Ford Motor Company

Digital Product Manager

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 3+ years of experience as a product manager for digital products
  • Experience with consumer-facing remote vehicle controls
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams
  • Strong leadership and communication abilities
  • Solid analytical skills
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies

Responsibilities

  • Define digital products that enhance customer experience based on feedback
  • Develop product documents in collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Manage product lifecycle and prioritize backlog with design and engineering
  • Balance business, user, and technical aspects to deliver quality software
  • Work directly with development teams to ensure timely delivery of products
  • Conduct product experiments and user interviews for insights
  • Analyze data to inform and enhance product decisions
  • Improve vehicle control and electrification experiences in Ford and Lincoln apps

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Subsidized backup childcare and family building benefits
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family
  • Tuition assistance and additional paid time off
  • Active employee resource groups and community service time
  • Generous paid holidays including the week of Christmas
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

You'll join Ford's Integrated Services organization - launched in 2023 to create and market next-generation customer experiences by integrating hardware, software, and services across Ford Blue, Ford Pro, and Lincoln. Our Digital Product Team turns customer insight, research, and market understanding into software that differentiates Ford and Lincoln vehicles and builds the OTA-driven, ever-improving experiences customers love. As part of this team, you'll help define how connected, digital platforms transform the way vehicles function, the way people interact with them, and the value they deliver - putting you at the forefront of reinventing mobility.

We're looking for passionate product professionals who will help us redefine the future of mobility. As a Digital Product Manager, you'll work cross-functionally to ensure the products we build meet and elevate the customer experience.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Define new digital products that enhance the customer experience by listening to customer data and feedback
  • Develop product artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, strategy documents) in partnership with cross-functional teams
  • Manage the product lifecycle and prioritize the product backlog in collaboration with design and engineering
  • Balance business viability, user desirability, and technical feasibility while delivering software products
  • Partner hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences
  • Conduct product experiments, user interviews, and other validation techniques to gather customer and product insights
  • Analyze customer and market data to inform and improve product decisions
  • Improve and enhance vehicle controls and electrification experiences within the Ford and Lincoln mobile applications


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 3+ years of experience as a product manager for digital products
  • Experience with consumer-facing remote vehicle controls
  • Demonstrated success leading collaborative efforts among engineering, design, and business teams to achieve shared objectives
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization
  • Solid analytical skills
  • Familiarity with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban)
  • Demonstrated effectiveness operating in complex organizations


Even better you'll have...
  • A deep passion for customers and their needs, with a track record of building and shipping products that meet those needs
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate product workflows, with examples of measurable impact on speed or process
  • Curiosity about new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning
  • Proficiency with Figma's prototyping features and backlog management in Jira
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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