Senior AEM Product Owner

Job Summary
The Product Owner, Digital Experience Platforms, is responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and operational priorities for Caterpillar's digital experience platforms, including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), and Vercel. This role serves as the bridge between business stakeholders, platform engineering teams, architecture, security, and application teams to ensure the platforms deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performing digital experiences.

The Product Owner will drive platform adoption, prioritize investments, manage platform backlogs, and ensure the platforms evolve to meet business and technical needs while aligning with enterprise objectives and digital transformation initiatives.

What You Will Do:

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and governance for the AEM, Vercel, Akamai, and Enterprise Delivery Services (EDS) platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives, digital experience goals, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Prioritize and manage the platform backlog, balancing business demand, platform enhancements, security requirements, technical debt, operational improvements, and modernization initiatives across all supported platforms.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, and security by overseeing Akamai CDN capabilities, web application security services, platform upgrades, incident management, vulnerability remediation, and service-level compliance.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, marketing, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable digital solutions, improve author and developer experiences, and accelerate platform adoption through standardized best practices and governance.
• Manage vendor relationships, licensing, budget planning, and operational metrics for Adobe, Akamai, Vercel, and related partners while providing executive reporting on platform health, roadmap progress, risks, investments, and business value realization.

What you will have:

• 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 Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.
• 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.

Consideration for top candidates:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Experience as Product Owner, Product Manager, or related experience within enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience managing digital experience, content management, or web application platforms.
• Strong experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS), Vercel Platform, Next.js Framework, CDN (Akamai) and Edge Computing technologies and AWS
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and product management practices.
• Preferred experience in Headless CMS architectures, Web Content Management Systems, Cloud Infrastructure and Hosting, Security and Compliance requirements, DevOps and CI/CD processes, Site Performance and Core Web Vitals, Digital Analytics and Monitoring

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, Denver, CO or Dallas, TX
• Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
• This position will require up to 10% travel

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $183,140.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

401(k) savings plans*

Health Savings Account (HSA)*

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

Health Lifestyle Programs*

Employee Assistance Program*

Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

Career Development*

Incentive bonus*

Disability benefits

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Adoption benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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