Technical Product Manager

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. At Model E we strongly believe in individuals’ power to define their professional destiny. We are on the path to redefining our notion of freedom of movement, driving sustainable human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation and vehicle ownership.

Electrification services demand insight, imagination, and creativity at never before realized scale and spectrum. We are investing in emerging technologies and innovating our businesses to advance progress in Range & Routing, Public Charging, Home Energy Management, Smart Grid solutions for commercial and retail customers, enhanced vehicle ownership experience, and more.

• Prior experience managing a product team.
• Leverage their deep software acumen to develop program strategies, functional and technical requirements, resourcing plans, and technical roadmaps.
• Possess organizational agility, partnering with key stakeholders from multiple disciplines to align resources in service of the desired outcomes.
• Focus on delivering value to our customers through careful and deliberate prioritization of desired outcomes.
• Previous success working with an Agile development team.
• Background in software development - preferred.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative when solving unexpected problems.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Able to manage multiple conflicting priorities.
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Data-driven and result-oriented.
• Experience in building/managing technology products on cloud platforms.
Ability to work collaboratively and navigate complex decision-making in a rapidly changing environment.

Qualification / Education and preferred prior experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics/Energy Engineering, or related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with progressive responsibilities in cloud software development
• 3+ years of Technical Product Management experience in agile software delivery and backlog management tools, automated testing and release/dependency management, leading agile ceremonies
• 3+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and creating and managing backlogs.
• 3+ years of experience in building/managing technology products on cloud platforms.
• 2+ years of experience with handling complex, large data & data learning algorithms
• Previous success working with an Agile development team.
• Leverage their deep software acumen to develop program strategies, functional and technical requirements, resourcing plans, and technical roadmaps.
• Possess organizational agility, partnering with key stakeholders from multiple disciplines to align resources in service of the desired outcomes.
• Demonstrate continued drive for process improvements, thinking out of the box to motivate and encourage team members.
• Help Business Stakeholders understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Work with the multiple vehicle core component teams, other cross-functional teams (internal and external) to prioritize, plan, and deliver the product.
• Ensures the backlog is populated with enough prioritized user stories ready to be estimated for the next two iterations.
• Communicates openly and frequently with the team by responding to in-person prompts.
• Lead operational excellence in terms of innovation, agile delivery, validation, planning, capacity management and release execution.
• Identify and resolve critical roadblocks for the product teams and handle integration issues & risks
• Knowledge share and mentor others to collectively move the team forward with Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking principles; innovate and iterate on product management processes.

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

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• Lead definition, planning, execution and operationalization of complex technical initiatives in software space aimed at achieving strategic business goals.
• Prioritize customer scenarios and define functional success metrics to align project objectives with customer needs.
• Deliver or oversee delivery of comprehensive functional specifications aligned with project goals.
• Leverage technical expertise to design program strategies, robust technical architecture, functional and technical requirements.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders such as designers, software engineers and Product Managers to define project scope, objectives, and priorities ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Ensure project and program objectives, deliverables and outcomes are achieved within the agreed scope, timeline, budget and allocated resources.
• Demonstrate influential leadership by considering diverse perspectives, making decisive progress, and motivating the team to achieve project objectives.
• Identifies risks and create risk mitigation plans to ensure timely completion of the strategic projects/programs.
• Manage technology product goals and forecasts. Collaborate with software development team(s) to translate the long-term objectives into actionable technology strategy and an implementation roadmap.
• Redefines the backlog content to optimize business outcomes based on software product feedback.
• Understands business and user requirements to prioritize the product backlog and manage risks.