Manager, Digital Product Strategy

Ford • ,

2d • $115,500 - $218,100 • Remote

About The Position

As Manager, Digital Product Strategy at Ford, you will lead complex work connecting enterprise and Integrated Services priorities to Digital Product strategy, portfolio investments, and execution. Working with the Director of Digital Product Strategy and senior Digital Product leaders, you will bring Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, and business partners together around evidence-backed recommendations and compelling narratives.

The role shapes portfolio choices across Ford's retail ecosystem, vehicle and dealer experiences, and Ford Pro Intelligence. It assesses where to invest, sustain, or pull back; connects customer value with business outcomes and delivery realities; and helps leaders make consequential decisions and carry them through to execution. The position also develops recommendations on build, buy, and partner choices; monitors customer, competitor, platform, and partner developments; and connects journeys across vehicles, apps, dealers, and services.

You will use established objectives, measures, and performance reporting to assess strategic bets, surface evidence gaps and delivery dependencies, and inform portfolio reviews. You will prepare decision-ready materials for Digital Product and Integrated Services leaders, executive forums, and Board discussions, while independently leading cross-functional workstreams and coaching clear problem solving and executive storytelling. The role requires working EST time zone hours. The position is leadership level 6, with a stated salary range of $115,500–$218,100. Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 3 years of experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Product Strategy, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex analysis and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, assess a portfolio of bets, test assumptions, build business cases, and make explicit recommendations and trade-offs.
• Exceptional writing and presentation skills, including the ability to turn complex analysis into clear, persuasive, decision-ready stories.
• Ability to manage several high-priority workstreams and deliver rigorous work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to connect customer needs, product choices, platform and delivery constraints, business outcomes, and enterprise priorities.
• Ability to align cross-functional leaders through trust, sound judgment, and candid assessment of evidence and risks.
• Must be willing to work EST time zone hours.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Experience across connected vehicle services, digital commerce, dealer and service journeys, commercial fleet products, or software platforms.
• Experience advising senior executives or leading cross-functional strategy work in a large, complex organization.
• Experience using established goals and measures to inform portfolio priorities, learning, and cross-functional decisions.
• Ability to make arguments clear through high-quality presentation design or lightweight concepting.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise and Integrated Services priorities into Digital Product portfolio strategy across retail, vehicle, dealer, and Ford Pro experiences.
• Evaluate product and roadmap proposals for strategic fit, customer and business value, reach, confidence, timing, and delivery capacity; recommend where to invest, sustain, or pull back.
• Use customer and business measures to test portfolio choices and identify evidence gaps.
• Develop build, buy, and partner recommendations, making economics, trade-offs, dependencies, customer experience, and strategic control points explicit.
• Track customer needs, competitors, platform shifts, and partner activity; test strategic assumptions and identify threats and opportunities.
• Connect vehicle, app, dealer, service, and Ford Pro journeys, turning fragmented inputs into clear product, packaging, partnership, and investment choices.
• Connect strategic pillars to proposed roadmaps and established objectives and measures; surface funding, engineering-capacity, and cross-team dependencies.
• Partner with teams responsible for Digital Product metrics and reporting to assess initiatives, identify gaps, and recommend adjustments.
• Structure portfolio reviews and strategic deep dives around evidence, options, trade-offs, and clear asks; document decisions and owners and help carry decisions into execution.
• Develop evidence-backed materials for Digital Product and Integrated Services leaders, executive forums, and Board discussions.
• Lead complex cross-functional workstreams with Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Retail, Ford Pro, and service partners, building alignment without formal authority over their funding or capacity.
• Coach clear problem solving and executive storytelling and model rigor, ownership, practical follow-through, and a low-ego approach.

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: Manager