Product Owner - CDS/GDE

We are looking for a talented Product Owner – CDS/GDE to join our team specializing in Marketing for Cummins Inc. in Columbus, IN.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Drive the long-term product line strategy, forecast, and operating plan to ensure sustainable growth, profitability, and alignment with business objectives.

• Lead successful product launches by developing introduction plans and executing comprehensive marketing strategies throughout the product lifecycle.

• Optimize product profitability by leading pricing strategy, budget planning, and resource allocation decisions that maximize business performance.

• Strengthen market position by leveraging customer insights and competitive research to define differentiated product value propositions.

• Enhance customer satisfaction by proactively addressing product-related issues, gathering feedback, and driving continuous improvements.

• Maximize product portfolio performance by overseeing lifecycle management decisions, including product enhancements, promotions, and obsolescence planning.

• Protect and grow the brand by ensuring effective product branding, communication strategies, and collaboration with legal and engineering teams to safeguard intellectual property.

• Develop talent and organizational capability by coaching Associate Product Managers, fostering professional growth, and building a high-performing product management team.

Responsibilities
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
• Leverage strong business and market insight to develop effective product strategies, translate market data into actionable plans, and make informed decisions that drive growth, profitability, and competitive advantage.

• Put customers at the center of every decision by building strong relationships, understanding customer needs, and delivering solutions that clearly articulate value while improving satisfaction and market adoption.

• Drive results through strategic product and marketing leadership by managing the full product lifecycle, developing effective marketing plans, optimizing pricing and promotions, and positioning products to win in target segments.

• Lead with inclusivity and influence by collaborating effectively across functions, valuing diverse perspectives, and guiding stakeholders toward decisions that support business objectives and successful product outcomes.

Qualifications
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree in Marketing, Sales, technical or related subject required.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:
Intermediate level of relevant work experience required.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position
• 5-7 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or in a related digital product role, with experience working in Agile environments. SAFe experience is strongly preferred.

• Collaborates with business to identify short and long-term business priorities. Owns backlog refinement, preparation for Program Increment planning, and participation in planning events.

• Defines and drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories; Builds, edits, and maintains the Team Backlog of user stories, defects, and enablers; Primarily responsibility for maintaining the flow of just-in-time story elaboration.

• Practices Lean/Agile leadership; contributes to vision and Program backlog; owns team backlog and implementation.

• Accepts user stories as done, including validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, has appropriate acceptance tests, and complies with the Definition of Done (DoD).

• Understands the scope of enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist decisions and sequencing of technological infrastructures.

• Understands Feature planning and prioritization for capabilities; Primary source for story detail and priorities in Iteration Planning,

• Reviews and accepts stories in the Team demo, participates in the Iteration Retrospective and the Inspect and Adapt workshop.

• Applies different approaches to convince others to change their opinion or plan, and wins support from others for ideas; is able to build support with peers without direct lines of reporting across a matrix organization.

• Has the ability to understand Data structures, APIs, and data models.
• Tracks KPIs around availability, usage, performance etc.

• Uses analytics to iterate and improve product performance.