Onsite Lead Digital Product Owner – Customer Experience

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About the role

  • Lead Product Owner for Caterpillar's digital shopping experience, driving initiatives around usability and performance. Collaborate with engineering, UX, and marketing to enhance rental operations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the product vision and roadmap for the Cat Rental Shopping Experience, ensuring capabilities across browse, search, product detail, quoting, and checkout are cohesive and customer‑centric.
  • Aligning shopping initiatives with enterprise content governance models and Caterpillar’s digital transformation goals, ensuring seamless interplay between shopping, content, and data.
  • Own and prioritize the shopping product backlog (including CMS dependencies), aligning work with business outcomes, dealer needs, compliance requirements, and platform constraints.
  • Own the Cat Rental website design direction for shopping—partnering with UX/UI to establish and evolve design systems, information architecture, and page templates that improve findability, clarity, accessibility, and conversion across web and mobile.
  • Lead cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, UX, content, analytics, and dealer stakeholders to deliver scalable, high‑quality shopping solutions.
  • Configure and maintain shopping data and content in the CMS to ensure accurate dealer–product relationships, availability, and visibility throughout the Cat Rental experience.
  • Own the end‑to‑end strategy for AEM‑backed shopping content, including upper‑funnel marketing content that drives SEO, discoverability, and conversion into the rental shopping flow.
  • Identify and resolve data inconsistencies and system issues that impact product discovery, pricing/availability accuracy, checkout reliability, or overall user experience.
  • Support dealer onboarding to the Cat Rental shopping ecosystem with tooling, workflows, and best‑practice guidance for content and catalog maintenance.
  • Design and approve content/workflow templates and metadata structures that optimize shopping performance, personalization, and operational efficiency.
  • Capture feedback from functional teams (sales, marketing, dealer ops, support) and translate it into prioritized features and improvements that meet business objectives.
  • Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for Cat Rental shopping and CMS, guiding technical discovery/design and training marketing partners and dealers on best practices.
  • Define, derive, and analyze KPIs for shopping journeys and CMS publishing efficiency (e.g., search CTR, PDP conversion, quote submission rate, page performance, content freshness).
  • Partner with Business Analysts to convert business requirements into actionable specs (scope, layout, data contracts, acceptance criteria) for shopping features and integrations.
  • Work closely with development teams to track delivery, conduct validation/UAT, and ensure each release maximizes value and meets quality, accessibility, and performance standards.
  • Continuously manage the product backlog, reprioritizing enhancements based on evolving business needs, dealer readiness, and time‑sensitive events (e.g., Summit/CONEXPO).
  • Lead change management for dealer digital initiatives—training, documentation, communications, and stakeholder engagement to ensure smooth adoption of shopping capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, marketing, communications, engineering, or a related field preferred
  • Proven experience in digital product management with a focus on eCommerce or shopping experiences
  • Extensive experience in digital product management, including ownership of customer-facing web platforms
  • Proven ability to collaborate across marketing, engineering, UX, and business teams to align shopping and CMS capabilities with strategic goals
  • Ability to define and prioritize shopping-related initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business priorities and dealer needs
  • Strong understanding of website design principles, including UX/UI best practices, responsive design, and accessibility standards to optimize the CRS shopping experience
  • Ability to lead initiatives that streamline marketing operations and improve data consistency across platforms supporting browsing, search, PDPs, quoting, and checkout
  • Proven experience in product content creation focused on digital experiences
  • Expertise in content lifecycle management, including taxonomy, metadata, and workflow automation to support product discoverability and conversion
  • Hands-on experience with CMS platforms (e.g., Adobe Experience Manager) and their integration into shopping workflows
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging for engineering teams, business partners, and leadership
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to navigate complex or sensitive situations
  • Working knowledge of PIM systems and how they integrate with CMS to enable unified, accurate product content in the Cat Rental shopping experience
  • Proficiency with Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint) and Azure DevOps for planning, backlog management, and release tracking
  • Product Owner certification (e.g., CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) or strong knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

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

Job title

Lead Digital Product Owner – Customer Experience

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$128,470 - $208,770 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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