Lead 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.

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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.

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.

Job Summary:

The Service Options team, a part of the Global Service Applications team within Cat Digital, is growing in support of the Speed to Quote strategic initiative to transform how Caterpillar creates, manages, and delivers service option data to be used by Caterpillar and our dealers for quoting rebuilds, maintenance, and repairs for our customers.

This opportunity is for a Lead Product Owner on the Service Options team facilitating product development for an integrated web application. The Product Owner will facilitate Agile best practices and be a liaison to the business team. They will work closely with the Business Product Owner and Cat Digital Engineering team to deliver a modernized, high quality web application.

What You Will do:

• Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team

• Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization

• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project

• Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team

• Responsible for the vision of the solution and conveying that vision to the team

• Collaborate with Lead Engineers on decomposition of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint.

• Negotiate business requirements and their release dates with Business Product Owners and development teams.

• Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint.

• Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization.

• Participate in Daily Scrum as needed

• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Demos and Retrospectives

• Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team

• Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally

• Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member

• Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization

• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

What You Will Have:

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, prospectiv