Caterpillar, Inc

Digital Product Owner

Caterpillar, Inc$97K — $158K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in product ownership or related field
  • Experience managing multiple agile teams
  • Strong understanding of software product business operations
  • Proven expertise in business analysis and stakeholder engagement
  • Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools

Responsibilities

  • Own and prioritize the product backlog effectively
  • Drive delivery across multiple agile teams
  • Coordinate dependencies and facilitate communication among stakeholders
  • Ensure alignment of key services with business and customer needs
  • Lead agile ceremonies and drive process improvements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off plan including vacation and volunteer days
  • 401(k) savings plans
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Career development opportunities
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement programs
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The Digital Product Owner is responsible for driving backlog execution, delivery alignment, and cross-team coordination for Cat Foresight application domains. This role serves as the critical bridge between business stakeholders, product management, and engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of high-value features that enhance asset monitoring, predictive maintenance, and customer outcomes. This position operates at a technical product ownership level, managing multiple agile teams and ensuring alignment with strategic roadmap priorities.

What You Will Do:
  • Product Ownership & Backlog Management: Own, prioritize, and manage the product backlog along with translate roadmap into user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Delivery Execution & Alignment: Drive delivery across multiple agile teams and ensure alignment between roadmap and execution.
  • Cross-Team Coordination: Coordinate dependencies across teams and facilitate communication between stakeholders.
  • Product & Domain Ownership: Own key services (e.g., Recommendations) and ensure alignment with business and customer needs.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Provide updates on progress, risks, and dependencies. Support roadmap and release planning.
  • Agile Execution & Process Improvement: Lead agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and drive continuous improvement.


What You Will Have:
  • 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 Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.
  • 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.


Considerations For Top Candidates:
  • Demonstrated ability to own backlogs across multiple teams, not just a single squad
  • Successfully managed cross-team dependencies in large-scale platforms
  • Ability to break down complex systems into well-defined user stories
  • Experience owning technical services/APIs or platform-level capabilities
  • Ability to connect features to measurable business/customer outcomes
  • Strong understanding of end-to-end workflows (not just features)
  • Takes accountability for delivery outcomes, not just backlog hygiene
  • Proactively identifies issues and drives resolution without escalation
  • Experience in Agile product development.
    Experience managing backlogs and delivery execution.
  • Strong understanding of prioritization trade-offs (business value vs technical constraints)
  • Ability to de-risk delivery early by identifying integration challenges
  • Provides clear, proactive status and risk communication to leadership
  • Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or equivalent backlog tools


Summary Pay Range:

$97,530.00 - $158,480.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
  • 401(k) savings plans*
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
  • Health Lifestyle Programs*
  • Employee Assistance Program*
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
  • Career Development*
  • Incentive bonus*
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement


* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.

Posting Dates:
June 22, 2026 - June 26, 2026

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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