[Hiring] Manager, Digital Product Strategy @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

As Manager, Digital Product Strategy at Ford, you’ll tackle consequential questions: where should we invest in our digital product portfolio, what should we stop, and how do we connect vehicles, digital products, dealers, and services into an experience that our customers value? You’ll work with senior leaders across Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, and Ford Pro to pressure-test major bets, shape portfolio choices, and turn recommendations into measurable action.

In this position, you will lead complex work that connects Ford's enterprise and Integrated Services priorities to Digital Product strategy, portfolio investments, and execution. Working closely with the Director of Digital Product Strategy and senior Digital Product leaders, you will bring Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, and business partners together around evidence-backed recommendations and compelling stories.

Responsibilities

• Digital Product Strategy & Portfolio Choices
  • Set portfolio direction: Translate enterprise and Integrated Services priorities into strategy for the retail ecosystem, simpler and more intuitive experiences, confidence to do more with the vehicle, and Ford Pro Intelligence.
  • Pressure-test the bets: Evaluate where to double down, invest, sustain, or pull back.
• Strategic Questions, Market & Ecosystem
  • Frame build/buy/partner choices: Develop recommendations on what Ford must own, where it should partner, and how to protect customer experience and strategic control points.
  • Run the intelligence loop: Track customer needs, competitors, platform shifts, and partner moves.
• Strategy Deployment & Decision Cadence
  • Connect strategy to delivery: Tie strategic pillars to proposed roadmaps using established objectives and measures to inform choices.
  • Put established measures to work: Partner with the teams that own Digital Product metrics and performance reporting.
• Executive Storytelling & Team Leadership
  • Own consequential narratives: Develop sharp, evidence-backed materials for Digital Product and Integrated Services leaders.
  • Lead through influence: Independently drive complex workstreams with Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Retail, Ford Pro, and service partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Product Strategy, or a related field.
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, assess a portfolio of bets, test assumptions, build business cases, and make explicit recommendations and trade-offs.
• Exceptional writing and presentation skills; ability to turn complex analysis into a clear, persuasive, decision-ready story.
• Ability to manage several high-priority workstreams and deliver rigorous work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to connect customer needs, product choices, platform and delivery constraints, business outcomes, and enterprise priorities.
• Ability to align cross-functional leaders through trust, sound judgment, and a candid view of evidence and risks.
• Must be willing to work EST time zone hours.

Requirements

• Experience across connected vehicle services, digital commerce, dealer and service journeys, commercial fleet products, or software platforms.
• Experience advising senior executives or leading cross-functional strategy work in a large, complex organization.
• Experience using established goals and measures to inform portfolio priorities, learning, and clear cross-functional decisions.
• Ability to make an argument clear through high-quality presentation design or lightweight concepting.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• 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.
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.