Product Owner

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Kosice, Slovakia

Product Owner for Caterpillar's digital and technology arm, focusing on building industry-leading digital solutions for customers and dealers using data, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities. The role involves supporting product backlog, translating needs into user stories, collaborating with engineering, tracking progress, and identifying process improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support prioritization and refinement of the product backlog, including defects, enhancements, and new features.
  2. Translate product needs, user feedback, and business priorities into clear features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  3. Maintain accurate and transparent work items in MS Azure DevOps to support delivery planning and execution.
  4. Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders to deliver features and releases on schedule.
  5. Participate in backlog refinement, scoping, solutioning, user acceptance testing, and retrospectives.

Skills

Required

  • Solid knowledge of agile methodologies and roles such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, and Product Owner rules and guidance.
  • 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.
  • Strong ability to work independently and good time management skills.

Nice to have

  • Solid knowledge of computer software, such as Microsoft Azure DevOps, Power BI, etc
  • Technical background and solid knowledge of technical aspects of data engineering.
  • PSM, PSO, PAL-E or SAFe related certification
  • PMI or PMP certification preferred.