Ford Motor Company is seeking an IT Product Manager Specialist to oversee the strategic planning, integration, discovery, and governance of a vast ecosystem of over 100 Ford products dedicated to capturing, storing, and retrieving customer information across diverse Ford experiences. The goal is to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people's lives.
Requirements
- Skilled at defining and prioritizing backlog work items.
- Experience with JIRA or similar Agile Tools.
- JIRA queries and reporting experience
- RDBMS experience writing basic queries.
- Familiarity with Hopscotch/Postman and/or SOAPUI, API
- Familiarity with HTML development
- Experience describing new functionality by writing clear, concise stories from the user perspective
Responsibilities
- Work with Product teams to set strategy, define the product roadmap, and convey that to development team while adhering to agile software principles, culture, best practices and techniques.
- Partners with Portfolio Owner/Product Line Owners to develop SSDA/Customer Analytics plans for future Development and process
- Ensure OKRs are translated into Epics/Sub Epics/Features across multiple teams, dependencies mapped out, and release plans coordinated.
- Facilitate Iteration/Scrum planning across the portfolio, driving the right priorities across the various Product groups/teams
- Measure each Product line/Product success in their transformation journey and suggest new improvements in the process
- Facilitate Product Demos for the Product lines and products
- Responsible for coordinating the team activities from a day-to-day assignment and delivery perspective to deliver effectively and drive for continuous improvement.
Other
- 5+ years of Product Manager experience.
- Bachelor of Science degree or diploma in Computer Science related field
- Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate sophisticated decision making.
- Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and Business Partners.
