
Principal Product Manager – Core Data Systems
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Redford • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $138,240 - $261,720 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define the vision and roadmap for ATP’s core data systems products, aligned to business outcomes and platform scalability.
- Build and evolve data products such as:
- - Robotics telemetry and event datasets (health, faults, tasks, utilization)
- - Fleet and site performance datasets and metrics layers
- - Vision datasets (images/video) with metadata, labeling workflows, and training-ready packaging
- - APIs and curated datasets that enable analytics and ML teams to move faster
- - Contextualization of data from the shopfloor and analytics.
- Partner with engineering, data science, and operations to define requirements for data quality, latency, reliability, and cost—especially for high-volume image/video data.
- Drive standardization across systems and suppliers by defining schemas and data contracts that work across sites and robotics platforms.
- Establish a clear approach to data access and governance across OT and IT environments (security, privacy, retention, auditability).
- Measure adoption and impact—tracking product usage, data quality and availability, and operational outcomes enabled by your data products.
- Lead cross-functional alignment and decision-making across manufacturing/operations, engineering, cybersecurity, IT, and key partners—without needing formal people leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in product management and/or building data products at scale.
- Track record delivering data products or platform capabilities used by multiple teams (not one-off dashboards).
- Strong understanding of data product fundamentals: event data, batch vs streaming, data modeling, metadata/lineage, and data quality/observability.
- Ability to translate complex, ambiguous problems into clear priorities, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong communication and stakeholder leadership skills, including comfort working with both executives and technical teams.
- Even better, you may have...
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Experience with robotics, automation, or industrial telemetry data (uptime, MTTR, utilization, task success).
- Experience building products for vision/ML data (image/video pipelines, labeling workflows, dataset quality and versioning).
- Experience bridging OT and IT environments, including edge constraints and secure data movement.
- Familiarity with governance and security patterns (RBAC/ABAC, encryption, retention, audit controls) in enterprise settings.
- Experience enabling ML teams through well-designed data interfaces, training data practices, or MLOps-adjacent workflows.
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
data product managementdata modelingmetadata managementdata qualitydata observabilityevent databatch processingstreaming dataimage processingmachine learning
Soft Skills
communication skillsstakeholder leadershipproblem-solvingprioritizationcross-functional collaborationdecision-makingorganizational skillsadaptabilitystrategic thinkinganalytical skills
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeMBA