Manager, Product Strategy

Manager, Product Strategy 

 

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? 

Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What you'll do...

Work alongside Model e leadership and your team to establish a transformative vision and be relentless in delivering products, services, and experiences that our customers can’t live without. 

• Define the product portfolio strategy that will allow your business domain to win against the competition in market now and in the future. 
• Maintain a deeply user-centered focus throughout the process from early stages of research and design to understand the needs of our EV customers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Design, Engineering, Business, Operations & Analytics domains to ensure the desirability, feasibility, and viability of our product strategy. 
• Guide prioritization, strategic planning, and execution of workstreams and ensure alignment across functions. 
• Make data-driven decisions through rapid iteration, experiments in market, and learning through feedback from real customers. 
• Communicate highly complex concepts and plans to a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders, and evangelize the product strategy to executive leadership
• Build strong relationships across a variety of functions to establish trust, make decisions, and drive action
• Deliver clearly articulated product vision, value propositions, go-to-market plans and product requirement documents as needed. 

You'll have... 

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, technical field, or combination of education and equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in product management, especially working closely with software engineering teams
• 3+ experience leading cross-functional teams to build complex products

Even better, you may have...

• Master's degree in a technical or engineering field or MBA or equivalent practical experience
• Experience building service-based product ecosystems e.g. Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Applications, Transportation as a Service, or Autonomous Vehicles
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, establishing goals and crafting a plan in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Experience with Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking principles in the product development process
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills; able to use data to translate ambiguous problems into elegant solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to engage effectively at all levels from executive leadership to customers, across geographies and cultures
• Grit, determination, and resiliency to challenge the status quo, and motivate team members and leadership to break through compromises and make bold decisions

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 child care 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
• A gene