Group Product Manager, Integrations Customization
Dearborn, MI - USA
Job Summary
Launched in 2023 Integrated Services creates and markets new customer experiences by integrating hardware software and services across Ford Blue Model e and Ford Pro. These products and services allow Fords retail and commercial customers to customize their vehicles like never before with OTA (over-the-air)-driven experiences that grow better over time. Ford is developing leadership at the forefront of connected digital platforms that will revolutionize every aspect of how vehicles function the way people interact with them and the value those vehicles provide.
In this position...
Ford is #1 in commercial vehicles in North America and the #1 brand in Europe. On this base of strength we have built a rapidly growing software and services business (Telematics SaaS Data/control APIs Fleet Management services Charging SaaS etc.) by first building a great product design and engineering team.
Demand for these services is accelerating and larger fleets are beginning to show interest and purchase these products. Larger fleets have different needs than smaller fleets and additionally they often need custom features an integration with an ERP system for instance or a custom report or data feed understanding and addressing these needs in a consultative manner during the sales process and supporting these fleets as they onboard and scale is critical to both the fleets (and Fords) success.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
Summary: Make Ford Pros SaaS offerings enterprise-ready by delivering custom integrations and features for our largest fleet customers and turning these features into reusable capabilities as part of a new extensibility platform
- Plug deeply into the sales process for Fords portfolio of software and services working with the sales team and large customers directly to understand their requirements and what requires custom development outside of the established roadmap
- Work with your engineering and design partners to build test and deploy the solutions required meeting the customers need but with an eye to reuse and ideally bringing the features to production deployment for more/all other customers.
- Build and manage the extensibility platform which will house third party software integration(s) going forward.
- Work with the account management team to ensure onboarding and ramp/adoption for these larger customers is smooth especially relating to the custom integrations and features created
- This role will also extend our platform in new directions including deeper into the vehicle. More context can be shared during the interview process
Qualifications
Youll have...
- 8 years as a product manager with a demonstrated track record of impact
- 3 years of people management including product managers with a track record of building strong teams and developing people
- Deep experience working directly with customers ideally in a consultative fashion
- Technical depth and experience working with APIs of various types authentication and full-stack applications. Must be comfortable having architecture conversations with engineers
- Ability to make tough principled prioritization and build/not decisions based on quantitative factors such as business value effort reuse etc.
- Have successfully gone 0 to 1 on a product/concept (could have been at a startup or big company)
- Demonstrated AI fluency: You use AI tools in your day-to-day workflows and can point to specific ways theyve changed how your team builds software and the impact of these changes.
- Comfortable moving beyond traditional PM boundaries for examples prototyping running your own analysis or making simple code changes
Even better you may have...
- Experience in a fleet-related space B2B sales or consulting
- Academic background in engineering hard sciences design or equivalent work experience
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor 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
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
Generous vacation time sick/personal time and paid holidays including between Christmas Eve and New Years Day
This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $141700-$268300.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.
Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role taking into consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not 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. 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 the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.
This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.
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