Senior Product Owner, Building Products

The posting, as ICON wrote it

ICON is seeking a Sr. Product Owner to own execution of the building product portfolio: the wall assemblies, structural details, enclosure performance, and design tools that let a 3D-printed home be permitted, priced, and built anywhere. This role turns agreed product direction into clearly defined, correctly sequenced work, keeps the development backlog honest, and holds the line on what "done" requires before a product is released for use. This is product ownership for physical building products, where validation is bound by physical testing rather than a software iteration cycle.

This role sits within BPS's Product Development team, working day to day with the domain leads and engineers across structures, enclosure and building science, and design technology, and coordinating continuously with testing, software, hardware, material science, and build operations. The team is technically deep; several members are licensed engineers with primary authority in their domain. This role earns its standing by making their work easier to deliver, not by managing them. Product development at ICON is a matrix by design: coordination happens through credibility and follow-through. The problems are novel, the precedents are thin, and the development process this role runs is itself young, so landing it in daily practice is part of the first year of the job.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the accountable party to Department Leadership for timely and on-budget delivery of building products against their defined requirements and interfaces.
• Own and manage the product development execution process and backlog. Keep the backlog honest by clearing noise and stale items, and make sure everything open maps to a current product goal.
• Translate agreed product direction into clearly scoped, actionable blocks of work for product development teams and subject matter experts, written so the intent and the definition of done are unambiguous without a follow-up conversation.
• Manage prioritization and sequencing of development work to align with business and product goals, and keep the master schedule current across concurrent programs.
• Coordinate and consult with domain leads to ensure the development process is followed and best practices stay consistent across the team.
• Manage the validation effort as part of the development process: scope and manage consultants schedules and budgets against test and product deliverables, and carry results back into the development record.
• Coordinate and consult with product owners and product counterparts in other departments, including Software, Hardware, and other technology teams, to keep system-level requirements and interfaces aligned.
• Route field, build, and stakeholder signal on product performance upward to department leadership and to the relevant product development engineers.
• Ensure all affected functional disciplines are informed of changes and implementations that impact their function.
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