Marriott International is hiring a Kubernetes Technical Product Owner to shape the product direction and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Kubernetes Platform. This hybrid role in Bethesda, MD connects Kubernetes delivery with application and platform engineering, infrastructure, security, operations, and engineering leadership, with a strong focus on measurable platform value and engineering enablement outcomes.
What you’ll do
- Own product direction for the Enterprise Kubernetes Platform, including vision, roadmap, backlog, and adoption strategy.
- Develop and maintain a process to capture, evaluate, prioritize, and communicate customer requests and platform improvements.
- Build evidence-based priority recommendations balancing customer value, architectural risk, enterprise strategy, platform sustainability, and engineering capacity.
- Partner with engineering leaders and platform teams to translate approved priorities into clear outcomes, ownership, delivery plans, and customer communications.
- Improve how application teams discover, adopt, and successfully operate on the Kubernetes platform by identifying friction, support patterns, self-service gaps, and unnecessary complexity.
- Convert learnings from customer engagements into scalable platform capabilities, reusable patterns, automation, documentation, standards, and enablement.
- Maintain visibility into customer commitments, dependencies, risks, and unresolved decisions, ensuring appropriate follow-through.
- Lead the operating model and execution of Marriott’s Engineering Experience program and related engineering enablement efforts.
- Coordinate the Engineering Excellence Network, domain ambassadors, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) activities, application-team engagements, and participating platform teams.
- Establish engagement objectives, responsibilities, schedules, success criteria, and follow-up mechanisms, and adapt the model as priorities and capacity evolve.
- Measure progress using a balanced framework covering Kubernetes platform adoption, customer success, product value, and engineering experience, supported by quantitative and qualitative signals.
- Report to engineering leaders on progress, persistent friction, emerging needs, and areas requiring investment, focusing on outcomes rather than activity volume.
- Influence across platform, application, infrastructure, security, operations, and leadership teams without relying on direct authority.
- Communicate clearly with technical teams and senior leaders, including progress updates, roadmap context, release information, adoption guidance, significant changes, deprecations, and customer impacts.
- Facilitate technical and product discussions to clarify tradeoffs and move stakeholders toward decisions, and independently evaluate application architectures when possible.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience/certification).
- 6+ years of technology experience, including 3+ years in technical product ownership, technical program leadership, platform engineering, or a related role.
- Experience with Kubernetes, public-cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Agile methodologies, and modern software delivery practices.
- Demonstrated ability to use generative AI, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate research, analysis, content creation, and solution delivery.
- Ability to independently create and deliver technical enablement products such as documentation sites, onboarding experiences, user guides, and other self-service resources.
- Experience with Markdown, Docusaurus or similar documentation frameworks, Git-based workflows, and documentation-as-code practices.
- Technical understanding of application architecture, security, reliability, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
Technologies
Kubernetes, public-cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Agile methodologies, generative AI, prompt engineering, AI-assisted development tools, Markdown, Docusaurus, Git-based workflows
Compensation
USD 110,400 - 189,000 per year
Benefits
- 401(k) plan
- stock purchase plan
- discounts at Marriott properties
- commuter benefits
- employee assistance plan
- childcare discounts
- medical, dental, vision
- health care flexible spending account
- dependent care flexible spending account
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- accident insurance
- adoption expense reimbursements
- paid parental leave
- educational assistance
- paid sick leave (Washington Applicants Only)
- 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked (Washington Applicants Only)
- eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually (Washington Applicants Only)
