Product Manager, Generative AI & Analytics

Ford Motor Company; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks an experienced AI Product Manager to define the strategy, roadmap, and long-term vision for AI enablement across business units. You will partner with engineering, data science, UX, and platform teams to launch AI-powered products that improve productivity and decision support.

The role focuses on translating user needs into concrete requirements, experiments, and measurable success criteria while aligning with enterprise transformation goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, CS, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field.
• 8-10 years of Product Management experience.
• Experience delivering AI, analytics, data, or developer-focused products.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, NLP, and conversational interfaces.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, and outcome-based metrics.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience working with engineering, ML, UX, and business teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product strategy, roadmap, and long-term AI enablement vision.
• Partner with engineering, data science, UX, and platform teams to develop AI-powered products.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity, automation, insight generation, and user experience.
• Align product priorities with business objectives and enterprise digital transformation strategies.
• Conduct research with business users, analysts, engineers, developers, and operational stakeholders.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements, user stories, epics, and measurable success criteria.

Skills

Product management

AI product line

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

ML/AI platforms

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business/CS/Engineering/IS/Data Science)

MBA or advanced degree

Tools

Azure / AWS / GCP

Job description

• Increase active engagement across business users, analysts, developers, and operational teams.
• Demonstrate sustained growth in product adoption and usage.

What Success Looks Like

User Adoption

• Increase active engagement across business users, analysts, developers, and operational teams.
• Demonstrate sustained growth in product adoption and usage.

Accuracy and Trust

• Deliver reliable AI experiences with measurable improvements in response quality, relevance, and user satisfaction.
• Establish evaluation frameworks that ensure transparency and confidence in AI-generated outputs.

Productivity Impact

• Improve business, analyst, and developer productivity through AI-powered automation and insights.
• Reduce manual effort and accelerate access to information and decision support.

Scalability and Enablement

• Enable onboarding of additional domains, functions, and teams through reusable AI capabilities and improved metadata quality.
• Increase organizational readiness for enterprise AI adoption.

Product Strategy and Vision

• Define and execute the product strategy, roadmap, and long-term vision for AI enablement capabilities.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity, automation, insight generation, and user experience.
• Align product priorities with business objectives and enterprise digital transformation strategies.

Product Discovery and User Experience

• Conduct research with business users, analysts, engineers, developers, and operational stakeholders.
• Identify user pain points and opportunities through data-driven discovery and experimentation.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements, user stories, epics, and measurable success criteria.

AI Product Delivery

• Partner closely with engineering, data science, UX, and platform teams to develop and launch AI-powered products.
• Guide development of conversational interfaces, AI assistants, natural language analytics, and developer productivity tools.
• Define experimentation frameworks and evaluation methodologies for AI capabilities and model performance.

Metrics and Business Value

• Establish KPIs and success measures focused on adoption, engagement, productivity, quality, trust, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor product outcomes and continuously optimize based on user feedback and behavioural insights.
• Develop business cases and value realization frameworks for AI investments.

Governance and Responsible AI

• Champion Responsible AI principles, governance frameworks, and compliance requirements.
• Promote metadata quality, knowledge management, explainability, and trustworthy AI practices.
• Partner with security, legal, and governance stakeholders to ensure policy compliance.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong partnerships across business functions, technology organizations, and senior leadership.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, roadmap, risks, and outcomes effectively to executive and technical audiences.
• Drive organisational adoption and change management activities for AI-powered capabilities.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of Product Management experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering AI, analytics, data, or developer-focused products.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and conversational interfaces.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, and outcome-based success metrics.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience working with engineering, machine learning, user experience, and business teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills.

Preferred

• Experience launching enterprise AI or Generative AI products at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or AWS.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and knowledge management solutions.
• Experience defining evaluation frameworks for AI quality, trust, and model performance.
• Prior experience in developer productivity, internal platforms, or enterprise tooling products.
• MBA or advanced degree in a related discipline.