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ICON is seeking a Senior Product Owner to own execution of the building product portfolio—wall assemblies, structural details, enclosure performance, and design tools that enable 3D-printed homes to be permitted, priced, and built anywhere. This role translates agreed product direction into clearly defined, correctly sequenced work; maintains an honest development backlog; and enforces standards for what "done" means before product release. This is product ownership for physical building products where validation is bound by physical testing rather than software iteration cycles.
The role sits within the Product Development team, working day-to-day with domain leads and engineers across structures, enclosure, building science, and design technology, while coordinating with testing, software, hardware, material science, and build operations. The team is technically deep with several licensed engineers holding primary authority in their domains. This role earns standing by making their work easier to deliver, not by managing them. Product development at ICON operates as a matrix by design, with coordination happening through credibility and follow-through. The problems are novel, precedents are thin, and the development process itself is young—landing it in daily practice is part of the first year.
Key responsibilities include: serving as the accountable party to department leadership for timely, on-budget delivery of building products; owning and managing the product development execution process and backlog; translating product direction into clearly scoped, actionable work blocks with unambiguous intent and definition of done; managing prioritization and sequencing to align with business and product goals; coordinating with domain leads to ensure process consistency; managing validation efforts including consultant schedules and budgets; coordinating with product owners in Software, Hardware, and other technology teams to keep system-level requirements aligned; routing field, build, and stakeholder signal on product performance upward; ensuring all functional disciplines are informed of impactful changes; recording, managing, and tracking risks; and managing scope creep by making real-time scope calls and saying no to work that does not serve current goals.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years owning delivery of a technical product, standard, or portfolio (4+ years acceptable with relevant Master's degree). Relevant pathways include product ownership, technical program management, new product development, technical architectural practice, and multi-site prototype or rollout program management. Title matters less than whether you owned the sequence, schedule, and definition of done.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or management discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience. Technical fluency is often built through work in engineering, construction, or manufacturing environments.
- Demonstrated ownership of a live portfolio that kept evolving after release (backlog, program plan, new product development pipeline, prototype or design standard under revision control). You must have decided what entered it, what left it, and in what order. A single closed project or coordination without ownership does not meet the bar.
- Track record delivering complex, multi-team technical programs to committed schedules, including responsibility for surfacing and managing risk.
- 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 that did not previously use one, including securing adoption from people who were not required to comply.
- Experience holding a development or program budget, including tracking committed versus actual spend on external vendor and consulting engagements.
- Proficiency with a work management platform and judgment to use it proportionately rather than ceremonially.
PREFERRED:
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in construction, building products, architecture and engineering practice, or another physical-product industry where validation is bound by physical testing rather than software iteration cycles.
- Experience owning a stage gate or phase gate development process, including gate review facilitation and exit criteria enforcement.
- Experience scoping and coordinating physical validation with internal or third-party groups, including performance mockup programs, specialty testing, or product qualification campaigns.
- Experience owning a versioned prototype, design standard, or kit of parts deployed across many sites or projects, including change control and communicating revisions to consuming functions.
- Background bridging software and physical product development, including sequencing digital deliverables against hardware or field milestones.
- Familiarity with 3D-printed construction, advanced manufacturing, prefabrication, or digital fabrication workflows.
- Familiarity with building codes and product certification pathways at the level needed to scope and flag, not to adjudicate.
