Data Platform Product Manager

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for products in the Data Platform Engineering ensuring alignment with Fords broaderdata and analytics strategy.
• Lead user discovery and research across multiple personas (business associates plant engineers analysts developers) to ensure solutions address real pain points.
• Translate user needs into epics PRDs and evaluation benchmarks; prioritize features and enhancements using impact-driven frameworks.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of solutions enhancing data governance operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
• DefineKPIs and success metricsto measure adoption discoverability and quality.
• Lead the development of aData Catalogthat enables seamlesssearch discovery and governanceof enterprise-wide data assets.
• Developmetadata governance models ensuring metadata standardization data stewardship and AI-driven metadata automation.
• Partner with engineering data science and platform teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions across cloud and enterprise ecosystems.
• Communicate product strategy and progress to senior leadership and stakeholders influencing adoption and organizational alignment.
• Build and maintain success metrics around adoption accuracy usability and performance to guide continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
• 8 years of Product Management experience ideally with data analytics AI/ML or developer tools.
• Strong grasp of cloud technologies enterprise data platforms and modern analytics ecosystems. Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services for compute storage messaging and data solutions (e.g. Cloud Run Pub/Sub Cloud Storage and various data processing services)
• Experience setting KPIs and evaluation frameworks for AI/analytics products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to engage both executive and technical audiences.
• Experience working withbig data platforms (Snowflake Databricks Kafka)and API-based integrations.
• Demonstrated ability to work across cross-functional teams (engineering ML UX business stakeholders) to drive end-to-end delivery.
• Excellent skills in user research stakeholder engagement and storytelling with data.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in a relevant technical field. (Preferred not necessary)
• Proven success in AI/ML-enabled products with strong understanding of large language models (LLMs) NLP and conversational interfaces.
• Strong understanding and experience with data-centric architectures including data ingestion transformation storage and consumption patterns with an emphasis on data quality and integrity.
• Familiarity with distributed systems microservices architectures and event-driven patterns in a cloud environment.
• Experience with building and managing data pipelines data integration or enterprise system integration projects.

• Knowledge of monitoring logging and alerting best practices for production systems on GCP.

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 childcare 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.

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $99600-$192900.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

Domestic relocation 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.

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