Manager, Digital Product Strategy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Transform enterprise and Integrated Services priorities into a digital product strategy for Ford's retail ecosystem, enhancing intuitive experiences, vehicle interactions, and Ford Pro Intelligence.

• Assess product and roadmap proposals, providing recommendations on where to intensify, invest, maintain, or retract resources.

• Formulate recommendations on whether to build, buy, or partner, clearly outlining economic considerations, trade-offs, and dependencies.

• Monitor customer requirements, competitor activities, platform developments, and partner movements.

• Integrate vehicle, app, dealer, service, and Ford Pro journeys to inform product direction, packaging, partnerships, and investment choices.

• Align strategic pillars with proposed roadmaps while highlighting funding, engineering capacity, and cross-team dependencies.

• Collaborate with teams responsible for Digital Product metrics and performance reporting to evaluate initiatives and suggest modifications.

• Organize portfolio reviews and strategic assessments based on evidence, options, trade-offs, and explicit requests.

• Record decisions and responsible parties, assisting teams in executing those decisions effectively.

• Create evidence-based materials for Digital Product and Integrated Services leaders, executive forums, and Board discussions.

• Independently lead complex workstreams involving Product, Design, Engineering, Finance, Retail, Ford Pro, and service partners.

• Mentor problem-solving and executive storytelling within the strategy team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree is mandatory.

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Product Strategy, or a related discipline.

• Proven capability to manage complex analyses and provide recommendations to senior leaders.

• Proficiency in structuring ambiguous challenges, evaluating a portfolio of initiatives, testing assumptions, constructing business cases, and making clear recommendations and trade-offs.

• Outstanding writing and presentation abilities.

• Capacity to oversee multiple high-priority workstreams and deliver thorough work under tight deadlines.

• Skill in connecting customer requirements, product decisions, platform and delivery limitations, business outcomes, and enterprise priorities.

• Ability to build trust and align cross-functional leaders through sound judgment and a transparent view of evidence and risks.

• Willingness to work during EST hours.

• Experience with connected vehicle services, digital commerce, dealer and service journeys, commercial fleet products, or software platforms.

• Background in advising senior executives or leading cross-functional strategy efforts in a large, intricate organization.

• Familiarity with using established goals and metrics to guide portfolio priorities, learning, and clear cross-functional decisions.

• Competence in presenting arguments clearly through high-quality presentation design or straightforward concepting.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

• Paid parental leave.

• Programs to assist new parents with ramp-up.

• Subsidized backup childcare services.

• Family-building benefits, including reimbursement for adoption and surrogacy expenses and fertility treatments.

• Employee vehicle discount program for both employees and their family members.

• Management leases available.

• Tuition assistance provided.

• Active and established employee resource groups.

• Paid time off for individual and team community service initiatives.

• Generous vacation allowances.

• Sick and personal time off.

• Paid holidays, including a break between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.