Senior AEM Product Owner

Caterpillar; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 113.000 - 183.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career Development

Incentive bonus

Parental leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Descripción de la vacante

Caterpillar is seeking a Product Owner for Digital Experience Platforms to define and execute the product strategy, roadmap, and priorities for AEM, Vercel, and EDS. You will bridge business stakeholders with engineering, security, and architecture teams to deliver reliable, scalable digital experiences.

You will drive adoption, manage backlogs, and ensure platforms evolve with enterprise goals, while coordinating budgets and vendor relationships.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field.
• Experience as Product Owner, Product Manager, or related role within enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience managing digital experience, content management, or web application platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and governance for multiple digital platforms.
• Prioritize and manage platform backlogs aligning with business objectives and architecture standards.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, and security across CDN and security services.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, marketing, and stakeholders to enable scalable digital solutions.
• Manage vendor relationships, licensing, budgeting, and executive reporting on health and investments.

Conocimientos

Product Owner

Agile methodologies

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Vercel Platform

Next.js

Akamai CDN

Edge Computing

AWS

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field

Herramientas

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Akamai CDN

Descripción del empleo

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. Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

Job Summary

The Product Owner, Digital Experience Platforms, is responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and operational priorities for Caterpillar's digital experience platforms, including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), and Vercel. This role serves as the bridge between business stakeholders, platform engineering teams, architecture, security, and application teams to ensure the platforms deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performing digital experiences. The Product Owner will drive platform adoption, prioritize investments, manage platform backlogs, and ensure the platforms evolve to meet business and technical needs while aligning with enterprise objectives and digital transformation initiatives.

What You Will Do

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and governance for the AEM, Vercel, Akamai, and Enterprise Delivery Services (EDS) platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives, digital experience goals, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Prioritize and manage the platform backlog, balancing business demand, platform enhancements, security requirements, technical debt, operational improvements, and modernization initiatives across all supported platforms.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, and security by overseeing Akamai CDN capabilities, web application security services, platform upgrades, incident management, vulnerability remediation, and service-level compliance.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, marketing, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable digital solutions, improve author and developer experiences, and accelerate platform adoption through standardized best practices and governance.
• Manage vendor relationships, licensing, budget planning, and operational metrics for Adobe, Akamai, Vercel, and related partners while providing executive reporting on platform health, roadmap progress, risks, investments, and business value realization.

What you will have

Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.

Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.

Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.

Software Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.

Consideration for top candidates

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.

Experience as Product Owner, Product Manager, or related experience within enterprise technology platforms.

Experience managing digital experience, content management, or web application platforms.

Strong experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel Platform, Next.js Framework, CDN (Akamai) and Edge Computing technologies and AWS.

Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and product management practices.

Preferred experience in Headless CMS architectures, Web Content Management Systems, Cloud Infrastructure and Hosting, Security and Compliance requirements, DevOps and CI/CD processes, Site Performance and Core Web Vitals, Digital Analytics and Monitoring

Additional Details

This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, Denver, CO or Dallas, TX.

Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position.

Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

This position will require up to 10% travel.

Summary Pay Range

$112,710.00 - $183,140.00

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
• These benefits also apply to part-time employees
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position

Posting Dates

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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.