Hybrid IT Product Manager

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: IT Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: RDBMS
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• IT Product Manager Specialist responsible for planning, integration, and governance in GDI&A Customer 360 Portfolio at Ford. Collaborating with cross-functional teams for impactful solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product teams to set strategy, define the product roadmap, and convey that to development team while adhering to agile software principles, culture, best practices and techniques.
• Partners with Portfolio Owner/Product Line Owners to develop SSDA/Customer Analytics plans for future Development and process
• Support with documentation/process support to run demand management process
• Ensure OKRs are translated into Epics/Sub Epics/Features across multiple teams, dependencies mapped out, and release plans coordinated.
• Facilitate Iteration/Scrum planning across the portfolio, driving the right priorities across the various Product groups/teams
• Measure each Product line/Product success in their transformation journey and suggest new improvements in the process
• Facilitate Product Demos for the Product lines and products
• Responsible for coordinating the team activities from a day-to-day assignment and delivery perspective to deliver effectively and drive for continuous improvement.
• Be responsible for outcomes by setting clear goals and measuring key results.
• Handle and Communicate dependencies across products and product lines.
• Responsible for supervising core delivery metrics (SDPI) and operational metrics
• Promote the Agile principles and Facilitates Team's ceremonies Including Iteration planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Fosters open and frequent communication and collaboration with the Product Teams
• Help partners understand our iterative development approach.
• Innovate and iterate on Agile PM processes and share our findings.
• Promotes best practice sharing and process consistency within the product portfolio and other GDIA products

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Manager experience.
• Bachelor of Science degree or diploma in Computer Science related field
• Skilled at defining and prioritizing backlog work items.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate sophisticated decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and Business Partners.
• Experience with JIRA or similar Agile Tools.
• Master's Degree preferred
• JIRA queries and reporting experience
• RDBMS experience writing basic queries.
• Familiarity with Hopscotch/Postman and/or SOAPUI, API
• Familiarity with HTML development
• Previous success working with an agile development team.
• Background in design or software development.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Paired Programming.
• Experience describing new functionality by writing clear, concise stories from the user perspective

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.