Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform

Ford Motor • Palo Alto, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves? 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 their vehicles like never before with OTA (over-the-air)-driven experiences that grow better over time. 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. In this position... We are seeking a Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform who owns the product end-to-end and consistently ships high-quality, customer loved products. This is a hybrid position requiring an onsite schedule of 4 days a week Palo Alto, CA office or in the Dearborn, MI. This is not a remote position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Management Science, Information Management.
• 7 years in product management (e.g. API/data platform, SaaS) including > 3 years people leadership.
• Proficient with analytics and defining/monitoring KPIs.
• Working knowledge of privacy/security (GDPR/CCPA) and data governance.
• Excellent communication and influence in matrixed environments, customer-obsessed and outcomes-driven.

Nice To Haves

• B2B Growth PM experience with demonstrated success commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs.
• Experience with product-search/indexing and technical SEO experience (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation).
• expertise in scalable data ingestion and API lifecycle management (REST and event streaming), including gateways, versioning/deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer integration/debugging.
• Deep knowledge of fleet management, vehicle health, advanced diagnostics, and prognostics.
• Experience building and managing developer ecosystems (portals, sample code) at scale to improve developer experience.
• Strong familiarity with modern data stacks, distributed systems, and reliability concepts (SLOs, error budgets) using tools like Grafana, Datadog.
• Leadership skills bridging engineering, commercial teams, and developer users, with the analytical ability to align stakeholders on trade-offs.
• Large-scale agile and international launch experience, capable of handling localization, data residency, and support legal with privacy impact assessment.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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