Cat
Principal Technical Product Manager (End-to-End System)
Irving, Texas · Principal · Part-time
No sponsorship$148k-$240kDetected 1 day ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyAgileStakeholder ManagementSystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCritical Thinking
About the role
- As the Principal Technical Product Manager for End-to-End System Integration, you will be responsible for defining, aligning, and orchestrating the delivery of autonomous solutions across multiple product domains.
- This role serves as the primary integration point across domain Technical Product Managers, ensuring mission objectives, sub-missions, dependencies, priorities, and technical outcomes remain aligned throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, Product Owners, System Engineering, Architecture, Safety, Data, Deployment, and Customer Readiness teams to own and progressively elaborate system-level Epics, Features, and integration requirements.
- Owns definition of acceptance criteria for system-level capabilities, integrated workflows, and mission outcomes.
- Drive alignment across domain Technical Product Managers to ensure priorities, roadmaps, and deliverables support overarching mission objectives.
- Identify, manage, and communicate dependencies, risks, conflicts, and integration challenges across multiple product domains.
- Drive tradeoff discussions and prioritization decisions to balance mission value, technical complexity, schedule constraints, and resource availability.
- Establish and maintain visibility into system-level readiness, integration maturity, and milestone achievement.
- Partner with System Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure domain capabilities integrate into a cohesive end-to-end autonomous solution.
- ability to align multiple product domains toward common outcomes that deliver value.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Knowledge of organizational alignment, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and cross-functional execution; ability to drive collaboration and accountability across multiple teams and product domains.
- Lead complex autonomy programs by aligning multiple product domains toward common mission objectives and measurable business outcomes.
Requirements
- Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business, mission, and stakeholder needs
- Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques
- ability to accurately analyze dependencies, risks, priorities, tradeoffs, and mission objectives to reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, priorities, risks, and dependencies across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of product strategy, roadmap management, prioritization, requirements management, backlog development, and product lifecycle practices
- ability to align multiple products toward common business and mission outcomes.
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles, system architectures, interface management, integration planning, and validation methodologies required to deliver complex autonomous solutions.
- Knowledge of organizational alignment, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and cross-functional execution
- Knowledge of autonomous systems, machine integration, safety, deployment, customer operations, and end-to-end solution delivery
- ability to understand how individual capabilities contribute to overall mission success.
Nice to have
- At least 8 years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Systems Engineering, Program Management, or related technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across complex systems, platforms, or autonomous solutions.
- Experience driving system-level roadmap alignment, integration planning, prioritization, and tradeoff decision-making across multiple product organizations.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering, autonomous systems development, integration management, and end-to-end solution delivery.
- Experience preparing integrated systems for demonstrations, operational deployments, milestone reviews, and system readiness reviews.
- Cat domain knowledge and experience supporting autonomous machines, connected products, advanced technology programs, or large-scale integrated systems preferred.
Compensation
- $147,760.00 - $240,110.00
- Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
- Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience.
Benefits
- This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
Company info
- Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
- When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other.
- We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities.
- We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.
- Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
- Ensure mission and sub-mission objectives are clearly defined, understood, and traceable across all product domains.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
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