Caterpillar Inc.

Lead Product Owner

Caterpillar Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois • North Carolina • United States

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Salary

💰 $128,470 - $208,770 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • The Product Owner serves as the day-to-day contact for the engineering team, providing clarity to tasks and refining the backlog.
  • They help coordinate efforts with engineering partners to streamline work and manage dependencies across our inventory platforms.
  • Working closely with the Product Manager, they help prioritize and sequence work to ensure development efforts align with business goals and customer needs.
  • Manage, prioritize and refine the inventory management product backlog to ensure alignment with our product strategy, technical dependencies, and sprint capacity.
  • Act as the primary technical point of contact between the engineering team and the product manager, ensuring clear understanding of goals, scope and priorities.
  • Refine product requirements with needs from our business partners and other internal teams to finalize detailed user stores and acceptance criteria.
  • Partner with engineering leads to plan sprint objectives, clarify requirements, and ensure deliverables align with product roadmap.
  • Collaborate with engineering leads to size and refine stories, address technical questions, and validate feasibility before implementation.
  • Validate deliverables meet acceptance criteria from our business partners and user expectations before release.
  • Contribute to sprint retrospectives and improvements to optimize the team processes, communication and product delivery.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as Product Owner responsible for an eCommerce or digital marketing website and/or mobile app.
  • Comfortable working in complex, matrixed organization where leading and influencing without formal authority was necessary.
  • Technical acumen and understanding of centralized databases, APIs and content management systems enabling them to navigate complex technical integrations with ease.
  • Lead conversations among diverse stakeholders to build consensus with the ability to keep cross-functional teams focused and aligned on key objectives.
  • Experience analyzing complex inventory challenges to reach productive decisions that are data-driven and based on informed judgment.
  • Ability differentiating between assumptions, diverse stakeholder perspectives, and historical frameworks, to ensure every platform enhancement is backed by logic and strategic clarity.
  • Understanding of effective communication and demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness to defend strategic positions while across organization levels upwards and downwards.
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
  • * These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product backlog managementuser storiesacceptance criteriasprint planningtechnical integrationsdata analysisinventory managementeCommercedigital marketingmobile app development
Soft Skills
leadershipinfluencing without authoritystakeholder managementcommunicationempathyassertivenesscollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingconsensus building