Product Manager

Ford Motor Company


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Contract type: Full time
Job Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Creating the future of smart mobility requires the highly intelligent use of data, metrics, and analytics. That’s where you can make an impact as part of our Global Data Insight & Analytics team. We are the trusted advisers that enable Ford to clearly see business conditions, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision-makers can act in meaningful, positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based, timely decision-making.

Employees in these roles define, execute, and operationalize cross-functional software initiatives that deliver business, customer, or technical outcomes. They have broad-based skillsets and are equally capable of driving software architecture and customer experience-focused initiatives. They possess a high degree of organizational agility, partnering with key stakeholders from multiple disciplines to align resources in service of the desired outcomes. They leverage their deep software acumen to develop program strategies, functional and technical requirements, resourcing plans, and technical roadmaps. They are experts in execution and are accountable for operationalizing, monitoring, and improving the products and services needed to deliver on the initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with GDIA and other partners to understand their product vision, align on a feature roadmap, and break it down into an actionable backlog of user stories for the development team
  • Work hands-on with the development team and stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and deliver software and infrastructure that meets client requirements.
  • Help GDIA and other partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through careful and deliberate prioritization.
  • Work with design resources (internal and/or external) to ensure timely delivery of designs and assets to the development team.
  • Mentor and train other PMs to help them learn agile/XP methods and build skills.
  • Identify potential success stories and share with communications team.
  • Help innovate and iterate on agile PM processes and share our takeaways.


Qualifications

The minimum requirements we seek:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
  • 5+ years of Product Manager or related roles (Business Analyst, Solutions Architect, Project Manager, etc.) experience
  • 2+ years of experience with CA Agile Central (Jira or similar Agile Tools)
  • 3+ years of experience with Agile methodology


Our preferred requirements:

  • Background in design or software development
  • 3+ years of strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others
  • Experience with Test-Driven Development, Paired Programming
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate sophisticated decision making
  • Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners
  • Skilled at defining and prioritizing product features

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