Cat
Lead Product Owner
Chicago, Illinois · Part-time
No sponsorship$128k-$209kDetected 1 day ago
Product StrategyAgileRoadmappingStakeholder ManagementEpicLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCritical ThinkingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
- This role is focused on product operations, cross‑team communication, defining ways of working, and leading the roadmap for critical areas across Cat Central's digital ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead inter-team and stakeholder communication, cross-product dependency tracking, and collaboration with shared services across Cat Digital
- Drive day‑to‑day decisions on backlog priorities, sequencing, and trade‑offs, ensuring clarity for engineering, UX, and partner teams
- Define, document, and evolve ways of working across teams to ensure consistent execution, transparency, and operational excellence
- Own and maintain a roadmap focused on improving customer and dealer onboarding, authentication journeys, and core adoption experiences within Cat Central
- Partner with Data & Analytics to identify and take action on insights, measure onboarding performance, and articulate success criteria/KPIs
- ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
- Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization, including Product Management, Engineering, UX, and business partners
Requirements
- Do you have a background in aligning teams, scaling product operations, and strengthening how teams work together?
- Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs
- Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques
- ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Knowledge of software change request management
- Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems
- Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques
- Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs
Skills
- Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
- Lead Product Owner - Cat Central
- About Caterpillar
Compensation
- $128,470.00 - $208,770.00
- 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
- Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Sponsorship is Not available for this position
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