{"id":748812,"url":"https://alion.io/job/stable-kernel-technical-product-owner","title":"Technical Product Owner","company":{"id":6911,"name":"Stable Kernel","domain":"stablekernel.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/stable-kernel","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Atlanta, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":122000,"max_usd":222000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1752},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-10T13:46:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T03:39:59Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-09-30T03:39:59Z","days_open":19,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":1,"flags":[],"days_open":18},"description":"About the Company:\nStable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA. \nWe’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with multi-awards for our amazing culture. Plus we have an impressive 13+ year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our colleagues in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.\n\nAbout the Role:\nThis is a relationship-first, product-ownership role built on top of your solid technical foundation. You build trust across technical and business audiences, turn ambiguous organizational needs into product strategy, and drive adoption of capabilities teams did not know they needed. You are credible enough to earn the room with engineers and engineering leaders, curious enough to learn any domain fast, and smart enough to know when to bring a Principal Engineer partner into a high-stakes technical conversation. Your differentiating value is your ability to connect with and to influence people.\nOur client's Quality Engineering team has built a meaningful portfolio of quality and testing capabilities: test data services, quality gates, performance testing, ephemeral environments, and more. QE now sits inside Platform Engineering as one of its three core pillars, and the next stage of its evolution is turning what has been built into a scalable, adopted platform that engineering teams across the organization actively consume.\nAs a Stable Kernel Technical Product Owner (TPO), you’ll be the single owner of the connective tissue between the QE portfolio and its internal customers: structured discovery, prioritization decisions, the product roadmap, adoption, and the feedback loop that drives iteration. You will unblock engineers so they can focus on building, gather requirements from QE’s consumers to help shape the roadmap, and educate and advocate for expanded internal adoption of QE’s products.\nThis role will report directly to our Principal Business Analyst Lead.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like:\nThe vision: make quality engineering an easily consumable platform capability across the engineering organization, enabling product teams to build, test, and release high-quality software faster without independently solving the same quality problems.\nThe TPO turns that vision into a working strategy. Near term, that means clarifying capability readiness and ownership, identifying target adopter teams, evangelizing usable solutions, and establishing direct feedback loops with lightweight adoption measures. Strategically, it means maturing the flagship capabilities, establishing common quality patterns, integrating QE into developer workflows, and building the 6 to 12 month product roadmap. Just as important is what the strategy defers: large generalized solutions without identified consumers, polishing tools before meaningful validation, and solving every edge case before release.\nLong-Term Outcomes\nOver time, this role compounds value in three ways:\nBusiness impact: faster, safer delivery through earlier validation, fewer escaped defects and production issues, and less duplicated testing investment across product teams.\nQuality of life: QE capabilities that are easy to discover and consume, with reduced tribal knowledge, repeated support burden, and dependence on individual gatekeepers.\nStrategic positioning: quality engineering established as a strategic enablement function that helps shape quality strategy rather than simply supplying delivery capacity.\n\nCore Responsibilities Include:\nEvangelism and Adoption:\nActively evangelize the QE tool portfolio and quality practices across engineering pods, translating capability into concrete value for each team.\nIdentify target adopter teams, clarify capability readiness and ownership, and establish lightweight adoption measures and direct feedback loops.\nChampion shift-left quality practices at every level, from individual engineers to business leaders who control roadmaps and funding.\nReduce dependence on localized knowledge and individual gatekeepers by making QE capabilities easy to discover, understand, and consume.\nRelationship and Stakeholder Leadership\nBuild durable, trust-based relationships across client engineering pods, engineering leadership, and the business stakeholders who influence investment.\nBe on-site with client teams one to two times per week, building the in-person presence and cultural fluency this client values deeply.\nInfluence both technical and non-technical audiences: engineers who will adopt the tools, and business leaders who will put QE work on their roadmaps.\nServe as a strategic partner who anticipates misalignment, brings the right people together, and represents Stable Kernel with professionalism in conversations involving scope, priorities, and delivery direction.\nDiscovery and Requirements\nLead structured discovery with engineering pods to clarify problem spaces, validate assumptions, and turn ambiguous needs into well-shaped requirements.\nBuild and document requirements in partnership with QE engineers, ensuring solutions address real consumer needs and integrate into developer workflows.\nRecognize repeatable patterns across teams and surface them as platform opportunities rather than one-off requests.\n\nProduct Ownership and Backlog Leadership\nOwn the QE product backlog end to end: intake, refinement, prioritization, and sequencing driven by validated consumer needs rather than assumptions.\nRun scrum ceremonies and delivery cadence for the QE team.\nDefine and continuously refine a 6 to 12 month product roadmap grounded in structured discovery, early adoption signals, and measurable feedback.\nEvaluate trade-offs across solution options, frame value versus effort, and make clear, defensible prioritization calls that keep engineers building and the product evolving to serve its users\n\nOur Ideal Candidate\n 8 or more years in technical product ownership, systems analysis, technical program leadership, or an adjacent role bridging business and engineering.\nDemonstrated relationship building across cross-functional technical and business stakeholders amid ambiguity and minimal direction. This is the primary axis of the role.\nExceptional communication: able to read a room, communicate at the right level for the audience, and influence decisions at the team, leadership, and executive levels.\nProven experience evangelizing tools, platforms, or practices and driving measurable adoption across teams that did not report to you.\nTechnical credibility: proven success in a technical domain, comfort holding technical conversations with engineers, and demonstrated capacity to learn new technical domains quickly. Engineer-level depth is not required; a Principal Engineer partners with this role in high-stakes technical discussions.\nStrong product ownership fundamentals: backlog management, prioritization frameworks, roadmap definition, and running agile ceremonies. Able to take on scrum master responsibilities.\nSelf-directed initiative: creates their own timeline, controls their own narrative, and operates as a trusted advisor with minimal oversight.\nLocal to Atlanta and genuinely excited, not merely willing, to be in person at the client office one to two times per week.\n\nNice to Haves:\nA degree, training, or certification in computer science or a related technical field.\nExposure to test infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, performance and load testing, or developer platform tooling.\nExperience in or alongside platform engineering, developer experience, or internal platform product teams.\nConsulting or client services background with trusted-advisor experience.\n\nA Bit More Info:\nMinimum Base Compensation: $130,000\nThis is a full-time position.\nStable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.\nTravel may be associated with this role as it requires you to maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity for regular in-person engagements for both clients and internal teams.\nOur generous total compensation package includes:\nCompany-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment\n401k with above-average company matching \nFully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance\nOptional Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, and Health Savings Account participation\nVoluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance\nEAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents\n$1500-3000 annual industry educational budget \nPaid time off and paid holidays\nAccess to Perks at Work program featuring a variety of discounted products and services\n\n*Note - We are not sponsoring employment visas at this time. If you are currently in possession of an employment visa, it will need to be effective for at least 3 years from the date of your application for your candidacy for employment to be considered.\n\nStable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nHowever, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:\nwe work with integrity always\nwe respect our work and each other\nwe are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing\nwe stay hungry for new challenges\nIf you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. 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