Career Area
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description
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.
Role Summary
The
Senior Digital Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of a digital product by
bridging business needs, technical implementation, and endtoend customer outcomes. This role works
closely with application and engineering teams to translate business objectives and customer problems into welldefined product features, epics, and user stories.
The Product Owner owns the
product backlog, ensures
clarity of requirements, and provides
continuous context to engineering teams so that solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned to business strategy and customer value across the full product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Product Ownership & Backlog Management
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring items are clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business goals
- Translate business requirements, customer needs, and operational inputs into epics, features, and user stories
- Continuously refine and groom the backlog with application and engineering teams to maintain readiness
- Make tradeoff decisions balancing scope, quality, timelines, and technical feasibility
Collaboration with Application & Engineering Teams
- Work daytoday with application, platform, and data engineering teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria
- Provide endtoend product context so teams understand why a feature is being built, not just what
- Partner with architects and technical leads to ensure solutions align with platform standards, scalability, and longterm roadmap
- Participate actively in sprint planning, reviews, and backlog refinement sessions
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and delivery teams
- Gather and consolidate inputs from business, customers, support, field teams, and operations
- Clearly communicate product vision, priorities, progress, and tradeoffs to stakeholders
- Ensure delivered features meet intended business outcomes and customer value
EndtoEnd Product Thinking
- Maintain a holistic view of the product across customer experience, technical architecture, data flows, operations, and support
- Understand and articulate upstream and downstream dependencies across systems and teams
- Support release planning, golive readiness, and postrelease validation
- Use feedback, data, and operational insights to drive continuous improvement
Quality, Acceptance & Delivery
- Define clear acceptance criteria and support user acceptance testing (UAT) and business signoff
- Validate that delivered features meet functional, nonfunctional, and usability expectations
- Collaborate with support teams to ensure smooth adoption and issue resolution
Core Skills
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience as a Product Owner, Digital Product Owner, or Business/Product Analyst in an agile environment
- Ability to understand technical concepts (APIs, systems, data flows, integrations) and discuss solutions with engineering teams
- Solid business analysis and requirement definition skills
- Experience working with crossfunctional teams (engineering, UX, data, support, business)
Preferred Skills
- Experience with enterprise or platformbased digital products
- Familiarity with Agile / Scrum practices and tools (e.g., backlog management, sprint ceremonies)
- Ability to analyze customer and operational data to inform product decisions
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Relocation is available for this position.
Posting Dates
March 27, 2026 - April 9, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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