Digital Product Strategy Lead – Portfolio & Execution

Ford; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid parental leave

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Flexible work options

Job summary

Ford in the United States seeks a Manager, Digital Product Strategy to shape the digital product portfolio, test bets, and connect vehicle, app, dealer, and service journeys into customer value.

You will work with senior leaders to drive strategic choices, deploy strategy to delivery, and lead through influence across multiple functions. The role is leadership-level with broad impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Product Strategy, or a related field, with demonstrated ability to own complex analysis and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strategic and analytical judgment: ability to structure ambiguous problems, assess a portfolio of bets, test assumptions, build business cases, and make explicit recommendations.
• Executive communication: exceptional writing and presentation skills; turn complex analysis into a clear, persuasive, decision-ready story.
• Operational discipline: manage several high-priority workstreams and deliver rigorous work under tight deadlines.
• Systems thinking: connect customer needs, product choices, platform delivery constraints, and enterprise priorities.

Responsibilities

• Set portfolio direction: translate priorities into strategy for the Digital Product portfolio and ensure customer and enterprise value.
• Pressure-test bets: evaluate where to invest, sustain, or pull back; assess proposals for strategic fit, value, reach, and delivery capacity.
• Frame build/buy/partner choices and track customer needs, competitors, and partner moves.
• Connect strategy to delivery: tie pillars to roadmaps, surface dependencies, and inform portfolio trade-offs.
• Develop evidence-backed materials for leaders, enable executive storytelling, and drive cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Management Consulting

Corporate Strategy

Product Strategy

Executive storytelling

Strategy deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Ford in the United States seeks a Manager, Digital Product Strategy to shape the digital product portfolio, test bets, and connect vehicle, app, dealer, and service journeys into customer value.

You will work with senior leaders to drive strategic choices, deploy strategy to delivery, and lead through influence across multiple functions. The role is leadership-level with broad impact.