Group Product Manager, Privacy

Ford Motor Company • Fort Lauderdale, FL

2d • $115,500 - $268,300 • Remote

About The Position

Ford’s Integrated Services organization creates customer experiences by integrating hardware, software, and services across Ford Blue, Model e, and Ford Pro. The Digital Product team builds customer-facing platforms supporting Ford’s digital services. In the Privacy domain, the team helps customers manage their accounts, understand and control how their data is used, and access privacy features, building trust across the digital-service experience.

The Group Product Manager leads a small product team solving core customer problems and championing solutions that elevate the customer experience. The role defines the vision, strategy, and roadmap for customer-facing privacy products and capabilities across digital services and connected experiences. It translates customer and business needs related to privacy, trust, transparency, and control into prioritized product opportunities, requirements, and outcomes.

The position partners with Privacy, Legal, Security, Engineering, Design, Data, and other teams to incorporate privacy-by-design principles and deliver clear, consistent, usable, and scalable privacy experiences. The manager guides products through discovery, development, launch, measurement, and ongoing improvement; leads cross-functional alignment and decision-making; and uses customer research and analytics to assess product effectiveness.

The position is remote unless the selected candidate lives within 50 miles of Dearborn, Michigan, in which case a hybrid schedule requiring four days per week onsite applies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 10 or more years of product management experience delivering customer-facing digital or software products.
• 5 or more years of experience leading, mentoring, or influencing product team members.
• Demonstrated ability to set product strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and translate customer and business needs into product requirements.
• Experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Design, and other functions to deliver products in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience delivering products where privacy, data use, security, identity, consent, or customer trust was a meaningful product consideration.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex topics and trade-offs clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to use customer research, product analytics, or other evidence to guide decisions and measure outcomes.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive products from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Experience bringing embedded and cloud software products to life using tools such as Figma and Jira.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility verification is required at hire.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree.
• Experience working in the automotive industry.
• A forward-thinking approach to technology.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy, and roadmap for customer-facing privacy products and capabilities across digital services and connected experiences.
• Identify customer and business needs related to privacy, trust, transparency, and control, and turn them into product opportunities and prioritized outcomes.
• Develop product requirements, user stories, and success measures for privacy settings, consent and preference management, data transparency, and account-level controls.
• Prioritize the roadmap by balancing customer value, business objectives, technical feasibility, privacy risk, and regulatory or policy considerations.
• Partner with Privacy, Legal, Security, Engineering, Design, and Data teams to incorporate privacy-by-design principles throughout product discovery, development, launch, and iteration.
• Make complex privacy concepts understandable and actionable through clear customer experiences, communications, and controls.
• Use research, customer feedback, and journey mapping to identify friction and improve how customers understand and manage privacy choices.
• Help ensure privacy experiences are consistent across relevant Ford apps, websites, accounts, and connected services.
• Lead and develop a small product team by setting priorities, clarifying ownership, and supporting strong product decisions and execution.
• Build alignment across business and technical stakeholders, communicate trade-offs, and drive decisions in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Coordinate with partner teams to align privacy product roadmaps with digital-service strategies, platform capabilities, and launch plans.
• Represent the customer and product perspective in discussions involving privacy requirements, data use, and service design.
• Guide products from discovery and definition through development, launch, measurement, and ongoing improvement.
• Work with engineering and design partners to deliver usable, reliable, and scalable privacy experiences.
• Monitor product performance and customer feedback; identify opportunities to improve adoption, comprehension, trust, and task completion.
• Manage product backlogs, releases, and dependencies, adapting plans as customer needs, technology, and requirements evolve.
• Define and track product outcomes and key performance indicators, using research and analytics to assess privacy experiences.
• Use evidence to make prioritization decisions and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

What This Job Offers

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