Lead Product Strategist

Ford • Dearborn, MI

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About The Position

Cross-Functional Product Leadership: Partner with Enterprise Architects and Business Owners to ensure the "Product Vision" for Industrial Systems is technically sound and cyber-secure. Outside-In Benchmarking: Bring a product-led perspective on how industry leaders are simplifying their industrial stacks to gain a competitive edge. Product Discovery & Ambiguity Synthesis: Ability to take vague business needs and a fragmented system landscape and synthesize them into a clear, prioritized product roadmap. Outcome-Based Roadmapping: Move beyond "project delivery" to define and track Value-Based Outcomes (e.g., reduction in system complexity, improved data interoperability across the ecosystem). Data-Driven Portfolio Rationalization: Conduct deep-dives into the current landscape using data (cost-to-serve, usage metrics, and technical debt) to build a rigorous case for application decommissioning or consolidation. Executive Storytelling: Prepare data-rich presentations that simplify complex technical landscapes for leadership, driving alignment on vision, strategy, modernization, roadmap operational updates, organizational accomplishments and difficult rationalization decisions. As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• Demonstrated experience applying product management principles (discovery, prioritization, and MVP thinking) to large-scale, complex technology portfolios
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to tell a story and justify strategic shifts
• Deep experience across at least two major industrial domains (e.g., PLM and Manufacturing, or Supply Chain and Quality) to understand the "connective tissue" of the ecosystem
• Proven ability to create structure where none exists and lead through influence in a highly matrixed, global environment
• A track record of successfully identifying and executing the decommissioning of legacy systems to fund modern growth

Responsibilities

• Partner with Enterprise Architects and Business Owners to ensure the "Product Vision" for Industrial Systems is technically sound and cyber-secure
• Bring a product-led perspective on how industry leaders are simplifying their industrial stacks to gain a competitive edge
• Take vague business needs and a fragmented system landscape and synthesize them into a clear, prioritized product roadmap
• Move beyond "project delivery" to define and track Value-Based Outcomes (e.g., reduction in system complexity, improved data interoperability across the ecosystem)
• Conduct deep-dives into the current landscape using data (cost-to-serve, usage metrics, and technical debt) to build a rigorous case for application decommissioning or consolidation
• Prepare data-rich presentations that simplify complex technical landscapes for leadership, driving alignment on vision, strategy, modernization, roadmap operational updates, organizational accomplishments and difficult rationalization decisions

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees