Product Owner

Telepathic Instruments is an internationally based electronic instruments company founded by Kevin Parker and friends. Our whole thing is to help musicians find what’s on their mind. Our first product, Orchid, combines intuitive design with deep synthesis and sampling capabilities, and we’re just getting started. Our product design is lead by 3 core principles: Insight, Innovation, and Inspiration.

We’re hiring a Product Owner / Product Manager to own the end-to-end lifecycle of Telepathic’s software and firmware products. You’ll take ideas from roadmap to release—and back again—ensuring delivery, quality, and long-term viability.You’ll work at the intersection of hardware, firmware, software, sound, and creative intent.

This is a senior hands-on role for someone who knows how to translate complexity into clarity, ambition into action, and chaos into cadence.You’ll be responsible for release management, backlog ownership, QA and testing, cross-functional reporting, and LAB-stage product exploration. Your partners in crime will include Kevin (Creative Director), Ignacio (Product Director), Tom (Design Director), Sam and BJ (Engineering), and Charl (MD).

Own the roadmap for firmware, desktop software, plugins, and internal tooling

Sequence and prioritise initiatives in line with OKRs

Maintain high signal-to-noise in planning and documentation

Balance near-term delivery with long-term viability and technical health

Define and run release cycles across firmware, software, and VSTs

Coordinate delivery with Engineering, Design, Sound, and Operations

Make go/no-go decisions and own communication to internal stakeholders

Set and enforce standards for performance, stability, and user experience

Run backlog prioritisation and sprint planning

Write testable user stories and technical requirements

Keep Asana clean, current, and trustworthy

Ensure tasks are properly scoped, sequenced, and resourced

Define and oversee test plans for hardware, software, and firmware

Manage bug triage, tracking, and regression testing

Coordinate internal testing and external beta workflows

Support QA loops with manufacturing partners for production firmware

Provide regular product updates and OKR tracking

Translate complexity into clarity for non-technical stakeholders

Escalate risks early with options and recommendations

Align cross-functional priorities across product, creative, and commercial

Co-lead LAB sessions with Kevin, Ignacio, and Tom

Shape early ideas into scoped features and product concepts

Run feasibility and validation sprints

Define DVF criteria and phase gates for new product initiatives

Releases ship on time, with fewer surprises

Firmware and software quality improves over time

Product plans are clear, visible, and trusted

Risks are surfaced early and clearly

LAB projects move cleanly from idea to delivery

10+ years in technical product, project, or QA roles

Proven experience owning software and/or firmware delivery

Background working on hardware-software integrated products

Deep comfort with release planning, QA, and backlog management

Fluent in Agile / Lean practices (but not dogmatic)

Systems thinker who brings order to chaos

Strong product judgment and clear trade-off thinking

Calm under pressure, decisive under uncertainty

Excellent communicator across disciplines

Technically literate; credible with devs, creative with designers

Asana (required)

Google Suite / Docs

Slack, Notion, Figma

GitHub, Linear (nice to have)

Familiarity with CI/CD and test frameworks

Audio software, plugin, or DAW experience

Experience with contract manufacturers or production firmware

Music tech background or passion for instruments

You secretly love writing test plans and cleaning up backlogs