Lead Technical Product Owner driving the vision and operational excellence of search products at Caterpillar. Collaborate across teams to enhance ecommerce and digital solutions.
Responsibilities
Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Search function as Product.
Lead feature intake, backlog prioritization, and alignment with business objectives.
Ensure platform stability, compliance, reliability, and supportability using ITSM processes and metrics.
Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes for the Search platform.
Partner with Search leads to evaluate recurring issues, identify root causes, and drive permanent fixes.
Manage platform change requests with full visibility into scope, impacts, risk, cost, and approvals.
Govern SLAs, KPIs, and operational dashboards for Search and related services.
Ensure proper creation, maintenance, and quality of knowledge articles , runbooks, and support documentation.
Synchronize with engineering, QA, release managers, site reliability engineering (SRE), and DevOps teams to ensure seamless platform delivery.
Partner with marketing teams to combine marketing strategy with appropriate Search capabilities.
Collaborate with global support teams (onshore/offshore) to ensure consistent service levels.
Identify and track design, reliability, integration, and maintenance issues.
Consolidate feedback from customers, dealers, field staff, and digital teams.
Provide guidance for search integrations, infrastructure dependencies, and performance optimization.
Support and lead major releases, upgrades, deployments, and platform enhancements.
Define UAT strategies, acceptance criteria, and testing approaches.
Ensure compatibility of search solutions across systems, integrations, and user groups.
Partner with business users to develop meaningful end‑to‑end validation.
Requirements
Progressively complex professional experience.
Experience as a Product Owner/Manager, Lead Business Analyst, or Senior Project/Program Manager.
Experience leading technical teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience working within ITSM processes (incident, change, problem).
Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to handle sensitive, complex, or high-visibility issues.
Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
Proven experience with Search products product management function
Work with engineering teams that build search solutions using (Any of the search platforms Lucid works, Coveo, Agolia, Constructor, Vertex Search AI – Commerce etc)
Technical product roadmap for search using AI/ML/ GenAI experience
Strong understanding on Search, commerce, AEM powered websites Integration etc
Strong expertise in search optimization ( Configuration, Algorithms for reranking, etc)
Understanding of Product search, Website Search , Data / Diagrams search technical components
Hands-on experience with Agile tools (Jira, DevOps, Rally, Mingle, etc.).
Experience with global onshore/offshore delivery models.
Experience collaborating with SRE/DevOps teams on reliability and performance improvements.
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