Product Owner III

About the role

We are looking for a talented PrevenTech Product Owner to join our Cummins Inc. team. In this role, you will make an impact by:

• Defining and driving product vision, ensuring alignment between customer needs, business priorities, and strategic objectives.
• Prioritizing and managing product backlogs to maximize business value and accelerate delivery of high-impact digital solutions.
• Translating customer feedback and market insights into actionable product enhancements that improve user experience and adoption.
• Collaborating with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver scalable, reliable products that support operational excellence and customer success.
• Enabling seamless integration across OEM systems, service tools, and data platforms to create connected user experiences.
• Establishing clear product goals, metrics, and outcomes that drive continuous improvement and measurable business results.
• Facilitating effective planning and execution activities, ensuring teams remain focused on delivering customer-centered solutions.
• Influence stakeholders across the organization to align priorities, remove obstacles, and achieve successful product outcomes.

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Strong Agile product ownership expertise with the ability to balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build alignment across matrixed organizations, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong customer focus, business insight, and analytical thinking to translate complex challenges into valuable product solutions.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate product strategy, priorities, and outcomes.
• A growth mindset with a passion for continuous improvement, Lean-Agile principles, and delivering measurable business value.

Requirements

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required.
• SAFe® Product Owner/Agile Product Manager (POPM) certification preferred.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Preferred Key Competencies

• Own and manage the PrevenTech product backlog, translating business strategy into prioritized features, user stories, defects, and enablers that deliver measurable customer value.
• Leverage Lean Agile and SAFe methodologies to support Program Increment (PI) planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement activities.
• Apply Behavior Driven Development (BDD), user story elaboration, and acceptance criteria management to improve development efficiency and reduce rework.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Data Science, System Architecture, and CARE teams to deliver end-to-end digital solutions that enhance uptime, reliability, and total cost of ownership.
• Gather and synthesize Voice of Customer (VOC) insights, market trends, and user feedback to shape product roadmaps and drive customer-centric innovation.
• Utilize Program Backlog Management, Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to prioritize work and optimize business outcomes.
• Drive adoption of Agile systems thinking by balancing technical enablers, business objectives, and long-term product sustainability.
• Preferred experience serving as a Product Owner within an Agile environment and delivering software or digital product solutions.
• Preferred ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, manage competing priorities, and build consensus without direct authority.