Ford Motor Company

Principal Product Manager – Core Data Systems

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: RedfordMissouriUnited States

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Salary

💰 $138,240 - $261,720 per year

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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