Senior Product Manager – Pro Digital Sales Solutions

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off / holidays

Job summary

Ford in Dearborn, MI seeks a Senior Product Manager to define why we invest, what we build, and why it matters now. Lead digital product strategy with partners across regions; translate needs into measurable goals and prioritized features for value delivery.

Role collaborates with Engineering, UX, analytics, and business partners; fosters AI-enabled practices, roadmaps, and quarterly planning in a global, multi-region setting. Hybrid onsite four days/week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience with progressive responsibilities in digital products, software products or an Agile product-development environment.
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner or related product leadership role, including responsibility for product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, objectives and priorities aligned to customer needs and business goals.
• Clearly articulate why an opportunity matters, what outcome or capability should be delivered, and why it should be prioritized now.
• Develop and maintain multi-quarter, outcome-oriented product roadmaps that communicate strategic direction, expected value and measurable goals.
• Partner with business stakeholders and business partners across regions to understand strategic priorities, customer challenges, operational pain points and market opportunities.
• Lead product discovery through customer interviews, stakeholder workshops, analytics, user research, experimentation and opportunity assessment.
• Validate product opportunities and assumptions using customer feedback, qualitative and quantitative insights, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Define product objectives, key performance indicators and success measures; regularly review results and use insights to guide future investment and roadmap decisions.
• Own epic- and feature-level requirements, including problem statements, intended outcomes, scope, constraints and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize features and product investments based on customer value, business impact, strategic alignment, evidence, risk, dependencies and available capacity.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers to obtain estimates, understand technical constraints and sequence prioritized work into achievable quarterly plans.
• Work with UX leaders and designers to ensure customer needs are understood, experiences are validated and design direction supports the intended product outcomes.
• Remain engaged throughout delivery as the source of product context, priority decisions and acceptance criteria while Engineering leads story decomposition, ceremonies and execution.
• Coordinate product-related stakeholders, dependencies, approvals and decisions required to support successful delivery and adoption.
• Lead or coordinate user acceptance testing, review completed work against acceptance criteria and provide timely product acceptance and go-live approval.
• Lead stakeholder roadmap reviews, prioritization discussions, product demonstrations and outcome reporting with clear communication of decisions and tradeoffs.
• Build alignment across business functions, technical disciplines, leadership levels, cultures and geographic regions, including teams working across multiple time zones.
• Use Ford-approved AI capabilities to accelerate product discovery, research synthesis, analysis, planning, documentation and stakeholder communication.
• Identify practical opportunities where AI can improve the customer experience, employee productivity, operational efficiency or product outcomes while following company policies and responsible-use expectations.
• Continuously learn and adopt approved tools and modern product-management practices, including Ford's internal PM tool Krystal where appropriate.
• Mentor and coach other Product Managers and contribute to consistent, outcome-oriented product-management practices across the organization.

Skills

Product management

Product owner

Agile methodologies

Roadmaps

Stakeholder alignment

AI-enabled product management

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

Master’s degree in Business Administration, Product Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics or a related field

Tools

Krystal

Job description

Ford in Dearborn, MI seeks a Senior Product Manager to define why we invest, what we build, and why it matters now. Lead digital product strategy with partners across regions; translate needs into measurable goals and prioritized features for value delivery.

Role collaborates with Engineering, UX, analytics, and business partners; fosters AI-enabled practices, roadmaps, and quarterly planning in a global, multi-region setting. Hybrid onsite four days/week.