Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Own the product end-to-end and consistently ship high-quality, customer loved products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development and delivery.
- Analyze market trends and customer feedback to define product vision and strategy.
- Manage product roadmaps, prioritize features, and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Lead product launches and work closely with marketing and sales teams to promote new features.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Management Science, Information Management.
- 7 years in product management (e.g. API/data platform, SaaS) including > 3 years people leadership.
- Proficient with analytics and defining/monitoring KPIs.
- Working knowledge of privacy/security (GDPR/CCPA) and data governance.
- Excellent communication and influence in matrixed environments, customer-obsessed and outcomes-driven.
- B2B Growth PM experience with demonstrated success commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs.
- Experience with product-search/indexing and technical SEO experience (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation).
- Expertise in scalable data ingestion and API lifecycle management (REST and event streaming), including gateways, versioning/deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer integration/debugging.
- Deep knowledge of fleet management, vehicle health, advanced diagnostics, and prognostics.
- Experience building and managing developer ecosystems (portals, sample code) at scale to improve developer experience.
- Strong familiarity with modern data stacks, distributed systems, and reliability concepts (SLOs, error budgets) using tools like Grafana, Datadog.
- Leadership skills bridging engineering, commercial teams, and developer users, with the analytical ability to align stakeholders on trade-offs.
- Large-scale agile and international launch experience, capable of handling localization, data residency, and support legal with privacy impact assessment.
Benefits
- 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 Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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Hard skills
product managementAPI managementdata platformSaaSanalyticsKPI monitoringtechnical SEOdata ingestionAPI lifecycle managementfleet management
Soft skills
communicationinfluencecustomer-obsessedoutcomes-drivenleadershipanalytical abilitycollaborationprioritizationalignmentcross-functional teamwork
Certifications
Bachelor's in Computer ScienceMaster's in Computer ScienceBachelor's in Management ScienceMaster's in Management ScienceBachelor's in Information ManagementMaster's in Information Management