
Digital Product Owner – Leads Communities
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Peoria • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $97,530 - $158,480 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Create, analyze, and validate business requirements that accurately capture dealer and internal stakeholder needs across the Aftermarket Leads ecosystem.
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional requirements and user stories, ensuring alignment with development, data, and Salesforce platform teams.
- Define acceptance criteria and develop test cases, coordinating user acceptance testing to ensure high-quality delivery of PSE-related digital capabilities.
- Collaborate across the Sales, Marketing, and Prime Salesforce communities and manage integrations between Caterpillar’s Salesforce systems and Cat Dealer CRM environments.
- Support end-to-end requirements, including dependency mapping, impact assessment, documentation, and obtaining timely business partner sign-off.
- Coordinate with product development engineers to track, communicate, and resolve design, development, support, and maintenance issues across the Aftermarket Leads product suite.
Requirements
- Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- 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.
- Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.
- Software Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future, and product vision.
- Considerations For Top Candidates: Knowledge of the Aftermarket Sales Community tool or Dealer CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platforms.
- Solid understanding of Caterpillar policies, standards, procedures, and organizational structure.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based CRMs such as Salesforce or Microsoft Azure solutions.
- Technical skills with SQL and Python for data analysis, automation, or system integration support.
- Agile methodology experience: Agile certifications preferred (e.g., Scrum, SAFe).
- Experience managing data integrations and pipelines using Snowflake, Heroku, and ETL tools.
- Demonstrated ability to create, manage, and consistently meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Strong sense of accountability supported by excellent teamwork, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working effectively within onshore/offshore delivery models.
- Ability to quickly understand business processes and interpret the downstream impact of changes on data flows and datasets.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
business analysisSQLPythondata analysisautomationsystem integrationdata integrationsETL toolsAgile methodologyuser acceptance testing
Soft Skills
decision makingcritical thinkingeffective communicationstakeholder managementteamworkaccountabilityproblem managementrequirements gatheringimpact assessmentdependency mapping
Certifications
Agile certificationsScrumSAFe