Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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...

We are seeking a Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform who owns the product end-to-end and consistently ships high-quality, customer loved products.

This is a hybrid position requiring an onsite schedule of 4 days a week Palo Alto, CA office or in the Dearborn, MI. This is not a remote position.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Management Science, Information Management.
• 7 years in product management (e.g. API/data platform, SaaS) including > 3 years people leadership.
• B2B Growth Product Management experience with demonstrated success commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs.
• Expertise in scalable data ingestion and API lifecycle management (REST and event streaming), including gateways, versioning/deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer integration/debugging.
• Experience building and managing developer ecosystems (portals, sample code) at scale to improve developer experience.
• Proficient with analytics and defining/monitoring KPIs.
• Working knowledge of privacy/security (GDPR/CCPA) and data governance.
• Excellent communication and influence in matrixed environments, customer-obsessed and outcomes-driven.

Even better, you may have...

• Experience with product-search/indexing and technical SEO experience (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation).
• Deep knowledge of fleet management, vehicle health, advanced diagnostics, and prognostics.
• Strong familiarity with modern data stacks, distributed systems, and reliability concepts (SLOs, error budgets) using tools like Grafana, Datadog.
• Leadership skills bridging engineering, commercial teams, and developer users, with the analytical ability to align stakeholders on trade-offs.
• Large-scale agile and international launch experience, capable of handling localization, data residency, and support legal with privacy impact assessment.

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:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service