product owner for innovation team

CloudLinux develops Imunify360, a suite of security products protecting millions of websites across the web hosting industry, and CloudLinux OS, an operating system used by a large share of the world's shared hosting. Its innovation team tests new product concepts and develops them into working MVPs.

• Run the pipeline of product concepts, capture and rank ideas, document assumptions, and keep the backlog visible to the CPO and leadership
• Take funded concepts to working MVPs within a fixed timebox, with a named customer or design partner testing each one
• Define success criteria and report results using usage, conversion, willingness-to-pay, and support-load data
• Make go/no-go recommendations, hand proven products to product lines with a runbook and roadmap, and document lessons from concepts that do not succeed
• Report status and risks to the CPO weekly, assigning an owner and due date to every item
• Choose the fastest credible build approach for each concept and make trade-offs explicit
• Build prototypes and demo stands, and review designs and code for everything the team ships
• Keep MVPs production-worthy for real customer servers, including packaging, safe rollout, rollback, and observability from the first release
• Work with the architecture group and product teams to enable successful MVP adoption without a rewrite
• Lead a small distributed team through 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews, and career development
• Define hiring profiles, conduct technical interviews, onboard, and mentor engineers
• Set working agreements for fast asynchronous work, including written decisions, public-by-default communication, and demos instead of status meetings
• Model and coach effective use of coding agents, including prompt specificity, review of agent-generated code, context provision, iteration, error recovery, and end-to-end task completion
• Use coding agents to build prototypes, generate test corpora, and draft customer-facing material
• Complete 1:1s with every team member and document the team's strengths and gaps within the first 30 days
• Review active concepts and their supporting evidence, and meet with sales, support, and at least three hosting customers within the first 30 days
• Take ownership of the concept pipeline and weekly status, publish success criteria for every active concept, and ship at least one prototype or demo within the first 60 days
• Present a ranked portfolio of bets for the next two quarters, agreed with the CPO, including a customer-evidence-backed go/no-go recommendation and a staffing recommendation within the first 90 days

• 5+ Years as a software engineer and 2+ years leading a small team with people responsibility, building new products in a product company or startup
• A track record of taking at least one product from concept to its first paying customers and stopping one that did not work
• Strong Linux proficiency at software engineer level; able to build and review code in a modern language and debug live systems
• Practical product discovery skills, including customer interviews, assumption mapping, pricing experiments, and independently analyzing usage and conversion data
• Experience quickly mastering complex technical domains and making credible architectural decisions
• Demonstrated people leadership, including 1:1s, performance conversations, hiring, and developing engineers
• Experience with agentic or AI-assisted development workflows
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English
• Availability to work EU hours
• Будет плюсом: experience with cPanel/WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, or hosting-provider infrastructure; security products such as runtime protection, web application firewalls, malware detection, vulnerability management, or patching; freemium or product-led growth and self-serve billing; familiarity with Node.js or Python runtimes and their package ecosystems; confidence presenting to customers and at industry events

• Fully remote work with flexible working hours and the ability to work from any location worldwide
• 24 Paid vacation days per year, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave
• Compensation for private medical insurance
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement
• Education budget
• Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea the company can patent