Digital Product Manager

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Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Product Strategy

• Defines and governs product vision strategy and multiyear roadmaps for platform and ecosystem products aligned with Caterpillar Digital and enterprise business strategy.
• Translates business objectives market needs and customer outcomes into productlevel capabilities and investment priorities.
• Partners with architects and engineering leaders to ensure product strategy is technically viable scalable secure and sustainable.

CrossPlatform & Portfolio Leadership

• Provides product leadership across multiple platforms domains or value streams ensuring consistency reuse and architectural alignment.
• Influences prioritization and sequencing of work across portfolios to optimize enterprise value delivery.
• Resolves complex tradeoffs across scope cost risk platform constraints and longterm technical direction.

Delivery Oversight & Governance

• Guides and governs execution of product development activities across multiple teams ensuring outcomes meet quality compliance security and reliability expectations.
• Oversees delivery of both:
  • Functional capabilities (product features APIs integrations)
  • Nonfunctional capabilities (performance scalability observability availability regulatory compliance)
• Establishes and monitors product success measures including adoption platform usage reliability and customer satisfaction.

Platform & Architectural Alignment

• Partners with Principal Engineers and System Architects to:
  • Shape targetstate architectures
  • Influence platform evolution and technical standards
  • Align product requirements with platform constraints and capabilities
• Ensures product decisions reinforce enterprise architecture direction and avoid fragmentation or duplication.

Organizational Influence & Mentorship

• Acts as a senior advisor to business leaders and executives on product strategy risks tradeoffs and investment decisions.
• Represents product leadership in architecture councils governance forums and strategic planning reviews.
• Mentors Senior Product Managers Product Owners and emerging product leaders raising overall product maturity across the organization.

Experience

• 1418 years of progressive experience in digital product management platform product management or largescale enterprise technology products.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise or platformlevel products supporting multiple customerfacing applications or business units.
• Proven success leading complex crossorganizational initiatives with significant ambiguity and scale.

Education & Knowledge

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Technology or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• Deep understanding of platform engineering cloudnative architectures and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of IT and IoTenabled digital ecosystems preferably in industrial or equipmentcentric domains.

Technical Competencies

Platform & Systems Engineering Acumen

• Demonstrated ability to reason about distributed systems platform scalability fault tolerance resiliency patterns and failure modes.
• Strong understanding of system decomposition domain boundaries and service ownership models in largescale platforms.
• Ability to assess architectural options and guide decisions related to monolith vs microservices synchronous vs asynchronous communication and centralized vs domainowned capabilities.

Architecture & Design Literacy

• Ability to evaluate and influence:
  • Targetstate and transitional architectures
  • Reference architectures and design standards
  • Crossplatform integration patterns
• Comfortable reviewing and challenging:
  • Architecture diagrams
  • Sequence and dependency flows
  • Data ownership and lifecycle models
• Capable of identifying architectural risks scalability bottlenecks and areas of technical debt that impact longterm product outcomes.

API Data and Integration Expertise

• Strong understanding of APIfirst product design including versioning backward compatibility lifecycle management and developer experience considerations.
• Working knowledge of eventdriven architectures messaging patterns and data streaming concepts.
• Ability to reason about data semantics data contracts and integration responsibilities across platforms and consuming applications.

Cloud Security and Compliance Awareness

• Indepth familiarity with cloudnative operating models including shared responsibility costtoserve and operational risk.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance considerations in enterprise platforms including:
  • Identity and access management principles
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Regulatory and audit requirements
• Ability to influence securebydesign and compliancebydefault product decisions.

Operational & ServiceLevel Thinking

• Deep understanding of production operations and what it takes to run platforms reliably at scale.
• Ability to define and govern:
  • Servicelevel objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs)
  • Availability reliability and performance expectations
• Comfortable working with engineering teams on incident learning operational metrics and continuous improvement.

DevOps & Delivery Model Fluency

• Strong grasp of modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including environments release strategies and deployment pipelines.
• Ability to align product roadmaps with engineering throughput platform readiness and operational capacity.
• Understands tradeoffs between speed quality risk and sustainability in continuous delivery environments.

Leadership Competencies

• Enterpriselevel product and systems thinking
• Strategic prioritization and portfolio decisionmaking
• Influence without authority at senior levels
• Clear executivelevel communication of complex concepts
• Strong bias toward outcomes quality and longterm value

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