Technical Product Manager

Role: Product Owner / Technical Product Manager

Location: Chicago, IL - On-Site, 5 Days/Week

Duration: 12 Months

Key Responsibilities

• Maximize the value of the product and define work across multiple Scrum teams.
• Develop and progressively elaborate functional and non-functional Epics and Features for development teams.
• Own and prioritize the Technical Product Backlog based on business and customer value.
• Define and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Establish clear acceptance criteria for product features.
• Serve as the key decision-maker regarding product features, priorities, releases, and backlog content.
• Communicate backlog priorities and expectations to development teams.
• Make decisions regarding release dates and release content.
• Act as the voice of the customer and maintain strong engagement with customers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, System Engineering, Data & Analytics Architects, and Platform Architects.
• Lead product strategy and roadmap development for larger, more complex initiatives with significant organizational value.
• Identify opportunities for solution reuse, data utilization, API commercialization, and enterprise value creation.
• Communicate product releases and updates to stakeholders and customers.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of professional experience, or
• Master’s degree with 6+ years of professional experience.
• At least 4 years of Product Management experience in the software industry is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
• Experience managing products, platforms, applications, or data-driven solutions.
• Strong ability to work with technical and business stakeholders.

Required Technical & Professional Skills

• Business Analysis: Ability to identify business needs, evaluate requirements, and recommend solutions that deliver stakeholder value.
• Product Management: Experience managing product vision, strategy, roadmaps, requirements, backlogs, and releases.
• Decision Making & Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze complex situations and make informed, productive decisions.
• Communication: Strong ability to communicate technical concepts, business needs, priorities, and product decisions effectively.
• Software Product Business Knowledge: Understanding of software product operations, current usage, future plans, product vision, and customer value.
• Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering methodologies, development practices, and technical concepts.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate and influence across engineering, architecture, business, analytics, and customer teams.

Preferred / Top Candidate Qualifications

• Experience leading programs from product strategy through roadmap development and execution.
• 4+ years of software Product Management experience.
• Experience with data analytics and commercializing APIs.
• Business-level Product Management experience supporting applications or data platforms.
• Experience working with enterprise digital products and platforms.
• Caterpillar or heavy-equipment industry domain knowledge is a plus.