Digital Product Manager; Electrification, Data & API’s

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

About The Position

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: Join the Electrification team of Cat Digital and oversee the day-to-day activities supporting the engineering and implementation of data and APIs in support of electrification operational and applications-based deliverables. Focus areas will include defining requirements for charger and energy storage data, and APIs to share battery information with 3rd party OEM parties. This Product Manager will also support pilot efforts to collect non-CAT machine data to optimize electrified site productivity.

Requirements

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 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.

Nice To Haves

Strong data "wrangling" experience – doing traditional ETL, complex data transformation, cleansing, curation and standardization
Applies data analysis and data modeling techniques to establish, modify, and maintain business data structures and associated components.
Fluency in SQL
Ability to build data pipelines in Python or other functional programming languages
Experience building visualizations using tools like Tableau or PowerBI
Thrive in an agile working environment of quick turns and frequent iteration
Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Knowledge of technical writing; ability to write detailed product requirements for data structures to support new application or analytic features/functionality.

Responsibilities

Manages the creation, maintenance, and prioritization of the Product Backlog according to business and strategic value for the life of the project.
Coordinates with engineering to develop and deploy new features and new releases on schedule.
Responsible for the capture and documentation of performance and persona-based requirements tied to the enablement of the electrification program.
Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough to satisfy program sprint planning requirements.
Capable of interrogating 3rd party APIs, identifying data structure and developing basic scripting to pull data and build basic data warehouses as part of pilot projects that will influence future product definition.