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About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world''s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Industry: Heavy Equipment & Manufacturing
Caterpillar currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$131,789–$192,710
across 61 roles with salary data.
The Principal Technical Product Manager - Autonomy Platform Capabilities leads the alignment, adoption, and execution of strategic architectural and infrastructure initiatives to enable autonomous solutions at scale. This role serves as a primary orchestrator across architectural domains, where you will define system-level Epics, features, and requirements while managing roadmap development for shared platforms and integration patterns. You will collaborate with engineering, data, safety, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-domain dependencies and ensure technical decisions align with long-term scalability goals. The role requires expertise in systems architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, and product lifecycle management. You will work within the autonomy ecosystem to solve complex problems involving machine integration, edge computing architectures, and data foundations for connected assets. Key skills include technical product management, business analysis, and cross-functional leadership to drive common architectural standards across multiple products.
What does a Technical Product Manager earn?
Median $182500 from 33 postings across 16 companies.
Define and communicate long-term architectural visions, ecosystem strategies, and infrastructure roadmaps for autonomous solutions.
Translate high-level architectural goals into actionable product roadmaps and investment strategies across multiple domains.
Own the definition of acceptance criteria for platform capabilities, architectural services, and foundational technology investments.
Drive alignment between technical product managers to ensure roadmaps utilize common architectures and shared services.
Manage ecosystem-level dependencies, technical debt, architectural risks, and infrastructure constraints across various product lines.
Lead trade-off discussions to balance business value, platform adoption, and technical complexity during the development process.
Ensure autonomy products integrate effectively through standardized interfaces, common platforms, and established architectural patterns.
Monitor and report on platform adoption, ecosystem health, and the maturity of infrastructure readiness.
What we're looking for
Knowledge of product strategy, roadmap management, prioritization, requirements management, backlog development, and product lifecycle practices.
Ability to manage autonomous platform and infrastructure products that enable multiple business and technical domains.
Knowledge of business analysis techniques to identify stakeholder needs and align infrastructure investments with long-term value.
Ability to analyze architectural tradeoffs, ecosystem dependencies, technology investments, risks, and strategic priorities to make informed decisions.
Ability to communicate architectural vision, platform strategy, and technical risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Knowledge of systems architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, integration frameworks, APIs, and technology ecosystems.
Knowledge of platform product management, shared service development, ecosystem enablement, and reusable capability development.
At least 8 years of experience in Product Management, Platform Product Management, Technical Product Management, Systems Engineering, Architecture, Program Management, or related technical leadership roles (preferred).
Systems Architecture
Cloud Platforms
Distributed Systems
APIs
Platform Engineering
Data Platforms
Edge Computing
AI
Scrum
Roadmap Management
Integration Frameworks
Scalability
AI
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Marketing Automation
SaaS
Data Analytics
Jira
Confluence
ProductBoard
Slack
Google Workspace
Agile
Fintech
Digital Banking
E-commerce
Microservices
APIs
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Pipelines
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI
Web Technologies
Product Management
Program Management
System Design
Scalability
Reliability