Ford Motor Company

Direct of Product Management, Electrification

Ford Motor Company • $150K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years of product management experience with leadership in large, cross-functional organizations
  • In-person work required in Dearborn, MI or Palo Alto, CA
  • Background in electric vehicles, energy services, or automotive technology
  • Experience with managing global product portfolios and distributed teams
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex concepts to various stakeholders
  • Proven problem-solving capabilities in delivering solutions

Responsibilities

  • Own the digital product and feature roadmap for electrification solutions
  • Set and communicate the strategic vision for charging ecosystem
  • Deliver features for current and future EV models
  • Lead a team of product managers and coordinate activities
  • Analyze competitive landscape and differentiate Ford's offerings
  • Translate user needs into clear technical requirements
  • Measure product success and enhance offerings based on data-driven insights

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Employee benefits for family building, including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family
  • Tuition assistance available
  • Active employee resource groups and community service time off
  • Generous paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year
  • Paid time off with options to purchase additional vacation days
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

You will own the end-to-end digital product strategy and roadmap for Ford's electrification portfolio spanning grid services, core EV functions on-vehicle and in the Ford mobile app (range and routing, charge finding, and more), and the strategic vision for Ford's Blue Oval Charge Network. You'll be responsible for feature delivery across both Ford's current in-market EV nameplates and the upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, with a global customer base. We're looking for an experienced, visionary product leader who is passionate about shaping the future of electric vehicle ownership and energy experiences.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Own the digital product and feature roadmap for electrification, including grid services programs, core EV functions (range/routing, charge finding, scheduling, bi-directional power) and the Blue Oval Charge Network, across both mobile and in-vehicle surfaces.
  • Set and communicate the strategic vision for Ford's public and home charging ecosystem.
  • Deliver features across Ford's current in-market EV nameplates while simultaneously building the roadmap for future Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) nameplates.
  • Lead and develop a team of product managers/pillar owners.
  • Understand the competitive landscape and emerging technologies/trends in electrification and energy, and find ways to differentiate Ford's offering.
  • Translate customer needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge.
  • Measure success and continuously improve products using principled methods and metrics.
  • Drive alignment between engineering, design and other stakeholders across a globally distributed organization to achieve shared goals.
  • Articulate the electrification product vision, address challenges and report progress to Ford's executive leadership.
  • Effectively manage short-term tactical delivery needs while advancing long-term strategic objectives across a broad, global scope.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, with demonstrated leadership over large, cross-functional product organizations
  • Ability to work in person in our Dearborn, MI or Palo Alto, CA offices
  • Background in electric vehicles, energy services, connected services or automotive technology
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale software projects or product portfolios across both hardware (vehicle) and software (mobile/cloud) surfaces
  • Experience managing global product portfolios and distributed teams
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical and executive stakeholders
  • Proven track record of solving tough problems and delivering working solutions throughout your career
  • Ability to learn new skills and knowledge through self-initiative
  • Passion for serving your customers

Even better, you may have...
  • A degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Experience with grid services, EV charging networks, or bi-directional energy programs

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 the team, we encourage you to apply!

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 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.

This position is a leadership level 4.

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/LL4Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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

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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
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Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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$127.1 billion
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