Technical Product Owner, AI-Directed Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Oregon.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the daily operations and growth of the CBT Nuggets website and Assessments platform.

• Guide AI coding agents throughout the processes of specification, implementation, review, testing, documentation, pull requests, continuous integration, and production verification.

• Plan, oversee, validate, and deliver work with a degree of delegated autonomy.

• Manage a backlog and translate product intentions into detailed written specifications.

• Critically analyze every code difference and identify any exaggerations in agent summaries.

• Manage repositories, including branch protection, necessary checks, rebasing, attestations, dependency advisories, environment variables, cron jobs, feature flags, and deployments.

• Ensure operator documentation is precise and update it to reflect behavioral changes.

• Transform lessons learned into lasting rules and phase out outdated guidelines.

• Investigate production incidents by utilizing logs, metrics, and databases.

• Measure outcomes before making assertions and maintain dated records.

• Develop user-facing pages with buttons for decision-making and task labeling.

• Collaborate transparently with two teammates using shared rules and conventions.

• Advise on product scope, trade-offs, risk acceptance, budget, contracts, and irreversible changes to the Product Owner group.

• Report to the Learning Content Team Lead for daily tasks while remaining accountable to the Product Owner group for delivered work.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of five years in IT or software, in positions that necessitate an understanding of how production systems are constructed, deployed, secured, and maintained.

• At least one year of experience directing AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar to deliver production software.

• Two or more years of experience in product ownership or technical product management.

• Proven ability to verify claims against the system and recognize when sources are incorrect.

• Proficiency with GitHub, pull requests, continuous integration, branch protection, merge conflicts, force-with-lease, a hosting platform like Vercel, and a relational database such as Postgres.

• Competence in reading SQL and code differences critically without needing to author code.

• Strong written communication skills in clear, straightforward English.

• Ability to draft rules, specifications, and concise recommendations for executives.

• Comfort with being accountable for work that is not personally authored and making appropriate escalations in decision-making.

• Independent thinker and self-motivated.

• Keen attention to detail.

• Collaborative and at ease working within a team environment.

• Honesty, humility, and integrity in professional conduct.

• Commitment to inclusivity and respect.

• Strong work ethic and a passion for learning.

• Comfort with autonomy in the workplace.

• Eagerness to acquire new skills and advance professionally.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits.

• Flexible work arrangements from anywhere within the United States.

• Work-life balance providing time to unwind and recharge.

• Creative freedom and support for innovation.

• Opportunities for charitable involvement through NuggetLove.

• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for all employees.