Digital Product Owner

Caterpillar; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Digital Product Owner to drive cloud-based technology projects. The role requires extensive experience in story creation, agile ceremonies, and collaboration with product owners and leads.

You will gather requirements, create user stories with acceptance criteria, and lead grooming sessions to align business needs with development work. Strong documentation, planning, and stakeholder management are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based web application development and agile ceremonies.
• Strong documentation and planning skills with proven delivery.
• Ability to break down large requirements and define acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with business users and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements workshops with product owners to derive system requirements.
• Create user stories with acceptance criteria for the development team.
• Conduct grooming meetings to share business needs and system requirements.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements and manage project plans.
• Coordinate resources, priorities and dependencies to unblock progress.
• Monitor deliverables and drive timely project completion.
• Gather metrics and run retrospectives to drive improvements.

Skills

Cloud-based apps

Documentation

Planning

Time management

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Azure DevOps

SQL queries

Agile methodologies

Estimation models

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

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.

Job Description: Digital Product Owner

We are looking for highly competent Product Owner to join our team to help drive the ongoing development of our cloud-based technology projects.

This position requires extensive experience in Story Creation, Agile Methodology & ceremonies, work allocation/tracking and working with product owners and Leads. Candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience.

Key Role/Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements gathering meetings/workshops with product owners to derive the system requirements and uncover areas of improvement
• Performing requirements analysis and create user stories with proper acceptance criteria for development team
• Conducting requirement grooming meetings and to share business needs and system requirements with the development team
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements
• Serving as a liaison between Business users, Business Analyst and development team users
• Ability to break down large functional requirements into manageable chunks
• Ability to clearly call out the definition of done and acceptance criteria
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and unblocking the resources.
• Managing competing resources, dependencies and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects
• Gather metrics, conduct retrospective meetings for driving improvements

Required Skills:

• Experience in working or managing cloud based web application development
• Excellent documentation skills.
• A track record of following through on commitments.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps (Formerly VSTS Teams)

• Knowledge in SQL queries
• Experience developing applications with Agile team methodologies preferred.
• Familiarity with Estimation models

Desired Skills:

• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
• Strong Analytical skills.
• Experience at creating technical project Documentation and task time estimates.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply