Autonomy Portfolio Manager, Physical AI & Robotics

Caterpillar; Dallas (TX); Presencial; USD 148.000 - 222.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Relocation assistance

Onsite Dallas, TX

Descripción de la vacante

Caterpillar is seeking a Segment Portfolio Manager for Physical AI & Autonomy to convert upcoming initiatives into launch-ready programs. You will align Product Management, Commercial, and Technical Program Management to set priority, scope, timing, and resources, framing executable plans and securing approvals for clear launch decisions.

The role reports to the Senior Manager of Portfolio Management and requires experience driving cross-functional programs, with a focus on autonomy, robotics,

Formación

• Experience taking new programs from concept through launch across Product, Commercial, and Engineering functions.
• Ability to align stakeholders with competing priorities on scope, timing, value, and resources.
• Experience building launch or gate-review packages leading to a go/no-go decision.
• Experience framing integrated plans with engineering and delivery leaders including capacity and dependencies.
• Exposure to autonomy, robotics, AI, connected-machine, or complex hardware-software programs is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Power BI, or comparable portfolio and work-management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to simplify complex cross-functional issues.

Responsabilidades

• Act as the connective tissue for initiatives not yet launched, aligning Product Management, Commercial, and Technical Program Managers on priority, scope, timing, value, and resources.
• Take accepted initiatives from the intake process once engineering assessment is under way and maintain a clear, current view of what each initiative needs before it can launch.
• Work with Technical Program Managers to shape Epic-level engineering requirements and solution options, including platform reuse versus new-build choices.
• Partner with the Senior Release Train Engineer to frame the plan: decompose Epics into Features, assess capacity, and identify dependencies.
• Assemble the launch decision package, including value, customer evidence, scope, framed plan, capacity, dependencies, risks, and open decisions, and convene the stakeholder audience and approval authority through the Gateway readiness and Technical Review Board path.
• Record the launch decision, conditions, and baseline; stand up Objectives and Milestones; and hand execution to the Release Train Engineers.
• For new autonomy initiatives, govern launched programs at portfolio level: Objectives, Milestones, roadmap, RAID, decisions, dependencies, and reporting.
• Maintain the pre-launch pipeline view and provide prioritization, sequencing, and start-stop-continue-defer inputs where initiatives compete for funding, capacity, or timing.
• Surface misalignment, missing evidence, and unresolved decisions early, and escalate material tradeoffs with clear options and consequences.
• Apply the common portfolio operating model, Ways of Working, and reporting standards so launched programs enter execution on the same definitions as the rest of the portfolio.
• Contribute to improving the launch-readiness workflow and package based on what each launch teaches.

Conocimientos

Planning techniques

Program management

Decision making

Organizational leadership

Change control

Project control

Communication

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Herramientas

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Descripción del empleo

Caterpillar is seeking a Segment Portfolio Manager for Physical AI & Autonomy to convert upcoming initiatives into launch-ready programs. You will align Product Management, Commercial, and Technical Program Management to set priority, scope, timing, and resources, framing executable plans and securing approvals for clear launch decisions.

The role reports to the Senior Manager of Portfolio Management and requires experience driving cross-functional programs, with a focus on autonomy, robotics,