Ford Motor Company

Engineering Product Manager

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field
  • Over 5 years in technical product management or delivery roles
  • Experience collaborating with software engineering teams on technical products
  • Ability to dissect complex problems into manageable tasks
  • Solid technical knowledge of modern software systems
  • Experience in agile, iterative delivery environments

Responsibilities

  • Own daily product delivery, ensuring clear prioritization and alignment with objectives
  • Collaborate with engineers and managers to define and prepare technically sound backlog items
  • Translate needs into actionable requirements, stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Maintain and evolve team backlog, balancing various work types
  • Partner with engineering teams to plan and sequence work, manage dependencies
  • Participate in team ceremonies to foster collaboration and continuous improvement
  • Communicate progress and risks to stakeholders, ensuring transparency

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance and family building benefits
  • Employee discounts on vehicles and management leases
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data driven and is dedicated to delivering industry leading customer experiences for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on what matters most, and delivering excellence day in and day out.

This role sits in the Business Applications and Ecosystem Services (BA&ES), part of the Vehicle Cloud and Mobile organization. BA&ES designs, builds, and operates the core applications and ecosystem capabilities that underpin many of Ford's digital experiences. We deliver innovative, trusted global solutions that other teams rely on, shipping small, incremental changes while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and reliability.

In this position, you will be responsible for the day to day running of an engineering team, ensuring there is clear direction, well defined work, and strong alignment between product intent and technical execution. As an Engineering Product Manager, you will work closely with engineers, engineering managers, and other partners to translate outcomes into actionable plans, support effective delivery, and continuously improve how value is delivered to customers and internal consumers.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Own the day to day technical deliverables for a team, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with agreed outcomes.

Collaborate closely with software engineers, engineering managers, and technical leaders to shape backlog items that are technically sound, well scoped, and ready for delivery.

Translate customer, business, and platform needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria that support incremental delivery.

Maintain and evolve the team backlog, balancing new work, technical improvements, operational needs, and delivery commitments.

Partner with engineering to plan and sequence work effectively, managing dependencies and trade offs while maintaining a sustainable delivery pace.

Actively participate in team ceremonies and ways of working, supporting a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Communicate progress, risks, and changes clearly to stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.

Use data, feedback, and learning from delivery to refine priorities and improve outcomes over time.

Work with other product and delivery partners to ensure alignment across teams and reduce friction at boundaries.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field of study and professional experience.

5+ years of professional experience in a technical product management or delivery focused role working closely with software engineering teams.

Hands on software development experience with one or more language( E.g: Java or Kotlin)

Strong experience working with software engineers on complex, technical products or digital capabilities.

Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into well defined, deliverable units of work.

Solid technical understanding of modern software systems, enabling effective collaboration and trade off discussions with engineers.

Experience working in agile, iterative delivery environments with a focus on incremental value and fast feedback.

Even better, you may have...

Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage competing demands and changing priorities.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and stakeholder groups.

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 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

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required 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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Net Income
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Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
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