About the role

Digital Product Manager defining product strategy and roadmap for innovative vehicle productivity apps. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance Ford's customer experiences through digital platforms.

Responsibilities

Define the strategic vision for your product areas, including the product roadmap and launch/roll-out strategy.
Translate our customers’ needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge.
Engage closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to make decisions that balance timing, cost, features, and performance while staying true to the product strategy and vision.
Measure our success and improve our products using principled methods and metrics; conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather customer feedback and product insights.
Create artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, Strategy Documents) to guide product development work.
Find innovative ways to accelerate our development, reduce risk, and the overall product development experience.
Seamlessly manage escalations across stakeholders and influence appropriately.

Bachelor's degree required.
4+ years of product management experience in the technology industry.
Proven ability to effectively utilize Jira for agile project management, including sprint planning, issue tracking, and reporting.
Domain knowledge across integrated hardware/software products, autonomy, or consumer-facing digital products. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the hardware and software systems required to bring consumer products to market in these sectors
Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, and to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends; excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills.
A deep passion for your customers, their needs, and for building/shipping products to meet these needs
Successfully launched products in a matrix organization and demonstrated ability to manage multiple products in production and their backlogs
Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization, including strong documentation skills
Strong data analysis skills
Familiarity with Agile Software Methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
Curiosity around new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.