Ford Motor Company

Product Manager

Ford Motor Company$85K — $143K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Ability to prioritize product features and manage backlogs effectively
  • Strong leadership and communication skills for stakeholder management
  • Passion for enhancing customer experiences and product delivery
  • Experience in navigating complex organizational structures
  • Solid analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
  • Interest in hybrid and electric vehicle technologies
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Responsibilities

  • Define new digital products based on customer data and feedback
  • Create product documentation including PRDs and strategy documents
  • Manage product lifecycle and collaborate with design and engineering teams
  • Balance business viability, user desirability, and technical feasibility
  • Work directly with development teams on product prioritization and planning
  • Conduct product experiments and user interviews for insights
  • Analyze data to ensure informed decisions are made regarding customer needs

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave options
  • Family-building benefits such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Employee vehicle discount programs and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for continuing education
  • Participation in established employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service and generous holiday schedule
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Digital Product Manager at Ford, you will work cross-functionally to ensure the products we build will meet and elevate our customer's experience.

Responsibilities

  • Through listening to customer data and feedback, you will work to define new digital products to enhance the customer experience.
  • Work with a team to define product artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, Strategy Documents) for digital products
  • Manage product lifecycle, prioritize product backlog, collaborate with design and engineering teams, gather and analyze market and customer data.
  • Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
  • Work 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 data to make sure it is guiding us to make the best decisions for our customers.


Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Ability to build and manage product backlogs; can define and prioritize product features
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization
  • A deep passion for your customers, their needs, and for building/shipping products to meet these needs
  • Demonstrated effectiveness in complex organizations
  • Solid analytical skills
  • Strong interest in hybrid and electric vehicles
  • Curiosity around new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Nice-to-haves:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • Experience with vehicle software systems and electrified vehicle architecture
  • An understanding of vehicle and battery energy characteristics
  • 4+ years full time professional experience
  • 3+ years as a product manager, with successful product launches in the past
  • 3+ years defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps
  • 3+ years experience with Figma's prototyping features and managing product development using Jira

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 6 and ranges from $85,400-$143,200.,

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

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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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
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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