Director of Product Management, Receivables

Ford Motor Company

Director of Product Management for Receivables at Ford Credit overseeing payment processing, accounting, and compliance. Leading a team to modernize financial systems and enhance operational excellence.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $141,700 - $268,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Oversee the global roadmap for payment processing and customer statements, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and a seamless customer experience.
Lead the product execution for Accounting and Tax calculations. Ensure all systems meet requirements, Ford Global Accounting Standards, and internal audit controls.
Ensure all receivables products meet rigorous state, federal, and international regulatory requirements, as well as Credit Bureau reporting standards.
Establish operating rhythms and performance dashboards to track the health of projects monitoring KPIs, risks, and dependencies across the financial lifecycle.
Partner closely with the modernization team to ensure the Receivables roadmap is fully integrated with enterprise modernization efforts. Act as the bridge between current core operations and future-state platforms.
Ensure that the complex requirements of Payments, Tax, and Accounting are accurately represented and protected as the company migrates to new technologies.
Proactively identify opportunities to evolve legacy processes within the Receivables space, ensuring the team remains agile and ready to adopt new tools and frameworks delivered by the transformation team.
Oversee and manage the Receivables Core Product team, fostering a culture of “raising the bar” while ensuring continuous professional development.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership across Securitization, Finance, Engineering, Architecture and core operations.
Cultivate high-trust partnerships across Operations, Technology, and the Transformation Office to assure alignment and flawless execution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Leadership Experience: Current LL5 (Director) experience or external equivalent, with a proven track record of leading high-complexity, mission-critical organizations.
Master’s degree or combination of experience and education. MBA preferred.
5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, with a proven track record of success in delivering impactful complex platform products.
4+ years of experience with Jira
Deep expertise in AI tools, industry trends, competitive landscape in AI, and organizational strategies to enable AI adoption.
Deep expertise in data strategies to enable reusable data marts, connected customer journey analytics, and our data products.
Ability to secure executive buy-in, influence teams, and exceptional story-telling.
Expertise in technical platforms, APIs, cloud services, technical products.. Alternatively, have led engineering teams that built cloud services or custom software platform solutions, as a Product leader.
Be comfortable to collaboratively develop tech POVs; and hold architectural discussions using latest technology tools and services.
Be proficient with technology systems, system design, APIs, Non-functional requirements, data, big-data, data management and other architectural patterns. ML/AI experience preferred.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
Experience with platform products and growing adoption across an enterprise.
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with Software Development methodologies such as AgileSAFE methods and Scrum.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, fluid environment where priorities shift regularly.
Ability to break down complex tasks or requirements into simpler, more manageable tasks identifying clear pros, cons, issues, obstacles, and dependencies. Fosters an environment of constant delivery and ownership in their areas. Able to help get things shipped and team members prioritize work in their key focus areas.
Ability to deliver high-impact outcomes, make trade-offs and understand the importance of different work-streams, and thus effectively prioritize to deliver maximum business impact.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementAI toolsData strategiesAPIsCloud servicesSoftware Development methodologiesAgileScrumData managementMachine Learning

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationInterpersonal skillsPresentation skillsAnalytical skillsProblem-solvingCollaborationInfluencingStory-tellingAdaptability

Certifications

Master’s degreeMBA