Senior Product Manager, Privacy

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, United States +3 · PD Operations and Quality

Senior Product Manager for Ford's Integrated Services division, focusing on customer-facing digital platforms, specifically within the Account & Privacy team. This role involves defining product strategy, roadmaps, and requirements for features related to account management, privacy controls, and trust efforts, working closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams. The position requires a strong understanding of building and scaling trust across platforms and experience in technical product management with a focus on privacy and trust.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the strategic vision for your product areas, including the product roadmap and launch/roll-out strategy.
  2. Translate our customers’ needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge.
  3. Engage closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to make decisions that balance timing, cost, features, and performance while staying true to the product strategy and vision.
  4. Measure our success and improve our products using principled methods and metrics; conduct product experiments, user interviews and other validation techniques to gather customer feedback and product insights.
  5. Create artifacts (PRDs, PRFAQs, Strategy Documents) to guide product development work.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of Technical product work with privacy and trust experience
  • 6+ years of product management experience in the technology industry.
  • Proven ability to effectively utilize Jira for agile project management, including sprint planning, issue tracking, and reporting.
  • Domain knowledge across integrated hardware/software products, autonomy, or consumer-facing digital products.
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, and to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends; excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills.
  • A deep passion for your customers, their needs, and for building/shipping products to meet these needs.
  • Successful product launch experience in a matrix organization and demonstrated ability to manage multiple products in production and their backlogs.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to manage stakeholders across the organization, including strong documentation skills.
  • Strong data analysis skills.
  • Familiarity with Agile Software Methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme, Programming, Kanban).
  • Curiosity around new technologies and a strong desire for continued learning.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Nice to have

  • Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business preferred.
  • 10+ years of full-time professional experience.
  • Embedded software expertise.
  • Experience using Figma for collaborative design workflows, including version control and feedback integration.

What the JD emphasized

  • privacy and trust experience
  • building and scaling trust effort across platforms