Caterpillar, Inc

Principal Technical Product Manager (End-to-End System)

Caterpillar, Inc$147K — $240K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Systems Engineering, or related roles.
  • Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing complex system dependencies.
  • In-depth knowledge of systems engineering and autonomous systems development.
  • Experience in system-level roadmap alignment and integration planning.
  • Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills with a focus on mission objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end product backlog for autonomous solutions.
  • Define acceptance criteria for integrated workflows and mission outcomes.
  • Drive alignment across technical product managers for mission objectives.
  • Facilitate cross-functional planning to ensure coordinated delivery.
  • Identify and manage dependencies and integration challenges across domains.
  • Lead discussions on prioritization and trade-offs among technical complexities.
  • Maintain visibility into system readiness and milestone achievements.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
  • 401(k) savings plans with company match.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
  • Career development and tuition reimbursement programs.
  • Incentive bonuses based on performance.
  • Employee Assistance Program and lifestyle health programs.
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:

As the Principal Technical Product Manager for End-to-End System Integration, you will be responsible for defining, aligning, and orchestrating the delivery of autonomous solutions across multiple product domains. This role serves as the primary integration point across domain Technical Product Managers, ensuring mission objectives, sub-missions, dependencies, priorities, and technical outcomes remain aligned throughout the product lifecycle.

The position partners closely with Technical Product Managers, System Engineering, Program Management, Architecture, Safety, Data, Deployment, and Customer Readiness teams to ensure autonomy capabilities are developed as a cohesive end-to-end system. The Principal Technical Product Manager drives mission alignment, cross-domain prioritization, dependency management, integration readiness, and system-level outcome delivery while providing visibility into risks, tradeoffs, and execution progress across the autonomy ecosystem.


What You Will Do:

Maximize the value of the end-to-end autonomous solution and define work across multiple scrum teams and product domains. Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, Product Owners, System Engineering, Architecture, Safety, Data, Deployment, and Customer Readiness teams to own and progressively elaborate system-level Epics, Features, and integration requirements. The Product Manager is empowered to make all decisions regarding the End-to-End System Product Backlog.

  • Owns definition of acceptance criteria for system-level capabilities, integrated workflows, and mission outcomes.
  • Drive alignment across domain Technical Product Managers to ensure priorities, roadmaps, and deliverables support overarching mission objectives.
  • Ensure mission and sub-mission objectives are clearly defined, understood, and traceable across all product domains.
  • Facilitate cross-functional planning and roadmap alignment activities to ensure coordinated delivery across autonomy, safety, data, deployment, customer readiness, and platform teams.
  • Identify, manage, and communicate dependencies, risks, conflicts, and integration challenges across multiple product domains.
  • Drive tradeoff discussions and prioritization decisions to balance mission value, technical complexity, schedule constraints, and resource availability.
  • Establish and maintain visibility into system-level readiness, integration maturity, and milestone achievement.
  • Partner with System Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure domain capabilities integrate into a cohesive end-to-end autonomous solution.
  • Responsible for making decisions on integration priorities, milestone readiness, release sequencing, and system-level outcomes.
  • 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, mission, and stakeholder needs; ability to align multiple product domains toward common outcomes that deliver value.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze dependencies, risks, priorities, tradeoffs, and mission objectives to 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, priorities, risks, and dependencies across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Technical Product Management: Knowledge of product strategy, roadmap management, prioritization, requirements management, backlog development, and product lifecycle practices; ability to align multiple products toward common business and mission outcomes.
  • Systems Integration and Architecture: Knowledge of systems engineering principles, system architectures, interface management, integration planning, and validation methodologies required to deliver complex autonomous solutions.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Knowledge of organizational alignment, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and cross-functional execution; ability to drive collaboration and accountability across multiple teams and product domains.
  • Autonomous Systems Knowledge: Knowledge of autonomous systems, machine integration, safety, deployment, customer operations, and end-to-end solution delivery; ability to understand how individual capabilities contribute to overall mission success.

Consideration For Top Candidates:

  • Lead complex autonomy programs by aligning multiple product domains toward common mission objectives and measurable business outcomes.
  • At least 8 years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Systems Engineering, Program Management, or related technical leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing dependencies across complex systems, platforms, or autonomous solutions.
  • Experience driving system-level roadmap alignment, integration planning, prioritization, and tradeoff decision-making across multiple product organizations.
  • Strong understanding of systems engineering, autonomous systems development, integration management, and end-to-end solution delivery.
  • Experience preparing integrated systems for demonstrations, operational deployments, milestone reviews, and system readiness reviews.
  • Cat domain knowledge and experience supporting autonomous machines, connected products, advanced technology programs, or large-scale integrated systems preferred.

Additional Details:

  • This position requires the candidate towork full-time at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
  • Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
  • Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

Summary Pay Range:

$147,760.00 - $240,110.00

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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

July 20, 2026 - August 3, 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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