Product Manager - FCSD Tech

FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive Diagnostics, Repair & Service Capabilities for a full portfolio of Electrified, Hybrid and Internal combustion vehicles globally. 

Are you passionate about applying technology to solve business problems? Are you motivated to apply your software skills to build the solutions that will support and increase productivity for our customers & dealers? Our group has been tasked to develop scalable building block platform for FCSD. Does it sound exciting? Then, join our team as a Product Manager. 

FCSD Tech group is looking for Product Managers that embrace Lean, Agile and Human Centered Design practices to deliver innovative software products. Product Managers will work in small and cross-functional teams. The Product Manager will collaborate directly and continuously with Software Engineers and Designers to build, validate and release software products early and often.

Join our team as we create tomorrow, together! We believe in putting people first, working together, and facing challenges head-on, because we are Built Ford Tough. We are one team striving to make people’s lives better while creating value, delivering excellence and ultimately going for the win.

Position responsibilities:

• Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
• Work closely with Business Partners to define a product vision and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.
• Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences.
• Collaborate with the product team to define specifications, requirements, and acceptance criteria for deliverables.
• Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
• Conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights
• Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, opportunity trees, user stories).
• Help partners understand our iterative development approach.
• Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods, product management techniques and build skills.
• Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our learnings.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering field, Business 
• 3+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs
• 2+ years working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban)
• 4+ years with progressive responsibilities in software development

Preferred qualifications:

• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.
• Curious about new technologies and exhibit a strong desire to learn.
• Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development
• Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

• Tuition assistance

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