Technical Product Manager (Safety & Compliance)

Job Description

About the Role

Caterpillar is looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead the safety and regulatory compliance roadmap for its next generation of autonomous and software-driven equipment. This is a high-visibility role sitting at the intersection of product strategy, functional safety, and regulatory affairs — ideal for a PM who wants their work to directly shape how safety-critical machines get built, certified, and trusted in the field.

You'll own the compliance product portfolio end to end: requirements management, risk mitigation, certification support, and audit readiness — and you'll be the single point of accountability for deciding what gets built and when, based on safety impact and regulatory need.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a product backlog prioritized by safety impact, regulatory obligation, and business value
• Serve as the decision-maker on which compliance and safety features ship, and when
• Define acceptance criteria that hold every feature to applicable safety standards and internal governance
• Set the long-term compliance strategy across evolving safety standards and regulatory frameworks
• Lead hazard identification and risk assessments, and drive the resulting mitigation work
• Partner closely with Engineering, Legal, Quality, and Platform Architecture to bake compliance into the development lifecycle from day one, not bolt it on at the end
• Track and report safety KPIs — audit findings, certification milestones, and compliance effectiveness
• Maintain full traceability from requirement to implementation to validation, so regulatory reviews go smoothly
• Make the final call on release readiness based on safety and compliance status, not just feature completeness
• Communicate compliance status and certification progress clearly to stakeholders, customers, and regulators

What You Bring

• 8+ years in Product Management, Safety Engineering, Compliance, Risk Management, or Quality Systems
• Real experience running hazard analyses, safety cases, and risk mitigation programs for complex or safety-critical systems
• A working knowledge of safety standards, regulatory frameworks, and certification processes — you don't need to be a lawyer, but you need to speak the language
• A track record of getting Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Quality teams aligned around a shared roadmap
• Experience standing up governance frameworks and audit-readiness processes — not just following someone else's
• Background in autonomous systems, connected products, or industrial/heavy equipment is a strong plus

Team & Environment

You'll work inside Caterpillar's Technology, Digital & Data organization — the group responsible for turning over a century of heavy-equipment expertise into software, connectivity, and AI capabilities. This isn't a lone-wolf PM seat: you'll sit shoulder-to-shoulder with Product Owners, engineers, functional safety specialists, legal counsel, and quality teams, inside a structure where safety sign-off actually matters and isn't just a checkbox on a form.

Why This Role Is Worth a Look

Caterpillar builds the equipment that runs the world's construction sites, mines, and infrastructure projects — and increasingly, that equipment is autonomous and connected. Getting the safety and compliance layer right isn't a side function here; it's what makes the autonomy roadmap possible at all. If you want product work with real physical-world stakes, not just another dashboard ship, this is that kind of role.

This is a technical, cross-functional PM role, not a generalist PM seat. Whether your background leans toward safety/compliance engineering with product instincts, or product management with deep safety-domain fluency, do apply for this role.

Logistics

• Location: Irving, Texas (Dallas area) — onsite, five days a week
• Relocation: Domestic relocation assistance available
• Visa sponsorship: Not available for this role
• Background check: Offer contingent on a completed drug screen