Senior Product Manager-Prototypes

Overview

At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation - grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

Job Type: Full time

Work Type: Hybrid

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be a strategic leader responsible for inspiring change, leading high-performing teams, and driving continuous improvement across our portfolio. The position is highly involved in transitioning the prototype portfolio from legacy applications into a modern integrated ecosystem. You will work closely with cross-functional partners spanning different levels and development teams to translate strategic roadmaps into tangible deliverables, ensuring efficient execution and alignment across all stakeholders. This role demands a blend of strategic thinking, agile leadership, and a deep understanding of both business and technical requirements to deliver high-quality, customer-centric software Products.

Management of family of products at all stages of the product lifecycle

Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.

Work closely with Business Partners and Product Owners to understand their product vision and break that vision down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.

Work with Product Designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.

Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, story maps, user stories).

Work hands-on with the cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that meets requirements.

Collaborate with the product team to define specs, requirements, and acceptance criteria for product capability and deliverables.

Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and our focus on incrementally delivering value through careful and deliberate prioritization.

Guide the development, testing, delivery, and support of modern solutions utilizing contemporary tools such as cloud-based computing technologies (GCP, CaaS), JAVA, Angular, Spring Boot, GitHub, Tekton, Junit, jMETER, Gradle, Eclipse/IntelliJ, Docker/Kubernetes, SonarQube, FOSSA, Cycode, CI/CD pipelines, 42 Crunch, Quay, Hoppscotch, and Artificial Intelligence.

Implement robust Agile development methodologies, including JIRA for Epic/Sub management, iteration planning, ceremonies, and retrospectives.

Drive the adoption and implementation of modern development methods such as integrated use of GitHub CoPilot in IDE for development acceleration.

Develop and implement strategic migration paths from legacy technologies to new, advanced platforms modernizing and simplifying the portfolio

Guide and share a deep understanding of the core functionality of the prototype planning and management process

Lead day to day management and development for a team of Ford and Agency members, including responsibilities for position posting, hiring, releasing, and fostering career growth. (approx. 10

Qualifications:

8+ years of knowledge of software development

Extensive Prototype domain knowledge

Understanding of Agile methods & best practices

Develop and manage the product roadmap with business Managers.

Convert roadmap into features and prioritize the product backlog.

Data-driven mindset for decision-making and prioritization

Internal & external management skillset for managing cross-team capabilities

Strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to teach others.

Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision-making.

Ability to collaborate well with Data Engineers, software engineers, designers, and business partners.

Ability to develop deep understanding of product functionality to provide high-level guidance to development teams

Experience leading a global team from both technical and delivery perspectives.

Takes ownership, operates with autonomy, and sees challenges as opportunities.

Experience in documenting & tracking OKRs

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, or related field, Master’s preferred.

Nice To Have:

Technical background in AI tools and cloud deployment/CI/CD technologies

Vendor management experience

SAP or 3DX experience

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week.

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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

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/LL6

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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.

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