# Senior Product Manager Digital Product

**Company**: Ford Bank GmbH
**Location**: Köln, Nordrhein Westfalen
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Senior Product Manager for Germany Modernizations, you will lead the move of the products Ford Bank Germany runs on from legacy platforms onto modern, cloud-native foundations.

You will own core German products across leasing, vehicle asset management, and insurance. Your starting point is the operating lease and asset management products. These are systems the business runs on every day, so the work involves understanding how the business operates as much as it involves technology.

Your responsibilities:

- Translate complex legacy dependencies, business processes, and stakeholder requirements into a clear, high-level product roadmap.

- Own the roadmap and maintain a high-level, outcome-based product roadmap across legacy dependencies, leasing financial pipelines, and dealer insurance requirements.

- Research the business firsthand by observing and interviewing users and business stakeholders to understand how current processes, workarounds, and pain points really work.

- Structure the requirements by gathering, prioritizing, and elaborating requirements from fleet operations, the insurance department, accounting, and the dealer network.

- Deliver incrementally by breaking complex legacy capabilities into value-driven increments, without disruption to daily fleet operations or dealer insurance services.

- Work with engineering and design by leading and collaborating closely with software engineering, design, and architecture throughout discovery and delivery.

- Align stakeholders by coordinating internal and external stakeholders, including compliance, legal, and the external insurance partner.

- Build in compliance by ensuring European and German financial and insurance regulatory requirements are designed into the new platforms.

- Communicate transparently by keeping the business informed on priorities, progress, and decisions required.

- Drive agile execution by writing and prioritizing user stories in Jira and using Confluence, Airtable, and Miro to keep the roadmap fully transparent.

- Apply AI pragmatically by using AI tooling together with engineering for legacy code analysis and documentation, verified against the business.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years in product management or a comparable role in a software environment, with products serving internal business users and partners.

- Experience of at least one legacy replacement or platform modernization that reached production.

- Experience owning a product roadmap and setting priorities independently.

- Ability to work to a product strategy set at leadership level and turn it into an executable plan.

- Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to structure them into product logic.

- Experience with products involving financial mechanics such as invoicing, settlement, accounting postings, or asset depreciation.

- Experience working with development teams and interdisciplinary stakeholders.

- Regular, direct contact with users and business stakeholders as an established part of your way of working.

- Practical experience using generative AI tools in your own work.

- Structured, independent, and solution-oriented.

- Fluent German and good English skills (B2 or above).

Desirable criteria:

- Domain expertise in automotive finance, vehicle leasing, fleet management, or insurance operations, ideally alongside a third-party insurance provider.

- Agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban, or PSPO / CSPO certification.

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- legacy modernization
- roadmap ownership
- strategic translation
- business requirements
- financial product literacy
- cross-functional collaboration
- user contact
- AI in daily work
- German
- English

### Nice to have
- domain expertise in automotive finance
- agile methods
- PSPO / CSPO certification

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