Job Summary
The Product Owner 3 is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering product capabilities and business features for the Dealer Websites program. The role focuses on enhancing dealer websites and improving the digital experience for dealers and customers through dealer-specific website templates, content authoring capabilities, content syndication, and system integrations. The Product Owner will collaborate with dealers, business stakeholders, UX, engineering, and product management to translate business needs into actionable requirements, manage the product backlog, and ensure delivered solutions provide business value. The position also supports testing, validation, and release activities while facilitating stakeholder collaboration, accelerating decision-making, improving dealer adoption, and reducing delivery risks.
Key Responsibilities
• Drive product ownership and delivery for the Dealer Websites program as it progresses through execution.
• Define and prioritize dealer website capabilities, business features, and product requirements.
• Support the delivery of dealer-specific website templates and content authoring capabilities.
• Enable content syndication from the next-generation Cat.com platform.
• Define requirements for system integrations, including leads, service requests, and the Cat AI Assistant.
• Collaborate with dealers, business stakeholders, UX, engineering, and product management to gather and translate business needs into actionable requirements.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, stakeholder needs, and delivery priorities.
• Develop clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
• Support software testing, solution validation, and release activities.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet dealer requirements and provide a consistent, scalable experience across the dealer network.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration, accelerate decision-making, improve dealer adoption, and reduce delivery risks.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver software capabilities and support successful program rollout.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements and actionable product backlog items.
Required Qualifications
• Without a bachelor's degree: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in product ownership or a similar capacity.
• With a bachelor's and/or master's degree: Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in product ownership or a similar capacity.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a similar role within a digital product or software development environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile product development practices.
• Experience with product backlog management and prioritization.
• Proven ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
• Experience supporting software testing, solution validation, and release activities.
• Strong collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, and requirements-gathering skills.
• Ability to engage effectively with dealers, business partners, engineering teams, and leadership.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to facilitate timely decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting digital products, customer-facing websites, or dealer-facing platforms.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver software capabilities.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear functional requirements and actionable product backlog items.
• Experience working in highly collaborative, stakeholder-facing environments.
• Consistent employment history with sustained tenure in previous roles.
