Senior Autonomy Designer (product Owner) / Concepteur Senior En Autonomie (product Owner)

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Laval, QC

Senior Autonomy Designer (Product Owner) for Caterpillar's Cat® MineStar™ Solutions group, focusing on the tactical product leadership within an Agile delivery team. The role is accountable for maximizing value by managing and prioritizing the team backlog, translating strategy into features and stories, and ensuring clear execution readiness. This position supports the development and optimization of mining operations through autonomy and automation technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and maintain the team backlog, ensuring work items are structured, prioritized, and continuously refined.
  2. Lead and/or coordinate backlog refinement to prepare work for upcoming sprints.
  3. Act as the team’s primary day-to-day interface for stakeholders, ensuring the team plan remains aligned to stakeholder needs and inter-team dependencies.
  4. Be accountable for Story acceptance, confirming work meets acceptance criteria, aligns to Definition of Done, and is suitable for release/use.
  5. Ensure validation evidence is captured appropriately (tests, demos, notes, acceptance outcome) to avoid “nearly done” carryover.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (electrical, software, computer) or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
  • Agile delivery team experience
  • Backlog management and prioritization
  • Stakeholder management
  • Software Development Lifecycle knowledge
  • Problem Solving skills

Nice to have

  • Fluency in English and French (both written and spoken)
  • Industry Knowledge (mining, autonomy, automation)
  • Software Product Testing knowledge

What the JD emphasized

  • Fluency in English and French (both written and spoken) is preferred to effectively communicate with diverse stakeholders and ensure accurate interpretation of information.
  • Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
  • Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
  • Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adhere