Autonomy Portfolio Manager

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Help Build the Future of Caterpillar

At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world—on real jobsites, at global scale.

You’ll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations—over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily. These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.

Be Part of What’s Next in Autonomous Construction Sites

Construction autonomy is one of the most complex challenges in applied AI, and at Caterpillar, advancements in physical AI, simulation, sensing, and edge computing are turning things that once felt impossible—intelligent machines operating in dynamic jobsites—into reality.

Our connected ecosystem brings together massive volumes of high-quality data to create a foundation where engineers like you can build and deploy against.

If this work motivates you, we invite you to join our team. In these roles, you’ll work at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. You’ll help design and deliver intelligent systems that enable machines to perceive their environment, make informed decisions, and support safer, more productive operations.

Apply today to build the new era of construction autonomy at Caterpillar.

Job Summary:

The Portfolio Manager (Autonomy) runs the day-to-day Portfolio operating system for Construction Autonomy and the broader CI portfolio. This role integrates roadmap, governance, financial, dependency, partner, and executive-review inputs into clear decisions, controlled changes, accountable actions, and closure. The Portfolio Manager coordinates the Portfolio team’s operating work across demand, reporting, governance, analysis, and cross-mission execution.

What You Will Do:

• Run the Portfolio operating rhythm, including review readiness, integrated agendas, decision paths, action closure, and escalation follow-through.
• Maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap and governance view across Objectives, Customer Market Requirements, Epics, Features, Milestones, dependencies, evidence, baselines, forecasts, and controlled changes.
• Integrate inputs from Product Management, TPMs, Mission Leads, the RTE, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Communications, and external partners into decision-ready portfolio views.
• Operate Financial Governance reviews and closure, using authoritative financial, SOW, supplier, forecast, funding, and invoice information prepared by Finance and the Finance Program Manager.
• Lead delegated cross-domain and external-dependency orchestration, ensuring material impacts are connected to milestones, decisions, owners, escalation paths, and closure evidence.
• Coordinate deployment and continuous improvement of the Portfolio Operating Model, Ways of Working interfaces, governance standards, and controlled documentation.
• Provide integrated roadmap, capacity, risk, dependency, partner, and financial implications for prioritization and start-stop-continue-defer recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive decision narratives, scenarios, and review packages; represent the Portfolio function in delegated forums and escalate material tradeoffs.
• Direct and coordinate Portfolio team work, protect clear accountability, and ensure recurring work transfers from temporary bridges to named owners.

What You Will Have:

• Planning: Tactical and Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and the ability to connect near-term operating plans, multi-year roadmaps, resources, dependencies, and business objectives.
• Program and Portfolio Management: Knowledge of practices used to organize, govern, monitor, and integrate multiple complex digital programs and interdependent workstreams.
• Project Administration: Ability to establish operating discipline, maintain decision and action traceability, resolve conflicts, and ensure work follows defined governance processes.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting information, frame options and consequences, and drive timely, evidence-based decisions.
• Organizational Leadership: Ability to coordinate diverse teams, assign clear ownership, influence across organizational boundaries, and deputize effectively for senior leadership.
• Change Control: Knowledge of processes used to identify, evaluate, approve, communicate, monitor, and document material changes to scope, sequence, funding, milestones, and commitments.
• Project Control and Reporting: Ability to integrate roadmap, delivery, financial, risk, dependency, and partner information into concise, credible reporting and executive decision support.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Experience leading portfolio or program governance across multiple technical teams, programs, suppliers, or partner organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run an operating rhythm that produces decisions, accountable actions, controlled changes, escalation, and closure.
• Experience integrating technical delivery, roadmap, capacity, financial, procurement, and partner information for senior-leadership decisions.
• Ability to operate at both executive and working-team altitudes without absorbing accountability that belongs to Product, TPM, Mission Lead, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, or the RTE.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Power BI, or comparable portfolio and work-management tools, including traceability, dependency, and reporting concepts.
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to simplify complex cross-functional issues into clear options and recommendations.

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate to work full-time onsite at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position

Summary Pay Range:

$159,120.00 - $238,680.00

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

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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