Salesforce Product Owner

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.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

Job Summary:
As a Salesforce Product Owner, you will work with our business groups to understand demand, strategy and collaborate to develop short term/long term road map. You will lead the team through a salesforce standardization initiative, along with optimizing value and helping that translate to business outcomes. Company is looking for a candidate with Salesforce, project management and Agile framework experience.

This role is a strategic individual contributor who will own a portfolio of initiatives which include:

• Owning reporting and analytics on product work,
• Establishing and maintaining metrics to measure performance of work, business outcomes
• Creating and sustaining relationships with other organizations (IT, industry teams, etc.),
• Facilitating working sessions / steering committees to drive performance
• Communicating directly with senior leaders

What You Will Do:

• Work closely with key stakeholders and internal partners throughout the organization to gather requirements
• Act as the voice of the team, communicating status to stakeholders and internal partners
• Acting as the key product feature decision-maker and maximizing the value of the product
• Developing the vision of what is to be built and conveying that vision to the team
• Assist with further defining epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project while communicating product backlog priorities
• Reporting and analytics on product work
• Establishing and maintaining metrics to measure performance of work and business outcomes
• Handoff of development ready stories to the development team
• Input on release dates and content
• Participate in Daily Scrum as needed
• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Reveals and Retrospectives - inspecting the product progress at the end of every sprint to accept or reject the work that has been done by the development team
• Creating and sustaining relationships with other organizations (IT, industry teams, etc.

The position also serves to define scope and benefits, create user stories, develop a roadmap, prioritize development/scrum epics, track budget performance, validate IT related design and development work, partner with the business to ensure end user acceptance testing, and ultimately will monitor an initiative post launch to ensure benefit realization.

What You Will Have:
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.

Effective Communications:

• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

Software Change Request Management:

• Defines responses for non-standard or unsupported change requests.
• Contributes to the design and development of request process flow and templates.

Software Problem Management:

• Documents resolution progress and provides feedback to customers.
• Describes actions, tools, and procedures for problem reporting, solving, and resolution.

Software Product Business Knowledge:

• Collects, documents, and maintains product functional requir