Technical Product Owner, AI-Directed Development

CBT Nuggets • Eugene, OR

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Product Owner owns the day-to-day health and growth of CBT Nuggets’ website and Assessments platform. The role directs AI coding agents to implement production software and is accountable for what ships, without writing code. It operates with delegated autonomy over task breakdown, agent direction, verification, pull-request maintenance, documentation, and incident investigation. Product scope, trade-offs, risk acceptance, spending, and destructive or irreversible changes remain decisions for the Product Owner group, based on the role’s written recommendations. The role reports to the Learning Content Team Lead for day-to-day work and is accountable to the Product Owner group for shipped work.

The three available primary surfaces are Assessments and data; Website, conversion, and copy; and Platform, security, and integrations. Applicants should state their preferred surface. The role is not a hands-on development or people-management position and does not have final decision authority. The products use Next.js, React, Prisma, Postgres, Vercel, a columnar analytics warehouse, and a model gateway. Work proceeds through gated pull requests with mandatory review, committed attestations, and operator documentation. AI agents implement work under written team rules.

Success includes shipping changes through the gated workflow, maintaining green and well-supported pull requests, keeping documentation and operating rules accurate, providing concise evidence-based recommendations, and improving the assigned product surface. The hiring process includes specification, review, escalation, and business-conversation exercises.

This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week salaried position, exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Compensation is $100,000 per year. CBT Nuggets describes the work as remote-friendly, with most of the team working remotely throughout the United States and an office in Eugene, Oregon.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in IT or software roles involving understanding how production systems are built, deployed, secured, and operated.
• At least one year directing AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex to ship production software, with examples of requests, agent errors, verification, and preventive changes.
• At least two years of product ownership or technical product management, including backlog ownership, specification writing, prioritization, and accountability for outcomes.
• Demonstrated discipline in verifying claims against systems and the ability to describe a time a confident source was wrong and how that was discovered.
• Fluency operating GitHub, including pull requests, CI, branch protection, merge conflicts, and force-with-lease; a hosting platform such as Vercel; and a relational database such as Postgres.
• Ability to read SQL and code diffs critically, even without authoring code.
• Clear, plain written English and the ability to write actionable rules, specifications, and concise executive recommendations.
• Comfort with accountability for work performed by agents and with escalating decisions outside the role’s authority.
• Independent thinking and self-starting ability.
• Attention to detail.
• Collaborative approach and comfort working on a team.
• Honesty, humility, integrity, inclusiveness, and respect.
• Strong work ethic, passion for learning, comfort with autonomy, and eagerness to develop professionally.
• Ability to be proficient with an Apple laptop.
• Proficiency with Gmail, Google Docs, Slack, and internal CBT Nuggets software.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Next.js, React, Prisma, Postgres row-level security, OAuth, or a columnar analytics warehouse.
• Experience evaluating AI models for production, including A/B measurement, calibration, cost per output, and assessing when evidence does not support adoption.
• Security and privacy judgment involving dependency advisories, supply-chain overrides, PII boundaries, and risk acceptance with an expiry date.
• Product marketing or editorial experience, especially writing for IT Directors or Training Managers and verifying claims against the product.
• Experience in IT training, certification, e-learning, or assessment design.
• Experience negotiating integration contracts with another engineering team.
• Curiosity.
• Assertiveness.
• Love of IT and/or technology.

Responsibilities

• Learn the CBT Nuggets business, including its customers, pricing, and business data; use the warehouse and CRM to verify figures.
• Own a backlog for the assigned product surface and convert product intent into precise specifications for AI agents.
• Direct AI coding agents through specification, implementation, review, testing, documentation, pull requests, CI, and production verification.
• Critically inspect code diffs and verify agent claims against the system.
• Operate repositories and related systems, including branch protection, required checks, rebases, attestations, dependency advisories, environment variables, crons, feature flags, and deployments.
• Update operator documentation in the same change when behavior changes.
• Turn lessons into dated, durable rules for agents and teammates, and retire stale rules.
• Investigate production incidents using logs, metrics, and database evidence, and document what happened and how recurrence can be prevented.
• Measure before making claims, date readings, and record when earlier readings were incorrect.
• Reduce friction for human decision-making and labeling by building pages with buttons and sharing links rather than relying on instructional documents.
• Work openly with teammates using shared rules and conventions.
• Prepare one-page, evidence-based recommendations when decisions require Product Owner group authority, and stop and escalate when necessary.

Benefits

• Generous employee benefits.
• Work-from-anywhere arrangement; most of the team works remotely throughout the United States.
• Work-life balance and time to recharge.
• Creative freedom and openness to team members’ ideas.
• Opportunities to participate in charitable causes through NuggetLove.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed