Autonomy Growth Strategy Specialist

Caterpillar Inc.•San Francisco, CA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

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. The Autonomy Growth Strategy Specialist will run the business system behind the internal/external opportunity discovery process and translate those insights into financially grounded recommendations (NPV/IRR scenarios, alpha identification, and) that leadership can act on. This position is built for a high-performance operator who thrives under pressure, brings structured thinking to ambiguous problems, and can coordinate cross-functionally to drive outcomes at enterprise scale.

Requirements

Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience

Nice To Haves

Experience spanning strategy, product, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, venture diligence, or corporate development with a track record of turning market insight into action.
Strong narrative + quantitative blend: comfortable moving between customer/market insight and financially grounded decisioning.
MBA from a top tier university with finance depth preferred.
Prior startup operating experience, prior investing experience, strong relationships across the customer ecosystem (mining and construction)

Responsibilities

Build structured financial analyses (NPV/IRR, scenarios, sensitivity ranges) to estimate value creation, strategic option value, and downside risk.
Identifying alpha for customers and shareholders, alpha under risk, and opportunities to safeguard customer value across CAT technology informed by prioritized financial lifetime value for the customer and ecosystem
Develop recommendations for leadership: clear investment theses, payoff logic, execution dependencies, and recommended next actions.
Drive alignment across strategy, engineering, product, partnerships, and corporate venture to move priority opportunities from “interesting” to “executed.”
Coordinate with internal stakeholders to maximize value from partnerships and ensure outcomes are measured and reported.