Digital Product PMO Analyst

Ford

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Drive the future of Digital Product! As a Digital Product PMO Analyst at Ford, you’ll be the operational engine delivering our high priority commitments across multiple product pillars. In this high-visibility role, you will champion the Unified Backlog, tackle whitespace problems, and bridge strategy with execution. Bring your entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, and dynamic problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity and drive impactful change.
Launched in 2023, Integrated Services creates and markets new customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services across Ford Blue, Model e and Ford Pro. These products and services allow Ford's retail and commercial customers to customize and update their vehicles like never before with OTA (over-the-air)-driven experiences. Ford is developing leadership at the forefront of connected, digital platforms that will revolutionize every aspect of how vehicles function, the way people interact with them, and the value those vehicles provide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of professional experience, particularly in an enterprise software development or startup organization
• Experience with supporting complex, cross-functional projects, including how to manage complexities such as disparate roadmaps, dependencies, and other such constraints.
• Well-versed in using dashboards to track project performance
• Entrepreneurial spirit, persistence, and resilience; methodical thinker with an ability to thrive on and drive change while navigating ambiguity
• Ability to think critically and apply a design/systems thinking approach toward operationally efficient work
• Experience with process documentation and training
• Passion for self-growth and desire to learn new skills and gain knowledge

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Business or Engineering preferred
• 2+ years of Product Management / Product Ownership of embedded hardware or software development
• Familiarity with Jira
• Experience with in-vehicle architectures and their roadmaps, constraints and complexities
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to influence without authority

Responsibilities

• Facilitate adherence to project management methodologies, standards, and procedures to ensure consistent project delivery in support of Integrated Services’ goals
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify project requirements, scope, and objectives
• Champion the Unified Backlog process within Digital Product, act as the voice of Digital Product to drive continuous improvement in Unified Backlog processes and tooling
• Lead prioritization and scheduling of Unified Backlog Digital Product items to ensure on time approvals in adherence with critical cut-off dates
• Support delivery of Digital Product’s 2026 top priorities (High Integrity Commitments) across multiple Product Pillars
• Support engineering containability and commitment confirmation for all 2027 HICs
• Support HIC governance/tooling build out and ongoing management for bi-weekly executive leadership reporting
• Support the development streamlined organizational communication and feedback channels, as part of healthy organizational change management; ensure transparency, awareness, knowledge, adoption, and recognition
• Increase consistency and efficacy across teams, aligning to workforce strategy and business priorities
• Exhibit strategic thinking capabilities and dynamic problem-solving skills
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide critical issue management, articulate risks, trade-offs and recommended prioritization based on a balance of business needs, constraints, and customer impact
• Track progress of priorities from new demand through engineering completion
• Support the adoption of agile collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) to establish broader transparency and prioritization of work, in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance project delivery and efficiency
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the PMO team

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level