# IT Product Manager **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $115,000-$192,900 **Category**: Product Management **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72716?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7bcf408c-a82 ## Description This role owns and leads the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for user-facing applications, with a strong emphasis on user experience (UX) design, functionality, cross product integrations, and the development of intuitive and engaging front-end solutions. The IT Product Manager will be responsible for: ## Responsibilities ### Product Strategy & Vision - Own and manage the Global Safety and Ergonomics Tool (GSET) Product map. - Own and manage the Global Medical Employee Data (GMED) Product map. - Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for front-end applications, ensuring alignment with broader organizational digital strategies. - Conduct comprehensive research, analysis, and industry trend analysis to identify opportunities and inform product decisions. - Develop business cases for new features, sagas, or epics, focusing on user desirability and business viability. ### User Experience (UX) Leadership - Sign off and approve UX design from supplier's Designer. - Own the end-to-end user experience of the product, managing the translation of business goals into user-centric designs. - Lead and support a dedicated Product Designer, providing design leadership, mentorship, and first-level review of visual (UI) and interactive (UX) designs. - Discover and frame user problems through stakeholder interviews, user interviews, concept testing, and usability testing. - Ideate, test, and iterate solutions through brainstorming and lean experiments, gathering direct user feedback on proposed designs and features. ### Privacy & Compliance - Leads and owns the Ford Privacy process for the health and safety PDO. - Oversee Ford Privacy set up, review and approval for global and regional privacy requirements. - Ensure DRIs are identified for regional and global reviewers/approvers. ### Technical Collaboration - Collaborate closely with software engineers/developers/architects and other integrated services/sources to discuss development feasibility and review visual/interaction designs. - Maintain an understanding of the technical architecture of the user interface and front-end applications. ### Product Development & Delivery (Front End) - CO-Define the Release Plan & Process. - Coordination, implementation, and management of Gemba sessions. - Ensure user stories and tasks are identified and provided to the Project Managers for Jira assignment. - Lead and support requirements gathering and refinement by working directly with end users, other ET application teams, and internal business partner teams. - Translate requirements into clear, concise, and testable sagas, epics, and user stories/tasks. - Signing off/approving on supplier written sagas, epics, user stories/tasks and test cases. - Champion Agile PDO methodology, actively participating in and contributing to agile ceremonies. - Prioritize deliverables and maintain a healthy product backlog in Jira, focusing on user-facing features and improvements. - Own the creation and management of agile ceremony meetings for sprint prioritization, release management, and release communications. - Collaborate with business partners, engineering and design teams to define MVPs and ensure technical feasibility and user desirability. - Lead and manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and ensure product readiness for release from a user perspective. - Participate in QA Testing that is lead by the Testing Engineer ### Stakeholder Management & Communication - Foster cross-functional collaboration with engineering, integration partners, design, and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on front-end product development. - Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and updates to stakeholders, managing expectations. - Sign off/approval of assigned project status meetings, SAR’s, recaps/summaries, follow ups, and next steps. ### Product Documentation & Measurement - Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for user-facing features. - Define, track, and report on OKRs/KPIs related to user engagement, usability, and front-end performance. - Engage with the business owners ensuring understanding of application and business OKRs/KPIs - Create and own user feedback mechanism(s) - Analyze user feedback and data to inform product decisions and identify areas for improvement. ## Qualifications ### Minimum / Required Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field. - 5+ years of product management experience managing digital, user-facing applications, front-end software solutions, or web/mobile platforms. - Demonstrated experience owning the product lifecycle end-to-end. - Understanding of UX/UI principles, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, user flows, and usability testing. - Experience partnering closely with Product Designers and guiding/approving visual and interaction designs. - Hands-on experience working in an Agile / Product Driven Organization (PDO) environment. - Proficiency in writing clear user stories, epics, sagas, and acceptance criteria. - Strong working knowledge of Jira or similar agile project and backlog management tools. - Experience handling sensitive data, regulatory compliance, or privacy frameworks for global applications. - Proven track record of managing agency/supplier teams, cross-functional engineering teams, and enterprise business stakeholders. ### Preferred Qualifications: - Background or familiarity with enterprise Occupational Health & Safety, or Medical/Employee Data systems - Understanding of modern front-end architectures, APIs, and cross-product integration patterns. - Experience conducting user research, stakeholder interviews, lean experiments, and on-site observational studies. - Experience defining, tracking, and optimizing Product KPIs and Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) related to user adoption, engagement, usability, performance and other telemetries. ## Benefits - 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 - 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. ## Skills ### Required - Product Management - UX/UI - Agile - Jira - Data Privacy - Stakeholder Management ### Nice to have - Occupational Health & Safety - Medical/Employee Data systems - Front-end architectures - APIs - User Research - Lean Experiments --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72716?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)