[Hiring] Senior Product Manager, Mobile Apps @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

In this position, you will work cross-functionally to ensure the products we build will meet and elevate our customers’ experience.

• Define the strategic vision for the Electrification and vehicle productivity experiences within the Ford and Lincoln mobile applications, including the product roadmap and launch/roll-out strategy.
• Translate our customers’ needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge.
• Engage closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to make decisions that balance timing, cost, features, and performance while staying true to the product strategy and vision.
• Measure our success and improve our products using principled methods and metrics; conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather customer feedback and product insights.
• Create artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, Strategy Documents) to guide product development work.
• Find innovative ways to accelerate our development, reduce risk, and the overall product development experience.
• Seamlessly manage escalations across stakeholders and influence appropriately.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of product management experience in the technology industry.
• Proven ability to effectively utilize Jira for agile project management, including sprint planning, issue tracking, and reporting.
• Domain knowledge across integrated hardware/software products, autonomy, or consumer-facing digital products.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• A deep passion for your customers, their needs, and for building/shipping products to meet these needs.
• Has built systems where AI operates autonomously and can demonstrate how they made those systems reliable.
• Successfully launched products in a matrix organization and demonstrated ability to manage multiple products in production and their backlogs.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Familiarity with Agile Software Methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban).
• Curiosity around new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or Business preferred.
• Master’s degree in business administration or similar advanced degree.
• 7+ years full time professional experience.
• Embedded software expertise.
• Mobile App Development experience.
• Experience using Figma for collaborative design workflows, including version control and feedback integration.

Benefits

• 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.