**Career Area:** Engineering **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. The Autonomy Growth Strategy Specialist will run the business system behind the internal/external opportunity discovery process and translate those insights into financially grounded recommendations (NPV/IRR scenarios, alpha identification, and) that leadership can act on. This position is built for a high-performance operator who thrives under pressure, brings structured thinking to ambiguous problems, and can coordinate cross-functionally to drive outcomes at enterprise scale. **What You Will Do:** Strategic Finance & Market Translation (Embedded in the Gameboard) + Build structured financial analyses (NPV/IRR, scenarios, sensitivity ranges) to estimate value creation, strategic option value, and downside risk. + Identifying alpha for customers and shareholders, alpha under risk, and opportunities to safeguard customer value across CAT technology informed by prioritized financial lifetime value for the customer and ecosystem + Develop recommendations for leadership: clear investment theses, payoff logic, execution dependencies, and recommended next actions. **Cross-Functional Execution & Governance** + Drive alignment across strategy, engineering, product, partnerships, and corporate venture to move priority opportunities from “interesting” to “executed.” + Coordinate with internal stakeholders to maximize value from partnerships and ensure outcomes are measured and reported. **What You Have:** + **Influencing Through Expertise:** Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization. + **Strategic Thinking:** Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. + **Managing Multiple Priorities:** Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. + **Communicating Complex Concepts:** Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience **Consideration for Top Candidates:** + Experience spanning strategy, product, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, venture diligence, or corporate development with a track record of turning market insight into action. + Strong narrative + quantitative blend: comfortable moving between customer/market insight and financially grounded decisioning. + MBA from a top tier university with finance depth preferred. + Prior startup operating experience, prior investing experience, strong relationships across the customer ecosystem (mining and construction) **Additional Information:** + This position requires the candidate to work full-time in San Franscico, CA. + Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position. + Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position. + This position will require up to 25% travel + \#LI **Summary Pay Range:** $162,540.00 - $264,120.00 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 This position requires working onsite five days a week. Relocation is available for this position. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. **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. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .