# Product & Program Definition Specialist

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,300-$166,200
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We are seeking a highly capable and versatile Product & Program Definition Specialist to operate just below leadership within the Lean Product Development (LPD) program.

The successful candidate will focus on hands-on execution, driving initiatives, and delivering key enablers by bridging technical and business understanding. This role is critical for the Ford+ Live PD initiative, moving beyond traditional consulting to direct delivery.

**Responsibilities**

- Drive Initiations & Integration: Lead and guide discussions, ask pertinent questions, and facilitate connections across teams, including the data team.

- Technical & Business Acumen: Understand and articulate concepts such as attribute groups, attribute values, how solutions manifest in business contexts, and their existence within APIs.

- Solution Development & Delivery: Focus on opportunity identification and delivering key enablers.

- Hands-on Execution: Perform content creation tasks and other fingers-to-keys work.

- Problem Structuring & Prioritization: Logically structure problems, identify important versus trivial tasks, and delegate effectively.

- Fueling the Hopper: Actively create more fuel for the hopper to burn by generating requirements and solutions.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

- Analytical & Critical Thinking: Demonstrated logical thinking, ability to structure the problem, and critical assessment skills.

- Data Proficiency: Strong understanding of data and its implications.

- Versatility & Drive: A jack of all trades who can get things done across various aspects of product development.

- Vision Alignment: Believes in the LPD program's vision.

- Experience: Relevant credentials as a subject matter expert, suitable for an analyst or consultant level role, capable of handling delegated tasks from leadership.

**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.

## Skills

### Required
- Lean Product Development
- Technical & Business Acumen
- Solution Development & Delivery
- Problem Structuring & Prioritization
- Data Proficiency

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