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.

In this position…

We’re looking for a Digital Product Strategy leader to join the Product Strategy, CX team which has rich expertise in product, design, and research. This individual should be highly motivated, self-driven and hands-on. You will work seamlessly across multiple disciplines acting as an integral link between our cross-functional teams that execute on the vision we’ve created. From imagining innovative new shopping experiences to envisioning great ownership services, we work to inspire the product vision and then make it a reality.

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, Research, Business, Operations, Product & Analytics domains to ensure the desirability, feasibility, and viability of our product strategy.

• Align business and technical outcomes, helping to guide product prioritization, strategic planning, and execution of workstreams ensuring 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 strategy, value propositions, GTM plans and product documentation.

You’ll have…

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, technical field, or similar field study.

• 6 years of experience in product management, especially working closely with software engineering teams.

• 4-6 years of experience with Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking frameworks working alongside the product development process.

Even better, you may have…

• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills; able to use data to translate ambiguous problems into elegant solutions.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams to build and ship complex products.

• 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 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

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/LL6HTHD

This position is a leadership level 6.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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