Caterpillar, Inc

Lead Product Owner, AEM Asset & Workfront

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $208K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in digital platforms, product ownership, or related roles, especially in Agile environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager Assets and Adobe Workfront, including workflow optimization.
  • Extensive knowledge of product strategy, roadmap development, and stakeholder management.
  • Experience with Agile delivery tools like Azure DevOps or Jira for managing product backlog and execution.
  • Strong background in digital asset management, marketing technology, or enterprise content platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Own and prioritize the product backlog for AEM Assets and Adobe Workfront, translating needs into epics and user stories.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to define technical requirements and release plans.
  • Gather feedback to drive adoption and continuous improvement of digital asset and workflow solutions.
  • Manage issue resolution and production support to ensure system reliability and governance.
  • Lead the coordination of UAT and validate platform changes for business readiness.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off (Vacation, Holidays, etc.)
  • 401(k) savings plans
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Career Development
  • Incentive bonuses
  • Life Insurance and Disability benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:
Join the Digital Marketing Enablement - Platform Engineering team and lead the technical product ownership of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets and Adobe Workfront capabilities. This role is responsible for defining product direction, managing backlog priorities, and partnering with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and platform support teams to deliver scalable digital asset management and work management solutions that improve content operations, governance, and business value.


What You Will Do:

  • Own and prioritize the product backlog for AEM Assets and Adobe Workfront, translating business needs into clear epics, features, and user stories for engineering teams.
  • Partner with business stakeholders, content teams, architects, and developers to define product roadmaps, technical requirements, integrations, and release plans.
  • Drive adoption and continuous improvement of digital asset management and workflow solutions by gathering feedback, identifying pain points, and recommending scalable platform enhancements.
  • Coordinate issue resolution, change requests, UAT, and production support for AEM Assets and Workfront, ensuring strong governance, system reliability, and alignment with enterprise standards.

What You Will Have:

  • Business Analysis: Extensive knowledge of business analysis techniques to identify stakeholder needs, define requirements, and deliver value through AEM Assets and Workfront solutions.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive experience analyzing technical and business tradeoffs, prioritizing roadmap items, and making sound product decisions based on data and stakeholder input.
  • Effective Communications: Extensive ability to communicate product vision, requirements, priorities, and technical constraints clearly across business, engineering, and leadership audiences.
  • Software Change Request Management: Extensive experience managing platform enhancements, defects, and change requests across enterprise digital platforms and integrated workflows.
  • Software Engineering: Working knowledge of software engineering principles, system integrations, APIs, and enterprise platform delivery to effectively partner with development teams.
  • Software Problem Management: Extensive knowledge of incidents, defect, and problem management practices for enterprise applications, with the ability to coordinate root cause analysis and sustainable resolution.
  • Software Product Business Knowledge: Extensive knowledge of digital asset management, workflow orchestration, content lifecycle, and business operations to define product vision and maximize platform value.
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Working experience planning, coordinating, and validating UAT for platform releases, integrations, and workflow changes to ensure business readiness and quality outcomes.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

  • Extensive professional experience (typically 8+ years) in digital platforms, product ownership, or related roles, with proven success operating in Agile environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager Assets and Adobe Workfront, including platform capabilities, configuration, workflow optimization, and user adoption.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional teams while managing multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and competing priorities across business and technology organizations.
  • Experience using Agile delivery and project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally, or similar platforms to manage backlog, releases, and team execution.
  • Knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, metadata models, content lifecycle management, and governance practices relevant to AEM Assets and Workfront ecosystems.
  • Working knowledge of incident management, release planning, and production support processes for enterprise software platforms.
  • Extensive knowledge of product strategy, roadmap development, and stakeholder management to align platform investments with business objectives.
  • Experience designing and coordinating UAT and rollout activities for enterprise platform enhancements and workflow changes.
  • Experience working with distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams and external implementation partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, empower teams, and drive alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and modern digital platform delivery practices.
  • Background in information technology, digital asset management, marketing technology, or enterprise content platforms.
  • Product Owner certification or equivalent Agile product management experience preferred.

Additional Information:

This position will be based out of either our Chicago, IL; Peoria, IL or Irving, TX offices.

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What You Will Get:

Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We27ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $208,770.00

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 not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

June 8, 2026 - June 21, 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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