Senior Autonomy Designer (Product Owner) / Designer senior en systèmes autonomes (Chef de produit)
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About the Role
Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Autonomy Designer (Product Owner) to join the Cat MineStar Solutions group in Laval, QC. This tactical product leader will manage the team backlog, refine features and stories, and ensure delivery alignment within an Agile framework.
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Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the team backlog, ensuring work items are structured, prioritized, and continuously refined
- Ensure Features and Stories have sufficient clarity for implementation (problem/context, acceptance criteria, dependencies, constraints)
- Drive backlog hygiene and traceability so work remains visible, current, and actionable in the team’s tooling (ex: Azure DevOps)
- Lead and/or coordinate backlog refinement to prepare work for upcoming sprints
- During sprint planning, present the highest priority work and facilitate the conversation so the team can make realistic commitments
- Provide ongoing clarification during execution to keep delivery unblocked and aligned to intended outcomes
- Act as the team’s primary day to day interface for stakeholders, ensuring the team plan remains aligned to stakeholder needs
- Coordinate priority conflicts and dependency impacts with peer teams to preserve flow and delivery confidence
- Be accountable for Story acceptance, confirming work meets acceptance criteria, aligns to Definition of Done
- Ensure validation evidence is captured appropriately (tests, demos, notes, acceptance outcome)
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (electrical, software, computer) or equivalent experience
- Fluency in English and French (both written and spoken) is preferred
- Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems
- Software Development Lifecycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle
- Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing
- Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development
- Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI)
- Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools
- Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques
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Job Description
- The Senior Autonomy Designer (Product Owner) within the Cat® MineStar™ Solutions group is the tactical product leader embedded with an Agile delivery team, accountable for maximizing the value delivered by ensuring the team backlog is clear, prioritized and execution ready.
- This individual translates strategy and stakeholder intent into well defined Features and Stories, drives backlog refinement, provides day to day decisions and clarifications, and formally accepts completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
- This is a delivery aligned role focusing on enabling effective team execution and predictable outcomes, not portfolio strategy.
What You Will Do
- Own and maintain the team backlog, ensuring work items are structured, prioritized, and continuously refined.
- Ensure Features and Stories have sufficient clarity for implementation (problem/context, acceptance criteria, dependencies, constraints).
- Drive backlog hygiene and traceability so work remains visible, current, and actionable in the team’s tooling (ex: Azure DevOps).
- Lead and/or coordinate backlog refinement to prepare work for upcoming sprints.
- During sprint planning, present the highest priority work and facilitate the conversation so the team can make realistic commitments based on capacity.
- Provide ongoing clarification during execution to keep delivery unblocked and aligned to intended outcomes.
- 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.
- Coordinate priority conflicts and dependency impacts with peer teams (and escalate where needed) to preserve flow and delivery confidence.
- Be accountable for Story acceptance, confirming work meets acceptance criteria, aligns to Definition of Done, and is suitable for release/use.
- Ensure validation evidence is captured appropriately (tests, demos, notes, acceptance outcome) to avoid “nearly done” carryover.
- Maintain delivery visibility by keeping planned work accurately represented (ex: sprint level view, start/target dates where your process uses them).
What You Have (Basic Requirements)
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (electrical, software, computer) or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
- Fluency in English and French (both written and spoken) is preferred to effectively communicate with diverse stakeholders.
- Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters.
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.
- Software Development Lifecycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle.
- Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing.
- Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development.
- Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques.
What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications)
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and optimize a product backlog, including backlog refinement, prioritization aligned to business value, breaking down complex work in deliverable increments (slicing), and ensuring items meet a clear “definition of ready.”
- Strong track record of operating within Agile frameworks, actively contributing to key ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, and acceptance activities.
- Confident in managing and maintaining work items within delivery tools (ex: Azure DevOps), including creating, updating, organizing, and tracking work items.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders, facilitate discussions, remove ambiguity, and make timely, informed decisions.
- Experience within mining operations and/or familiarity with the MineStar™ product suite is advantageous.
Summary Pay Range
- CAD 108,400.00 CAD 135,500.00
Additional Information
- Location: Laval, QC (Canada)
- Required Travel: Up to 10% (International)
- Relocation Assistance Offered: None
- Canada Work Authorization Sponsorship Offered: None
- This position requires the selected individual to work onsite at the Laval, QC office.
- We are hiring to fill a new position.
- This position requires working onsite five days a week.
- Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
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