Product Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Ford Pro is a new global business within Ford committed to commercial customer productivity. Ford Pro delivers a work-ready suite of vehicles, accessories, and services for virtually every vocation, backed by technology, and engineered for uptime. A true one-stop shop, offering a full portfolio of electrified and internal combustion vehicles designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ford Pro ecosystem, helping customers' businesses thrive today and into the new era of electrification.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will be instrumental in crafting the future of how we do business with the commercial customer at the center of everything we do.

Are you passionate about applying technology to solve business problems? Are you someone who doesn't just do exactly what you're told, but proactively seeks to understand and solve underlying pain points? Are you motivated to apply your skills to build the solutions that will increase the productivity of our commercial customers? This specific Product Manager role is a rare opportunity to work on a customer-facing, revenue-generating application. Are you up for the challenge? If so, then join our team as a Product Manager.

Ford Pro Technology is looking for Product Managers that embrace Lean, Agile, and Human Centered Design practices to deliver innovative software products. Product Managers work in small and cross-functional teams. The Product Manager collaborates directly and continuously with Software Engineers, Product Owners, and Designers to build, validate, and release software products early and often.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Have overall responsibility for envisioning, development, launch and ongoing management of a product or 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.
• Conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights towards strategizing product positioning.
• 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.
• Collaborate with Business Partners to develop Go-To-Market strategy and drive product launch.
• Help innovate and iterate on Agile PM processes and share our learnings.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering field or Masters in Business Admin
• 6+ years with progressive responsibilities in software development
• 2+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs
• 3+ years working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features.
• 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 software engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Takes ownership, operates with (and deserving of) autonomy, and sees challenges as opportunities.
• Has strong opinions, loosely held that are backed by data or logic.
• Previous success delivering a product to market with an Agile development team, and ongoing development and support of production applications.
• Curious about new technologies and exhibits a strong desire to learn.
• Practice in Lean/Lean Startup thinking, human-centered product development and Agile Software development
• Have exposure to lightweight product development methods such as user story mapping and/ or rapid prototyping
• Experience in documenting & tracking OKRs

Nice to Have:

Exposure to Jira, Workboard, Miro or equivalent tools.