# Technical Product Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Leadership Level 6
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Advanced Industrial Technology & Platforms (ATP) team is building scalable software-based vision products and platform capabilities to reimagine manufacturing across Ford. As a Product Manager, you will set product direction and drive delivery for solutions from discovery through pilot and scale,leading through influence across engineering, manufacturing, safety, quality, IT, cybersecurity, and suppliers.

**Responsibilities**

- Set the product strategy and multi-release roadmap, balancing immediate operational wins with platform scalability and long-term architecture.

- Lead discovery with plant and operations partners to identify high-value use cases; define personas, workflows, constraints, and measurable outcomes.

- Own the creation and quality of product requirements (PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria), ensuring they span operational requirements, safety, cybersecurity, and systems integration

- Drive cross-functional execution with engineering: prioritize backlogs, define MVP scope, manage tradeoffs, and deliver releases that perform in real industrial environments.

- Define and monitor product KPIs such as uptime/availability, precision/recall performance, deployment lead time, implementation time, value generation, and total cost of ownership.

- Lead pilot-to-scale planning: site selection, rollout playbooks, training, support model, and post-deployment iteration based on telemetry and operator feedback.

- Influence technical and business decisions across stakeholders,aligning on architecture choices, sourcing approaches, and operating model (support, monitoring, maintenance).

- Partner with Purchasing and suppliers to evaluate solutions and shape vendor roadmaps; establish clear performance expectations and accountability mechanisms.

- Create a forward path for platform evolution while ensuring today’s decisions don’t block tomorrow’s capabilities.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

- 8+ years of experience in product management and/or technical delivery for complex technical products (hardware/software/system + operational deployment).

- Demonstrated ability to lead and align cross-functional teams at scale, driving decisions and outcomes through influence.

- Strong requirements and execution discipline: ability to translate ambiguous problems into crisp scope, measurable success criteria, and release plans.

- Experience using data and operational feedback to prioritize, iterate, and improve product performance over time.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both executive stakeholders and engineering teams.

- Significant experience leading software development teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies

**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.

**Salary and Benefits**

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $129,600-244,680. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6

## Skills

### Required
- Product Management
- Technical Delivery
- Complex Technical Products
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- Software Development Teams
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Safety
- Quality
- IT
- Cybersecurity