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Product Manager, Advanced EV Digital Transformation

USA01
Full-time
On-site
Irvine, California, United States
Senior Product Manager
Description

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?  

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. 

As a Product Manager, you will continually grow and adapt your Program and Product Management subject-matter knowledge and technical expertise to provide solutions and guidance that will enable us to have a holistic view of the progress, risks, and dependencies across various Advanced EV (ADVEV) vehicle program milestones and teams. You will be working on a small, high-performing ADVEV Digital Transformation (ADT) team’s mission of unlocking product and engineering innovation with streamlined, automated, and collaborative solutions. This requires a high interaction and collaboration quotient to deliver fully integrated EV vehicle systems that achieve aspirational targets associated with cost, weight, and efficiency, and exceed operational tolerances required to provide the ambitious project scope. This environment is not for everyone but will enrich the best talent with the opportunity to perform some of the best work of their careers. 



Responsibilities

What you’ll do...

  • Mature our org’s Jira strategy, increasing adoption and consistency to provide a holistic view across our teams and vehicle build milestones.  
  • Capture, understand, and prioritize Jira requests.  
  • Work with our Jira Admins to represent the “customer’s voice” when developing some of the more complex projects, validating that our implementation is working as we intended.  
  • Maintain the overall governance of the ADVEV Jira instance, Jira products (e.g., Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management), Confluence spaces, and third-party apps, ensuring a streamlined, consistent approach (e.g., custom fields, workflows).  
  • Understand how teams are currently capturing, prioritizing, and tracking their work to then build a strategic plan that will help everyone move towards a clearer, more effective, and lightweight approach to enable teams to work more effectively with the use of improved Portfolio and Program Management applications (e.g., Jira, Confluence).  
  • Work across many teams and roles across the company, requiring the ability to quickly understand their goals, challenges, and perspectives to be able to help them succeed while connecting their work and dependencies across the ADVEV vehicle programs.  
  • Develop and maintain an overall framework and processes to be able to connect various teams (and their work) together across various vehicle programs and build milestones.  
  • Develop and manage the adoption of program data analytics toolsets and dashboards to monitor team progress and identify constraints and timing gaps.  
  • Collaborate with IT teams to prioritize, plan, and oversee the product development process.  
  • Act as a product evangelist, communicating the product vision and value proposition to both internal and external stakeholders.  
  • Monitor product performance, conduct regular evaluation, and make data-driven decisions to optimize product functionality and user experience.  
  • Review and understand requests for Jira integrations with other tools and systems to be able to prioritize and support funding requests.  
  • Engineer Jira and Confluence permissions to support access to maintain confidentiality of engineering requirements, diagrams, drawings, and other renderings necessary for team collaboration and program delivery.  
  • Develop processes, tools, and automations to efficiently monitor issue resolution, and identify opportunities for greater integration, velocity, and collaboration across functional teams.  
  • Manage administration, training, security groups, and data integration for ADVEV Digital Transformation such as Jira, Confluence, and various third-party add-ons. 


Qualifications

You'll have...

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.  
  • 5-7 years of product management experience with proven results in collaboration, and enterprise software, including In-depth knowledge of the Atlassian suite, specifically Jira, Confluence, and third-party apps.  
  • Demonstrated success in driving product development and managing full Atlassian suite product lifecycle.  
  • A learning mindset and curiosity.  
  • Comfortable defining and tracking key business and success metrics.  
  • Demonstrated experience defining the product vision, strategy, and delivering value that solves problems for enterprise customers.  
  • A strong instinct and methodology of prioritizing among opportunities, balancing the needs of our customers with those of our business, and clearly communicating the rationale behind your decisions.  
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audiences.  
  • An effective relationship builder and able to influence without authority.  
  • An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team.  
  • A system approach with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.  
  • Experience building a compelling vision to empower teams and inspire senior stakeholders.  
  • Customer-centric focus, enjoying working directly with design and engineering to ship delightful products.



Even better, you may have...

  • Data visualization and analytics (eg, Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau)  
  • Access Management (Microsoft Azure/Enta, Role-Based Access Control)
  • Sourcing, Contracts, Purchase Orders (POs) (eg, LightSource or other tools)
  • Cost tracking, reporting (eg, ProjectEx or similar) 

 

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply 

 

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 change maker, 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, and prescription drug coverage 
  • Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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. 

  

 

Visa sponsorship is available for this position. 

 

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660. 

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