Ford Motor Company

Robotics Staff Product Manager

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Redford • Missouri • United States

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Salary

💰 $129,600 - $244,680 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Set the product strategy and multi-release roadmap for ATP robotics, balancing immediate operational wins with platform scalability and long-term architecture.
  • Lead discovery with plant and operations partners to identify high-value use cases; define personas, workflows, constraints, and measurable outcomes.
  • Own the creation and quality of product requirements (PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria), ensuring they span robotics behavior, integration, safety, and operational readiness.
  • Drive cross-functional execution with engineering: prioritize backlogs, define MVP scope, manage tradeoffs, and deliver releases that perform in real industrial environments.
  • Define and monitor product KPIs such as uptime/availability, MTTR, throughput and cycle-time impact, deployment lead time, safety incident reduction, and total cost of ownership.
  • Lead pilot-to-scale planning: site selection, rollout playbooks, training, support model, and post-deployment iteration based on telemetry and operator feedback.
  • Influence technical and business decisions across stakeholders—aligning on architecture choices, sourcing approaches, and operating model (support, monitoring, maintenance).
  • Partner with Purchasing and suppliers to evaluate solutions and shape vendor roadmaps; establish clear performance expectations and accountability mechanisms.
  • Create a forward path for platform evolution (e.g., vision-guided navigation) while ensuring today’s decisions don’t block tomorrow’s capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in product management and/or technical delivery for complex technical products (hardware/software/system + operational deployment).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and align cross-functional teams at scale, driving decisions and outcomes through influence.
  • Strong requirements and execution discipline: ability to translate ambiguous problems into crisp scope, measurable success criteria, and release plans.
  • Experience using data and operational feedback to prioritize, iterate, and improve product performance over time.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both executive stakeholders and engineering teams.
  • Experience delivering robotics systems in real-world deployments (e.g., AMRs/AGVs, robotics navigation, fleet management, autonomy behaviors, HMI/operator workflows, teleoperation, cobotics, etc.,).
  • Experience taking products from discovery to prototype to pilot to scaled rollout across multiple sites, including change management and operational readiness.
  • Familiarity with robotics platform concepts: localization/mapping, motion planning, safety behaviors, teleoperation, fleet orchestration, edge compute, and industrial networking/integration.
  • Strong understanding of reliability/serviceability practices (telemetry, failure modes, spares strategy, maintainability, support playbooks).
  • Experience with industrial safety processes and standards practices (risk assessments, safe operating procedures, change control).
  • Vendor/supplier management experience (RFx support, supplier scorecards, roadmap alignment, performance management).
  • MBA or Master’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, or a related field.
Benefits
  • 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 Year’s Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementtechnical deliveryrobotics systemsrequirements disciplinedata analysislocalizationmotion planningteleoperationfleet managementindustrial networking
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationinfluencecommunicationproblem-solvingexecution disciplinechange managementstakeholder engagementtrainingiteration
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAMaster's degree in engineeringMaster's degree in roboticsMaster's degree in computer science