Product Manager- Vehicle Diagnostics
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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.
The Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) 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:
- 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.
Are you passionate about applying technology to solve business problems Are you motivated to apply your software skills to build the solutions that will support and increase productivity for our customers & dealers Our group has been tasked to develop scalable building block platform for FCSD. Does it sound exciting Then join our team as a Product Manager.
In this position...
The Ford Customer Service Division Tech group is looking for a Product Manager who embraces Lean Agile and Human Centered Design practices to deliver innovative software products. Product Managers will work in small and cross-functional teams. The Product Manager will collaborate directly and continuously with Software Engineers and Designers to build validate and release software products early and often.
This opportunity is in Dearborn MI and the team is normally onsite 2-4 days per week.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Maintain a balance between business viability user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with a team.
- Work closely with Business Partners to define a product vision and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team.
- Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize plan and deliver software that creates excellent user experiences.
- Collaborate with the product team to define specifications requirements and acceptance criteria for deliverables.
- Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
- Work with product designers to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
- Conduct product experiments user interviews and other validation techniques to gather feedback and product insights
- Create assets to guide product development work (Discovery Framing and Scoping documents opportunity trees user stories).
- Help partners understand our iterative development approach.
- Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods product management techniques and build skills.
- Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our learnings.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Systems Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
- 3 years of Product Management experience to include defining product vision strategy product roadmaps and building and managing backlogs
- 2 years of experience working with Agile software methodologies (Scrum eXtreme Programming Kanban) or similar.
- 4 years of progressive responsibilities in a software development/delivery environment
Even better you may have...
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Systems Engineering or related field
- Previous development experience preferably with Java Web React and similar technologies
- 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/Lean Startup 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
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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