Senior Digital Product Owner; Salesforce Sales Cloud

Caterpillar · Industrial · Chicago, IL +2

This role is for a Senior Digital Product Owner for Salesforce Sales Cloud at Caterpillar. The primary focus is on understanding sales team needs and translating them into product roadmaps and user stories. While the role mentions AI capabilities, Agentforce, and Data Cloud, these are presented as components to be integrated into the existing Salesforce platform rather than the core focus of building AI models or systems. The role emphasizes product management, agile methodologies, and understanding the sales workflow.

What you'd actually do

  1. Translate what you learn into a clear product vision and roadmap, and tell that story in a way that lands with executives and the delivery team
  2. Own and prioritize the Product Backlog based on business value, user impact, and platform health
  3. Refine epics and features into well-formed user stories with clear acceptance criteria
  4. Champion Sales Cloud best practices and steer toward standard solutions over one-off customizations
  5. Help the business identify where Agentforce agents genuinely add value across the sales motion — lead triage, meeting prep, account research, follow-up, opportunity hygiene — and where they don't

Skills

Required

  • Strategic Roadmap and Vision
  • Strong ability to translate long-term company goals into a Salesforce Roadmap that balances new features with technical debt and platform upgrades
  • Knowledge and application of logical framework (like Value vs. Effort ) to prioritize the backlog
  • Understanding how a lead flows from a website click to a closed-won opportunity. Ability to spot process gaps and design solutions that fix the business problem, rather than just adding a new custom field.
  • Thorough understanding what the platform can do natively. Knowing the difference between a Flow, a Validation Rule, and a Custom Object allows you to guide developers and prevent "over-engineering."
  • You must be able to explain complex technical limitations to executives in terms of business risk and ROI, ensuring everyone is aligned on what can realistically be delivered.
  • Proven experience as a Digital Product Owner or Product Manager
  • Proven experience leading Salesforce delivery, with meaningful Sales Cloud focus
  • Experienced working in Agile environments
  • Experience partnering directly with sales organizations
  • Comfort with Agile tooling like Azure DevOps, JIRA, or Rally
  • Experience with onshore/offshore delivery models

Nice to have

  • CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) from Scrum Alliance preferred
  • Salesforce certifications — Administrator and Sales Cloud Consultant especially valued; Agentforce or Data Cloud credentials are a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Sales Cloud depth: lead-to-opportunity, forecasting, territory and account management, activity capture, sales engagement, reporting, and integrations with marketing automation, CPQ, CLM, and data enrichment tools
  • Curiosity about Agentforce, Data Cloud / Data 360, and agentic and headless AI — and a credible point of view on how they change the seller experience