At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

　　Ford Customer Service Division, within Ford, is committed to provide our customers the “Always On” experience and our mission is to get our customers back on the road, in the shortest possible time. FCSD Tech delivers world class software that our

　　Dealers use to Diagnose, Repair & Service our vehicles.

　　Customers use for a seamless Service experience.

　　Ford enterprise uses to run a highly Profitable, Critical and Complex Parts & Service business.

　　FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive Diagnostics, Repair & Service Capabilities for a full portfolio of Electrified, Hybrid and Internal combustion vehicles globally.

　　The Pricing & Distribution Product Line owns the products associated with Pricing of Vehicle Parts and Distribution of prices to downstream systems. The product line manager will work with individual product team managers to iteratively deliver functionality that optimizes for accurate pricing and price notifications.

　　Position responsibilities:

　　Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products across a product line.

　　Works collaboratively and closely with Business Partners, UX and engineering to define a product vision and break it down into a Product Strategy including a tangible roadmap for teams to schedule and build features for delivery.

　　Help Business Partners understand FCSD Tech’s iterative development approach with focus to deliver value rapidly to production through careful and deliberate prioritization with subsequent launches that build upon our learnings.

　　Drive Product Strategy and manage dependencies across different product lines through collaboration with their Product Group Leads and other Product Line Leaders

　　Conduct user research, product experiments, and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights in partnership with Product Designers

　　Translate research into simple intuitive solutions while handing complex information architecture.

　　Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery, Framing and Scoping documents, opportunity trees, user stories).

　　Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.

　　Work hands-on with the development teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences, desired business outcomes and shared ownership

　　Mentor and train other Product Managers to help them learn agile/XP methods, product management techniques and build skills.

　　Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes, share learnings, and actively participate in Product Management Community of Practice

　　Develop a strong understanding of Parts Pricing and Analysis ecosystem.

　　Lead modernization & delivery of the Pricing SaaS solution

　　Run & protect the products for Pricing & Distribution.

　　Minimum qualifications:

　　Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering field or Business Administration

　　2+ years of experience defining product vision, strategy, product roadmaps and building and managing multiple backlogs.

　　2+ years working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban, etc.)

　　5+ years with progressive responsibilities in software development

　　Preferred qualifications:

　　Experience in creating product roadmaps to serve various markets through a global lens.

　　Obsess about the customer and associated Personas.

　　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 engineers, designers, and business partners.

　　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 exhibit a strong desire to learn.

　　Practice in Lean 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 designing and leading development of cloud native software applications.

　　Understanding of Parts Pricing Analysis ecosystem within FCSD

　　Requisition ID : 22940