, Kubernetes platform services, and operational tooling.

In practice, this means helping teams understand what needs to be built, why it matters, and how success will be measured.

Managing and shaping the product backlog

You will manage and maintain the product backlog for Shift platform capabilities, integrations, and technical enablement work.

Required Skills & Experience

- 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in a software environment.

- Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices

- Technical fluency with API-first products, microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and core DevOps/SRE practices.

- Working knowledge of networking

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong stakeholder management and the ability to negotiate priorities across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in broadcast/IP-based media workflows and/or live production environments, including familiarity with standards such as SMPTE ST 2110 and NMOS.

- Exposure to network operating systems (NOS), disaggregated/open networking, or integration with OEM/ODM networking vendors and hardware SDKs.

- Familiarity with service-provider routing and traffic engineering (TE) concepts and protocols.

- Comfort reading/writing OpenAPI/Swagger definitions; experience defining telemetry and API contracts.

- Familiarity with infrastructure automation, GitOps, observability, and operating platforms requiring 24x7 reliability with strong testing and release discipline.