What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Owner position at DPR Construction?
Job Description
At DPR, our Data & Development organization is primarily focused on serving our internal customers. We are looking for a Product Owner with the curiosity to develop a deep understanding and sense of empathy for our customers to create remarkable new experiences for them, as a part of our internal Product Development team. This role requires you to act as a bridge between business needs and technical teams, driving product development of internal products and ensuring projects are executed on time with the highest quality. You will collaborate with stakeholders, define product requirements, work with cross functional teams such as engineering, design and development and lead agile processes to deliver innovative solutions that support our company's vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing product development lifecycles, including coordinating cross-functional, remote teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of products
- Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
- Perform data-driven analysis to make sound product decisions and influence business direction
- Continuously evaluate product fit / gap, process optimization, ascertain technical dependencies and maturity, perform external benchmarking, and recommend options that meet the long-term vision.
- Define and document detailed scopes of work for product development cycles or sprints.
- Create low-fidelity mockups and work with UI / UX designers to deliver high-fidelity designs.
- Write functional specifications and user stories that clearly communicate product value.
- Follow DPR's defined best practices and manage project milestones, track releases, and ensure timely delivery of updates through the application of Agile best practices.
- Monitor team performance metrics, and drive continuous learning and improvement within the team
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers to convert the Product Roadmap into a detailed and actionable Development Roadmap; and with our Solution Architects, Tech Leads, and UI / UX to convert the Development Roadmap into a Detailed Design.
- Lead Agile ceremonies, manage sprint planning, and ensure coordination of release timelines while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency.
- Understand and apply business processes and construction workflows for intelligent collaboration.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Work Conditions
This is a hybrid role with most time being spent working from home. Attendance at important meetings and events at the local DPR office is required.
DPR has been nationally recognized for its strong company culture, based on a well-defined purpose "We Exist to Build Great Things," and four core values : integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and ever forward. A flat, title-less organization that empowers people at all levels to make decisions, DPR ranked on FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for five consecutive years. For more information, visit
