Senior Digital Product Owner

Lead the product strategy and delivery for Caterpillar’s VISTA (Visualized Insights) platform supporting enterprise supply chain and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day leadership for VISTA across development, quality, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Own and maintain product vision, roadmap, priorities, and release strategy
• Coordinate with business process owners to identify, evaluate, and prioritize development opportunities
• Translate business challenges into product requirements and user stories
• Lead execution and tracking of enhancements, maintenance releases, and defect remediation
• Partner with software engineering teams to design, build, test, and deploy new capabilities
• Manage change requests and enhancements coming from business users and stakeholders
• Monitor product performance, adoption metrics, and resulting business outcomes
• Collect, consolidate, and prioritize feedback from users and business partners
• Act as the primary product expert by producing product documentation, user guidance, and training materials
• Partner with end users to understand evolving needs and improve user adoption
• Communicate product strategy, priorities, and progress to functional and leadership stakeholders
• Collaborate with Digital Supply & Capacity Planning teams to integrate data, applications, and analytical insights
• Support visualization and analysis of material flow, transportation, inventory, supplier, and asset-related data
• Use quantitative and analytical approaches to strengthen decision-making capabilities
• Partner with supply chain stakeholders to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions
• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, execution, and validation
• Identify and resolve design, reliability, performance, and maintenance issues
• Ensure solution quality through testing disciplines, release validation, and feedback loops
• Support governance processes for software product lifecycle management

Requirements

• Strong understanding of software development practices and ability to partner effectively with development teams
• Experience translating business needs into product requirements; prioritizing delivery; ensuring solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with user expectations
• Proven ability to manage and evolve software products that deliver measurable business value
• Ability to balance current business needs with future vision while driving adoption across multiple stakeholder groups
• Capability to identify value opportunities, evaluate options, and recommend solutions that create value
• Ability to gather requirements, analyze workflows, and translate complex operational challenges into digital solutions that improve visibility, planning effectiveness, and decision-making
• Experience managing feature requests and product improvements across the software lifecycle
• Skilled at balancing business impact against technical effort; maintaining a transparent, value-driven product backlog
• Ability to design, coordinate, and execute UAT to confirm products meet business requirements and user expectations
• Skill in establishing acceptance criteria, coordinating stakeholder participation, and validating successful deployment
• Knowledge of tools, processes, and best practices for identifying, investigating, and resolving software issues
• Experience partnering with users and development teams to troubleshoot, manage defect resolution, communicate status updates, and ensure reliability and performance

Technologies

• SQL
• Python
• Snowflake

Top candidates may also bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline; or an advanced degree with relevant experience
• Experience applying quantitative, analytical, statistical, modeling, or operational research techniques to solve complex business problems
• Proven success leading or supporting digital products, analytics platforms, or software solutions in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or similar roles
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable digital solutions and collaborate with software developers, data engineers, and business stakeholders
• Experience with large, complex datasets and modern analytics technologies, including SQL, Python, Snowflake, data visualization tools, and data engineering concepts
• Demonstrated use of data and insights to improve supply chain, logistics, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, or operational performance
• Experience driving user adoption, gathering feedback, prioritizing enhancements, and improving products continuously
• Strong communication skills explaining complex analytical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Preferred experience with graph databases, supply chain analytics platforms, digital supply chain visibility tools, or advanced analytics technologies

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

Location and work details

• Primary work location: Mossville, IL or Irving, TX (onsite)
• Working onsite five days a week
• Occasional travel may be required up to 10%
• Relocation assistance is not available

Additional information

• Drug screen required for employment offers
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role
• International assignments and payroll transfers are not available for this role

Pay range

$112,710 - $183,140 per year

Posting dates

October 1, 2026 - October 15, 2026