Senior Product Owner, Building Products

The role

The Senior Product Owner will own the execution of the building product portfolio including wall assemblies, structural details, and design tools. This role manages the product development backlog and ensures timely delivery of physical building products through validation and testing.

What you will do

• Serve as the accountable party for timely and on-budget delivery of building products.
• Own and manage the product development execution process and backlog.
• Translate product direction into actionable blocks of work for development teams.
• Manage prioritization and sequencing of development work to align with business goals.
• Coordinate with domain leads to ensure consistent development processes.
• Manage the validation effort including consultant schedules and budgets.
• Coordinate with product owners in other departments like Software and Hardware.
• Route field and stakeholder signal on product performance to leadership.
• Ensure all affected functional disciplines are informed of changes.
• Record, manage, and track risks for the product portfolio.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years owning delivery of a technical product, standard, or portfolio, with 4 or more years alongside a relevant Master's degree.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or management discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a live portfolio that kept evolving after release.
• Track record delivering complex, multi-team technical programs to committed schedules.
• Experience holding senior technical specialists who did not report to you to their commitments through influence.
• Experience introducing or materially changing a development process for a team.
• Experience holding a development or program budget.
• Proficiency with a work management platform.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in construction, building products, architecture and engineering practice, or another physical-product industry.
• Experience owning a stage gate or phase gate development process.
• Experience scoping and coordinating physical validation with internal or third-party groups.
• Experience owning a versioned prototype, design standard, or kit of parts.
• Background bridging software and physical product development.
• Familiarity with 3D-printed construction, advanced manufacturing, prefabrication, or digital fabrication workflows.
• Familiarity with building codes and product certification pathways.

About the company

ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment.