Mining Digital Product Owner

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.

What You Will Do (Responsibilities):

• Own and maintain the team backlog, ensuring work items are structured, prioritized, and continuously refined.
• Ensure Features and Stories have sufficient clarity for implementation (problem/context, acceptance criteria, dependencies, constraints).
• Drive backlog hygiene and traceability so work remains visible, current, and actionable.
• Lead and/or coordinate backlog refinement to prepare work for upcoming sprints.
• During sprint planning, present the highest-priority work and facilitate the conversation so the team can make realistic commitments based on capacity.
• Provide ongoing clarification during execution to keep delivery unblocked and aligned to intended outcomes.
• Act as the team’s primary day-to-day interface for stakeholders, ensuring the team plan remains aligned to stakeholder needs and inter-team dependencies.
• Coordinate priority conflicts and dependency impacts with peer teams (and escalate where needed) to preserve flow and delivery confidence.
• Be accountable for Story acceptance, confirming work meets acceptance criteria, aligns to Definition of Done, and is suitable for release/use.
• Ensure validation evidence is captured appropriately (tests, demos, notes, acceptance outcome) to avoid “nearly done” carryover.
• Maintain delivery visibility by keeping planned work accurately represented.
• Maintain key working relationships with the delivery team, product and program leadership, and stakeholders.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, and major issues; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Application Knowledge: Deep knowledge of the Terrain for Grading and Loading solution, with an understanding of mining operational workflows, constraints, and challenges.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Software Development Lifecycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

What Skills You Will Have:

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking (Level: Extensive experience)
• Effective Communications (Level: Extensive)
• Software Change Request Management (Level: Extensive Experience)
• Software Engineering (Level: Working Knowledge)
• Software Product Business Knowledge (Level: Extensive Experience)
• Software Product Management (Level: Extensive Experience)
• Software Product Technical Knowledge (Level: Extensive Experience)

This position requires working onsite five days a week. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. Posting Dates: June 8, 2026 - June 14, 2026 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community. There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.