Product Lead

Your Title: Product Lead, Installation Solutions (GCA)

Location: Dayton, OH

Our Department: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

What You Will Do

You will be a key member of an empowered and accountable Product Team that has true ownership of their product; sellable, installable and supportable kits that enable CTCT applications to be applied on various makes and models of machine types so that they are “Trimble Ready” increasing market penetration and system sales revenue

As the Product Lead for the Installation Solutions team and through your accountability for business viability and customer value along with responsibility for managing kits and installation parts through the entire product lifecycle - NPI, Quality, Continuity of Supply, Iteration and Depreciation, you will play an important role in enabling CTCT to deliver the product objective of delivering the best dealer technician installation and commissioning experience in the machine control industry, across the most valuable portfolio of tiered products that delight machine control customers 

See: Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell 

Responsibilities 

Key Outcomes

Build the right thing:
Managing Customer Value and Business Viability Product Risks

• A measurable shift in customer purchasing behavior towards choosing Trimble machine control by delivering sellable, installable and supportable kits that render a wide range of machine types, makes, and models 'Trimble Ready' thereby enhancing market penetration and boosting system sales revenue.

• Decisions about what to do are justified with business case analysis  balancing  product, usability and engineering feasibility risks in collaboration with Design and Technical Leads

• Skilled with various data sets and tools, the Product Lead is a company acknowledged expert on their product’s target users / customers and how their product is used and actually works

Get work done:

Deliver the context to the makers in the Product team
(conversations, market view, priorities, problem statements, roadmaps, epics, user stories, backlogs, personas…)

• The product team

  • Understands the why

  • Understands the Product Plan across the four commercial budget categories, revenue drivers, unplanned deal driven, quality, validation

  • Has a prioritized backlog to deliver on the product plan

  • Has the context they require to deliver the product bits to form the product

• Product Waste is minimized 

• The Product lead is an available resource for the team to answer questions, clarify goals , enabling and empowering the team to own the details

Get work done:

Accept Product bits

• The Product Lead is an available resource for the team to 

  • create and review acceptance criteria 

  • Review and provide feedback on regular demos/iterations

  • Provide connection and operational support between the Product manager and the team in support of achieving products outcomes across the now, next and later horizons 

Delivering stakeholder needs:

• Approve pricing for installation parts and kits

• Affinitize customer requirements, identify and communicate with stakeholders, coordinate supplier inputs, identify dependencies, and prioritize the deliverables to meet the needs for Installation Solutions of multiple internal and external customer

• Coordinate release dates with Machine Integration Teams so all aspects of an application request (Software, MDF, Installation instructions, documentation, Kits) are delivered

• Lead the development of a strategy for and execution of the roadmap for installation instructions and documentation for Dealer Technicians

Serve the organization:

• Act as a servant leader and effect change through influence and inspiration