Lead Product Owner, Aem Asset & Workfront

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Peoria, IL +3

Lead Product Owner for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets and Adobe Workfront capabilities, focusing on defining product direction, managing backlog priorities, and partnering with stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver digital asset management and work management solutions. The role involves driving adoption, continuous improvement, and coordinating issue resolution and support for these platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and prioritize the product backlog for AEM Assets and Adobe Workfront, translating business needs into clear epics, features, and user stories for engineering teams.
  2. Partner with business stakeholders, content teams, architects, and developers to define product roadmaps, technical requirements, integrations, and release plans.
  3. Drive adoption and continuous improvement of digital asset management and workflow solutions by gathering feedback, identifying pain points, and recommending scalable platform enhancements.
  4. Coordinate issue resolution, change requests, UAT, and production support for AEM Assets and Workfront, ensuring strong governance, system reliability, and alignment with enterprise standards.

Skills

Required

  • Business Analysis
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Effective Communications
  • Software Change Request Management
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Problem Management
  • Software Product Business Knowledge
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Adobe Experience Manager Assets
  • Adobe Workfront
  • Agile delivery and project management tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally)
  • enterprise integrations
  • APIs
  • metadata models
  • content lifecycle management
  • governance practices
  • incident management
  • release planning
  • production support processes
  • product strategy
  • roadmap development
  • stakeholder management
  • software development lifecycle

Nice to have

  • Product Owner certification or equivalent Agile product management experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Extensive knowledge of business analysis techniques
  • Extensive experience analyzing technical and business tradeoffs
  • Extensive ability to communicate product vision
  • Extensive experience managing platform enhancements
  • Working knowledge of software engineering principles
  • Extensive knowledge of incidents, defect, and problem management practices
  • Extensive knowledge of digital asset management, workflow orchestration, content lifecycle, and business operations
  • Working experience planning, coordinating, and validating UAT
  • Extensive professional experience (typically 8+ years)
  • Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager Assets and Adobe Workfront
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional teams
  • Experience using Agile delivery and project management tools
  • Knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, metadata models, content lifecycle management, and governance practices
  • Working knowledge of incident management, release planning, and production support processes
  • Extensive knowledge of product strategy, roadmap development, and stakeholder management
  • Experience designing and coordinating UAT and rollout activities
  • Experience working with distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
  • Background in information technology, digital asset management, marketing technology, or enterprise content platforms