Senior Product Manager-Prototypes

Ford • Dearborn, MI

6d • $132,800 - $250,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be a strategic leader responsible for inspiring change, leading high-performing teams, and driving continuous improvement across our portfolio. The position is highly involved in transitioning the prototype portfolio from legacy applications into a modern integrated ecosystem. You will work closely with cross-functional partners spanning different levels and development teams to translate strategic roadmaps into tangible deliverables, ensuring efficient execution and alignment across all stakeholders. This role demands a blend of strategic thinking, agile leadership, and a deep understanding of both business and technical requirements to deliver high-quality, customer-centric software Products.

Requirements

• 8+ years of knowledge of software development
• Extensive Prototype domain knowledge
• Understanding of Agile methods & best practices
• Develop and manage the product roadmap with business Managers.
• Convert roadmap into features and prioritize the product backlog.
• Data-driven mindset for decision-making and prioritization
• Internal & external management skillset for managing cross-team capabilities
• Strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to teach others.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision-making.
• Ability to collaborate well with Data Engineers, software engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Ability to develop deep understanding of product functionality to provide high-level guidance to development teams
• Experience leading a global team from both technical and delivery perspectives.
• Takes ownership, operates with autonomy, and sees challenges as opportunities.
• Experience in documenting & tracking OKRs
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, or related field, Master’s preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Technical background in AI tools and cloud deployment/CI/CD technologies
• Vendor management experience
• SAP or 3DX experience

Responsibilities

• Management of family of products at all stages of the product lifecycle
• Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
• Work closely with Business Partners and Product Owners to understand their product vision and break that vision down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.
• Work with Product Designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
• Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, story maps, user stories).
• Work hands-on with the cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that meets requirements.
• Collaborate with the product team to define specs, requirements, and acceptance criteria for product capability and deliverables.
• Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and our focus on incrementally delivering value through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Guide the development, testing, delivery, and support of modern solutions utilizing contemporary tools such as cloud-based computing technologies (GCP, CaaS), JAVA, Angular, Spring Boot, GitHub, Tekton, Junit, jMETER, Gradle, Eclipse/IntelliJ, Docker/Kubernetes, SonarQube, FOSSA, Cycode, CI/CD pipelines, 42 Crunch, Quay, Hoppscotch, and Artificial Intelligence.
• Implement robust Agile development methodologies, including JIRA for Epic/Sub management, iteration planning, ceremonies, and retrospectives.
• Drive the adoption and implementation of modern development methods such as integrated use of GitHub CoPilot in IDE for development acceleration.
• Develop and implement strategic migration paths from legacy technologies to new, advanced platforms modernizing and simplifying the portfolio
• Guide and share a deep understanding of the core functionality of the prototype planning and management process
• Lead day to day management and development for a team of Ford and Agency members, including responsibilities for position posting, hiring, releasing, and fostering career growth. (approx. 10

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: Senior