Feature Strategy Lead

Fords Electric Vehicles Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the companys vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed entrepreneurial and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. Youll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively staying focused on only what matters and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What youll do...

As a Feature Strategy Lead you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our software-defined vehicles by translating customer needs and business objectives into actionable technology strategies and compelling feature roadmaps. Your work will directly impact which innovative capabilities make it into our vehicles ensuring they are delivered on the right platforms at the right time and with an optimal balance of cost and complexity.

This position actively drives alignment and decision-making across critical functions. You will lead discussions and generate strategic artifacts with Digital Product Marketing Customer Experience Vehicle Programs Engineering Research and the Technology Platform teams. Your primary focus will be on defining and architecting cross-vehicle technology capabilities and experience bundles ultimately owning the early-stage feature & technology roadmaps that deliver Fords winning enterprise strategy for specific feature domains.

Success in Feature Strategy requires strategic vision and foresight cross-functional influence & collaboration strong analytical and problem-solving skills technical acumen and systems thinking exceptional communication product-mindedness adaptability and a bias for action.

• Connect new experiences and strategy into the corporate portfolio prioritization process.

• Collaborate with the various portfolio managers to ensure customer specific needs are met.

• Collaborate with the Digital Product Team to bring to life the Digital technology strategy.

• Collaborate with the Platform team to ensure the right hardware capability is included and the right APIs are on the roadmap.

• Gather and analyze inputs regarding vehicle-specific demand and corporate strategic new demand process to support prioritization activities.

• Support the development of vehicle architectures and full tech stack to enable world class experiences.

• Contribute to team modernization and transformation initiative including adoption of JIRA to track full life-cycle of SW development process.

Youll have...

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Business or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

• 2 years of experience in digital focused systems including sensors actuators ECUs software

• 2 years with managing vehicle programs and the technology planning processes

• 2 years of experience managing features from conception to launch with the product delivering end-user experiences

• Demonstrated strong communication (oral and written) skills including the ability to articulate complex concepts to audiences of varying levels of technical understanding

Even better you may have...

• Project planning experience in JIRA or other Atlassian tools

• Systems engineering knowledge and capability

• Experience with in-vehicle architectures and their roadmaps constraints and complexity

• Ability to quickly synthesize information across a wide range of technical and business topics to inform strategic decisions

• Strong leadership skills ability to facilitate meetings and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across various organizational levels

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 of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

• Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments 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 grades 7-8.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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