Group Product Manager

Ford • ,

1d • $132,800 - $250,800 • Remote

About The Position

The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position, you will oversee and partner with a portfolio of 5+ critical product teams. You will act as the driving force behind our value delivery, helping teams uncover and optimize their velocity, track critical KPIs, and continuously mature their operational processes. This is not a governance-only role; it is a highly collaborative, hands-on partnership. You will lead demand management and ROI tracking, enabling measurable improvements in resource utilization and data-driven decision-making across the portfolio. You will be responsible for improving cross-functional decision-making, enhancing our quarterly strategic planning processes, and boosting the visibility and alignment of IT investments with business priorities through modern, data-driven tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7+ years of progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading enterprise Agile initiatives, managing multi-team portfolios, and aligning cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience in demand management, ROI tracking, and optimizing resource utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams driving professional growth, cross-functional alignment, and the resolution of complex issues.
• Hands-on mastery of Azure DevOps (ADO) or equivalent enterprise Agile platforms for tracking velocity, capacity, and sprint metrics.
• Strong analytical literacy with the ability to turn raw delivery data into actionable portfolio-maturity plans.

Nice To Haves

• Experience enhancing quarterly strategic planning processes and utilizing data-driven tools to align IT investments with business priorities.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) certification.
• Experience in Fintech, lending, financial services, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience guiding distributed teams across multiple time zones (e.g., US, India, South America).
• A strategic thinker who thrives in high-pressure environments and is comfortable navigating organizational complexity to drive transformation.

Responsibilities

• Drive robust demand management processes and ROI tracking, enabling measurable improvements in resource utilization, capacity allocation, and strategic decision-making.
• Execute & enhance the quarterly strategic planning processes, boosting visibility and alignment of IT investments with business priorities through data-driven tools.
• Lead teams driving agile methodology growth, cross-functional alignment, and the resolution of complex, systemic issues across the portfolio.
• Improve cross-functional decision-making by creating and implementing consistent risk management and prioritization frameworks.
• Partner closely with several product teams to measure, analyze, and optimize value delivery, report out, road mapping, velocity, and KPI tracking.
• Establish or leverage structured intake processes and change control to ensure teams manage demand effectively and reliably deliver on their Program Increment (PI) commitments.
• Leverage enterprise Agile platforms (Jira/Confluence/Planview, etc) to manage backlogs, configure sprints, track metrics, and establish portfolio-level visibility.
• Translate delivery metrics, portfolio health, ROI, and risks into clear, data-driven narratives for product leadership and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong AI fluency by leveraging advanced AI tools and frameworks to generate actionable business insights, build dynamic dashboards, and design custom AI agents. Utilize agentic framing to enable predictive "what-if" scenario modeling and automate complex workflows.

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: Manager