Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform

Ford • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

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 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. For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP1 Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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
• B2B Growth Product Management experience with demonstrated success commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs
• Expertise in scalable data ingestion and API lifecycle management (REST and event streaming), including gateways, versioning/deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer integration/debugging
• Experience building and managing developer ecosystems (portals, sample code) at scale to improve developer experience
• Proficient with analytics and defining/monitoring KPIs
• Experience with product-search/indexing and technical SEO experience (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation)
• Deep knowledge of fleet management, vehicle health, advanced diagnostics, and prognostics
• 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
• Working knowledge of privacy/security (GDPR/CCPA) and data governance
• Excellent communication and influence in matrixed environments, customer-obsessed and outcomes-driven

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