Product Manager-sr. Specialist

Ford Ford · Auto · United States · PD Operations and Quality

Product Manager role focused on delivering actionable vehicle health insights from ML models for connected vehicles. The role bridges technical data analysis, ML models, and customer/business value, with a strong emphasis on accuracy, trustworthiness, and quality of insights. Responsibilities include defining the end-to-end lifecycle of insights, establishing validation methodologies, championing product quality, translating business needs to technical teams, and ensuring data privacy and legal compliance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define & Deliver High-Quality Insights
  2. Define "Truth" in a World of Imperfect Data
  3. Champion Uncompromising Quality
  4. Serve as the Bridge Between Worlds
  5. Champion Data Privacy & Legal Compliance

Skills

Required

  • technical product management
  • launching and scaling data-intensive or AI/ML-driven products
  • writing detailed product requirement documents (PRDs) for complex, data-heavy features
  • data analytics and data science principles
  • understanding how ML models are built, validated, and what can go wrong
  • data exploration and validation
  • SQL
  • define and manage a portfolio of product quality and business metrics

Nice to have

  • deep passion for or direct experience in the vehicle architecture, Telemetry and Fleet Management

What the JD emphasized

  • accuracy and trustworthiness of the insights delivered
  • rigorously measure and prove the accuracy of our models
  • ultimate authority on product quality
  • what makes an insight "ready for production"
  • strictly adhere to legal requirements
  • understand how they are built, validated, and what can go wrong
  • Precision/Recall but can explain the business impact of choosing one over the other

Other signals

  • delivering actionable vehicle health insights
  • transforming raw vehicle signals into intelligence
  • proactively enhances vehicle uptime, improves customer experience, and drives revenue opportunities