# Technical Product Manager Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,400-$192,900
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Technical Product Manager Specialist role is part of the Order Fulfillment Product Group at Ford Motor Company. This group delivers capabilities from Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), distribution models, vehicle configuration services, scheduling for assembly plants, sales reporting, company vehicle management, and Global Trade Services.

The successful candidate will collaborate with multiple teams, projects, and support the Order Fulfillment strategic roadmap. Key responsibilities include:

- Evaluating existing Product Management and Jira practices across product lines and seeking improvement/standardization opportunities

- Supporting Product Group-wide PI Planning setup and cadence

- Developing PI Planning dashboards for teams to understand capacity as they plan

- Enhancing existing Product Group Jira Dashboards

- Owning and managing the Product Group Jira instance (quests and sagas)

- Supporting multi-year project initiatives such as SOS by driving best-in-class Product Management practices

- Leading aggregation and automation of BPR metrics (SDLC, Jira Health, QOS) for the Product Group

- Exploring automation opportunities in finance and forecasting processes

- Evaluating new Product Management practices and tools for the Product Group

- Acting as a backup for all Product Group Integration forums: PGIT, OF Sync, PM Community of Practice (CoP)

- Advancing own progression on the learning path

- Fostering a safe environment for experimentation and continuous learning

- Using metrics as a tool to shape and align work, anticipate demand, open conversations, and learn

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

- 5+ years of product management expertise with a solid foundation in agile software development

- Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and experience in creating and managing product backlogs

- Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations

- Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups

- Experience using AI tools such as CoPilot, OpenCode, or FordLLM

- Experience using Jira

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

The salary range for this position is $85,400-$192,900.

## Skills

### Required
- Product Management
- Agile Software Development
- Jira
- AI tools
- Cross-functional Teams

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Computer Science
- DevSecOps mindset
- Service-oriented architecture
- Serverless computing
- Event-driven architecture
- Automotive industry experience

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