Product Owner

Ford Ford · Auto · Allen Park, MI +1 · Marketing & Sales

Product Owner for Ford's Integrated Services division, focusing on developing and managing digital customer and dealer experiences through hardware, software, and services integration. The role involves defining features, incorporating feedback, prioritizing roadmaps, and working with cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class scheduling and service experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Defining, grooming and development of features based on customer/dealer experience, competitive benchmarking, consumer trends and dealer feedback, etc.
  2. Collect and incorporate global customer and dealer feedback into platform capabilities and roadmap priority for retail and commercial businesses.
  3. Collect and incorporate stakeholder input from marketing, technical, privacy, legal, finance and accounting teams to ensure the proper capabilities and priorities are reflected on the roadmap.
  4. Work closely with your Operations, Architecture, and Integration teams to develop and prioritize business requirements across software platforms and applications needed to deliver customer/dealer value across the Ford value chain.
  5. Work with product managers to translate customer/dealer needs into a backlog of user stories for software engineers and accept these user stories as they are completed.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines / technologies / processes as a Product Manager, Program Manager, DevOps or similar discipline.
  • 3+ years of product ownership experience working in a fast-paced, environment where priorities shift on a regular basis.
  • 3+ years of experience working in a fast-paced agile environment using creative problem-solving skills to make decisions.
  • 3+ years experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
  • 3+ years experience in front-end customer experience products, managing a complex backlog with many stakeholders, managing product development within Jira, and end-to-end product delivery.

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree or MBA
  • Experience in applying Human Centered Design practices to customer experience design, product development and/or Software Development
  • Technical background with ability to quickly understand a specific domain and identify the trends and opportunities in that space.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, multi-task, and meet deadlines.
  • Firm grasp of capacity-based planning
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, capable of presenting senior leadership.
  • Excellent business judgment and demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically.
  • Self-starter who is customer obsessed, detail-oriented, and an enthusiastic team player.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to evolving priorities and requirements.

What the JD emphasized

  • product ownership experience
  • agile environment
  • roadmap strategy and definition
  • front-end customer experience products
  • managing a complex backlog with many stakeholders
  • end-to-end product delivery