Product Owner Lead - Global Capital Delivery, R&D

Owens Corning•Granville, OH

5d•Remote

About The Position

The Product Owner Lead – Global Capital Delivery is an embedded technology and product partner to Enterprise Engineering, Manufacturing stakeholders, and product development teams. The role translates capital program strategy, project delivery needs, and governance expectations into scalable digital, data, and AI-enabled products that improve safety, schedule predictability, cost control, and execution transparency across manufacturing capital projects. The position contributes to the vision, roadmap, and outcomes for assigned Capital Delivery and digital products or platforms, working with business stakeholders, architects, delivery teams, and external partners. It also supports additional R&D efforts when assigned, participating in analysis, development, and execution while remaining primarily focused on Global Capital Delivery. Success requires product judgment, an understanding of manufacturing capital execution, and the ability to balance immediate project needs with platform scalability, data integrity, and governance. This is an individual contributor role that leads external contractors and reports to the Product Owner Leader – R&D, GCD, M&A.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, engineering, science, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
At least 3 years of experience in product ownership, product management, or business technology roles.
At least 3 years of experience working directly with business teams to translate needs into digital solutions.
Strong ability to translate ambiguous business or scientific problems into buildable product solutions.
Comfort working in experimental, fast-learning environments while maintaining discipline.
Strong prioritization, decision-making, and stakeholder alignment skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to adapt communication style or method to the audience, convey relevant information confidently, and understand others through active listening.
Ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform and data strategy.
Strong analytical thinking, systems thinking, and product intuition.
Ability to adapt quickly as priorities evolve.
Strong vendor management skills, including managing third-party packages and consulting teams for implementation and ongoing maintenance.
Ability to travel an estimated 5–10%, including internationally.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, and innovation-focused teams.
Experience building and supporting data platforms, analytics, AI/ML, or advanced digital tools.
Experience defining product roadmaps, backlogs, and success metrics.
Experience partnering with security, infrastructure, and data teams, as well as external vendors.

Responsibilities

Build relationships across GIS, business functions, and key stakeholder groups to stay aligned with functional objectives.
Understand business strategies and the project work supporting them, and execute functional strategies that enhance business results.
Guide stakeholders on the development processes and tasks needed to turn business needs into implemented solutions.
Develop solutions that meet business needs and add value.
Partner with Global Capital Delivery stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver digital product capabilities that accelerate delivery, improve decision-making, and reduce cycle time.
Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, EHS, site leadership, and external delivery partners.
Provide guidance on feasibility, sequencing, and tradeoffs in alignment with delivery capacity, governance requirements, and enterprise standards.
Support the product vision, roadmap, backlog, and success measures for assigned Global Capital Delivery digital products or platforms.
Use digital, data, and AI product expertise to influence Global Capital Delivery decisions and solution approaches.
Partner with architecture, data, and platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and aligned with enterprise patterns.
Support requirements definition, process design, configuration, data readiness, testing, release planning, and user enablement.
Monitor product performance, data quality, usage, and outcomes, and optimize based on insight and feedback.
Stay informed about emerging technologies relevant to R&D and translate opportunities into practical product strategies.
Work with cross-functional IT teams to gather inputs, surface impacts, and support R&D execution activities.
Support analysis of R&D systems, applications, integrations, and data, documenting findings and dependencies.
Identify and escalate risks, issues, and constraints related to assigned R&D efforts.
Ensure R&D-related IT tasks align with enterprise security, data governance, and compliance requirements.
Provide timely status updates and inputs for workstream reporting and leadership decisions.
Support the product lifecycle from ideation through delivery, scaling, sustainment, and retirement.
Collaborate with product owners, platform owners, project managers, and delivery teams to plan and execute releases.
Make product tradeoffs, scope decisions, and risks transparent and well communicated.
Provide stakeholders and leadership with timely updates on product status, outcomes, and roadmap progress.
Foster teamwork across GIS, Global Capital Delivery, R&D, and business organizations.
Invest in personal learning and development and foster a collaborative, accountable, curious, innovative, and diverse global team culture.