Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ford is developing connected digital platforms and customer experiences that transform mobility and vehicle services. The Senior Product Manager, Privacy will lead customer research, define privacy-focused digital product experiences, set product strategy, and guide cross-functional teams in delivering customer-facing platforms.
Responsibilities
- Define the strategic vision for your product areas, including the product roadmap and launch/roll-out strategy
- Translate our customers’ needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge
- Engage closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to make decisions that balance timing, cost, features, and performance while staying true to the product strategy and vision
- Measure our success and improve our products using principled methods and metrics; conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather customer feedback and product insights
- Create artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, Strategy Documents) to guide product development work
- Find innovative ways to accelerate our development, reduce risk, and improve the overall product experience
- Seamlessly manage escalations across stakeholders and influence appropriately
Skills
- Bachelors or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 5+ years of Technical product work with privacy and trust experience
- 6+ years of product management experience in the technology industry
- Proven ability to effectively utilize Jira for agile project management, including sprint planning, issue tracking, and reporting
- Domain knowledge across integrated hardware/software products, autonomy, or consumer-facing digital products. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the building and scaling trust effort across platforms
- Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, and to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends; excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills
- A deep passion for your customers, their needs, and for building/shipping products to meet these needs
- Successful product launch experience in a matrix organization and demonstrated ability to manage multiple products in production and their backlogs
- Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization, including strong documentation skills
- Strong data analysis skills
- Familiarity with Agile Software Methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme, Programming, Kanban)
- Curiosity around new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business preferred
- 10+ years of full-time professional experience
- Embedded software expertise
- Experience using Figma for collaborative design workflows, including version control and feedback integration
Benefits
- 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 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
- This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location or remote for non-local candidates.
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