Senior Product Manager, Vehicle Care

Ford Motor Company Senior Product Manager, Vehicle Care Charleston, West Virginia Apply Now

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Launched in 2023, Integrated Services creates and markets new customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services across Ford Blue, Model e and Ford Pro. These products and services allow Ford's retail and commercial customers to customize their vehicles like never before with OTA (over-the-air)-driven experiences that grow better over time. Ford is developing leadership at the forefront of connected, digital platforms that will revolutionize every aspect of how vehicles function, the way people interact with them, and the value those vehicles provide.

In this position...

The Integrated Services Product Management team is looking for a Senior Product Manager, responsible for defining strategy, enhancing/creating new customer experiences to drive an elevated vehicle service experience, enabled through digital products. While defining the product strategy, we must leverage one of our greatest assets, our dealer partners, tightly integrating our delivery with their systems and operations.

This individual will make data driven decisions, coordinating strategy and development between engineering, design, product management and business to fulfill the vision, creating a world where our Care+ customers are never disrupted by the burden of vehicle service again.

The ideal candidate will obsess over making the vision a reality, will have an ability to operate strategically and tactically, working independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. This individual will also be a leader in the organization, taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in an ambiguous and dynamic business environment.

What you'll do...

1. Lead integration of gen AI-augmented proactive outreach platform (partnership or acquisition)
2. Enable backend data integration across: Vehicle Health / Prognostics / Customer data / AI Guide (Co-Pilot) and underlying model requirements / etc.
3. Drive quality assurance and performance optimization across the tech stack
4. Conduct iterative, fast paced experiments in order to drive the development of products and services our customers love
5. Partner closely with your engineering matched pair to deliver the above
6. Analyze data and perform sophisticated analytical exercises
7. Own the strategy for your product area, defining your vision, goals, and investments
8. Work with design to prototype and ideate on future state products
9. Develop new product pitches and requirements, translating into high quality product roadmaps
10. Coordinate a large, diverse, product team to innovate new and enhance existing products to drive your vision.
11. Drive standardization, simplification, and automation of internal processes and product development mechanisms to increase throughput
12. Manage weekly, and monthly product/business reporting

You'll have...

1. 5+ years of experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
2. 5+ years in a product management role
3. 2+ years of experience using data to influence decisions at an executive or leadership level
4. 2+ years of experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
5. 2+ years of experience with end-to-end product delivery

Even better, you may have...

1. Consulting experience with a focus on product management, software, or design a plus
2. Master's degree in business, administration, organizational development, computer science, or related field
3. Ability to apply personal expertise and/or experience regarding software development, product management or design
4. Experience with development of an LLM
5. Experience with a franchise model
6. Strong organizational and time management skills can manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously, multi-task, and meet deadlines.
7. Excellent cross-group collaboration skills, ability to impact outcomes in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
8. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, capable of presenting to senior leadership
9. Excellent business judgment and demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
10. A proven track record of setting and exceeding aggressive goals
11. Ability to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment
12. Ability to work independently and effectively across internal and external organizations
13. Experience and knowledge in working with KPI’s and OKR’s
14. Experience facilitating user interviews and other market research
15. Adaptable and able to handle a high amount of variability
16. Fast working and organized

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:

1. Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
2. Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
3. Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
4. Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
5. Tuition assistance
6. Established and active employee resource groups
7. Paid time off for individual and team community service
8. A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
9. Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: Salary and Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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