Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
The CAT Digital Platform is helping drive Caterpillar's core business endeavors and is looking for talented technology professionals who bring a combination of technical experience and business acumen. The Senior Digital Product Owner works as a pivotal member of a scrum team to maximize the value of the work of the Scrum Development Team. This unique opportunity provides a "full stack" experience leading a front-end application team building reference application based on digital services and internal tools used world-wide by Caterpillar technicians and Dealers. This position also leads a team - "Analytics Execution/MLOps" - that serves a vast data science community building and deploying analytic models in the cloud.
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include but not limited to:
The Product Owner works intimately with the Scrum Master and the Development Team with the primary task of creating and managing the Product Backlog and to ensure everyone knows the priorities.

• Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team
• Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project
• Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team
• Act as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have
• Responsible for the vision of what is to be built, and conveying that vision to the team
• Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint
• Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization
• Responsible for making decisions on release dates and content
• Represent the customer, interfacing and engaging with the customer
• Participate in Daily Scrum as needed
• Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Reveals and Retrospectives
• Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team
• Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally
• Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member
• Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization

Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.
Required Qualifications

• Four-year Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science, information systems, marketing, communications, engineering or related field
• 5+ years' experience working as a product owner
• 5+ years of experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• 3+ years of experience with the Agile methodology
• Demonstrated ability to communicate appropriately to ensure a team's success
• Strong accountability planning/organization, and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Top candidates will also have:

• Product Owner experience with front-end B2B applications
• Exposure to applications dealing with predictive analytics or business intelligence
• Scrum Master experience or credentials
• Product Owner certification (CSPO from Scrum Alliance)
• Domain expertise in business applications
• Experience managing projects using Agile software tools such as Mingle, VSTS, JIRA, Team Services, Rally
• Experience working with onshore/offshore team model
• Demonstrated ability to empower teams
• Strong accountability, teamwork, and interpersonal skills, and communication skills
• Knowledge of SDLC and demonstrated experience employing SDLC in aspects of the project management process

Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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