# Data Product Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$192,900
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Global Data, Insight and Analytics (GDIA) team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional efforts within the Big Data ecosystem for analytics and AI.

The successful candidate will drive the execution of complex, cross-functional technical programs spanning multiple product teams and/or product lines.

### Responsibilities

- Lead Cross-Functional Execution: Drive complex technical programs and initiatives across multiple product teams, ensuring efficient delivery and achievement of defined outcomes and key results.

- Strategic Partnership with Product: Partner with Product Managers to translate high-level product strategy into detailed technical requirements.

- Engineering Collaboration: Collaborate with Engineering Managers to define technical delivery components and develop accurate effort estimates.

- Capacity & Scope Management: Work with Product Line Program Managers to ensure optimal resource allocation and capacity planning.

- Holistic Project Planning: Develop and manage comprehensive project delivery plans with clear milestones, timelines, and team responsibilities.

- Risk & Issue Mitigation: Implement project tracking mechanisms, monitor progress, and mitigate risks and issues.

- Facilitate & Unblock: Act as a central point for issue resolution and remove impediments to keep teams focused.

- Impact Analysis: Conduct analyses of project plans to identify potential cross-product or platform impacts.

- Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary liaison for project communications with external teams and stakeholders.

- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

- Executive Reporting: Prepare and deliver project status reports and presentations to senior leadership.

- Change Management: Own and manage the change control process for individual projects.

### Qualifications

- Basic Qualifications & Experience:

+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field;   + 5+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or a similar role;   + Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies;   + Experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) technology.

- Preferred Qualifications:

+ Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams;   + Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills;   + Identified technical dependencies or solution misalignment across multiple products;   + In-depth understanding of both business outcomes and technical solutions;   + Capable of discussing complex, ambiguous problems with senior architects, engineers, or other stakeholders;   + Demonstrated experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Rally);   + PMP, CSM, or other relevant certifications are a plus.

### 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;

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

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Project Management
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

### Nice to have
- Leadership
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Interpersonal Skills
- Project Management Tools (e.g., Jira, Rally)
- PMP
- CSM

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