Senior Data Product Manager
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We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford were all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves
Enterprise Technologyplays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples lives this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position
We are looking for a Senior Data Product Manager Data Discovery for strategy development and execution of metadata-related products. In this role you will drive innovation and ensure seamless data discoverability governance and quality by overseeing a suite of metadata products including Data Catalog Data Lineage Data Classification and Metadata Management.
You will work across teams to integrate metadata solutions with data access data quality security governance and analytics products ensuring Fords data assets are trustworthy compliant and AI-ready. Your work will empower teams across Ford to make data-driven decisions that shape the future of mobility.
Responsibilities
What Youll Do
Metadata Product Strategy
- Define and execute the metadata management vision and roadmap ensuring alignment with Fords broader data and analytics strategy.
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement of metadata solutions enhancing data governance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
- Define KPIs and success metrics to measure metadata adoption discoverability and quality.
Build and Scale Metadata Products
- Lead the development of a Data Catalog that enables seamless search discovery and governance of enterprise-wide data assets.
- Oversee Data Lineage capabilities to track data movement and transformation across Fords diverse ecosystem.
- Implement Data Classification frameworks to categorize and tag datasets based on sensitivity usage and compliance requirements.
- Develop metadata governance models ensuring metadata standardization data stewardship and AI-driven metadata automation.
Integrate Metadata with Key Data Functions
- Ensure seamless integration of metadata products with Data Access Data Quality Security and Governance solutions.
- Work closely with engineering teams to build metadata ingestion pipelines APIs and automation workflows.
- Partner with Data Governance Risk and Compliance teams to ensure metadata policies align with industry standards (e.g. GDPR DPDPA CCPA).
Drive Operational Excellence and Innovation
- Implement best practices for metadata lifecycle management ensuring Fords data assets are AI-ready and discoverable.
- Optimize metadata retrieval scalability and performance to support large-scale distributed data environments.
- Enable self-service metadata discovery for data analysts engineers and business users.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Systems or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
- 7 years of experience working in Product Management Product Owner or very similar roles
- 4 years of experience in data product management metadata management or data governance with skills including but not limited to the following:
- Experience managing Data Catalog Data Lineage Metadata Management or Data Classification products.
- Strong knowledge of metadata standards (OpenMetadata Apache Atlas Collibra Alation Atlan Amundsen) and data governance frameworks.
- Experience working with big data platforms (Snowflake Databricks Kafka Presto) and API-based integrations.
Even better you may have...
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Systems or related field
- Data platform data center experience
- Experience working as a Data Analyst/ Engineer prior to moving into Product Manager roles
- Familiarity with data access controls security and privacy regulations (GDPR DPDPA CCPA HIPAA).
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to align business engineering and governance teams.
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 the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
- Immediate medical dental and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up childcare 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
- A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For more information on salary and benefits click here:
position is a range of salary grades6-8.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Employment Type
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