Manage product backlog, coordinate feature development, document requirements, conduct UAT, and analyze data for electrification applications.
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Job Summary:
Join the Electrification team of Cat Digital and oversee the day-to-day activities supporting the engineering and implementation of data and APIs in support of electrification operational and applications-based deliverables. Focus areas will include defining requirements for charger and energy storage data, and APIs to share battery information with 3rd party OEM parties. This Product Manager will also support pilot efforts to collect non-CAT machine data to optimize electrified site productivity.
What You Will Do:
What You Will Have:
Considerations For Top Candidates:
Summary Pay Range:
$126,000.00 - $204,720.00
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.
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
December 22, 2025 - January 9, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Job Summary:
Join the Electrification team of Cat Digital and oversee the day-to-day activities supporting the engineering and implementation of data and APIs in support of electrification operational and applications-based deliverables. Focus areas will include defining requirements for charger and energy storage data, and APIs to share battery information with 3rd party OEM parties. This Product Manager will also support pilot efforts to collect non-CAT machine data to optimize electrified site productivity.
What You Will Do:
- Manages the creation, maintenance, and prioritization of the Product Backlog according to business and strategic value for the life of the project.
- Coordinates with engineering to develop and deploy new features and new releases on schedule.
- Responsible for the capture and documentation of performance and persona-based requirements tied to the enablement of the electrification program.
- Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough to satisfy program sprint planning requirements.
- Capable of interrogating 3rd party APIs, identifying data structure and developing basic scripting to pull data and build basic data warehouses as part of pilot projects that will influence future product definition.
What You Will Have:
- 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.
- 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 Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
- Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.
- 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.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.
Considerations For Top Candidates:
- Strong data "wrangling" experience - doing traditional ETL, complex data transformation, cleansing, curation and standardization
- Applies data analysis and data modeling techniques to establish, modify, and maintain business data structures and associated components. Fluency in SQL
- Ability to build data pipelines in Python or other functional programming languages
- Experience building visualizations using tools like Tableau or PowerBI
- Thrive in an agile working environment of quick turns and frequent iteration
- Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
- Knowledge of technical writing; ability to write detailed product requirements for data structures to support new application or analytic features/functionality.
Summary Pay Range:
$126,000.00 - $204,720.00
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. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
December 22, 2025 - January 9, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community.
Top Skills
Power BI
Python
SQL
Tableau
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