Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world – together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Launched in 2023, Integrated Services creates and markets new customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services across Ford Blue, Model e and Ford Pro. These products and services enable Ford’s retail and commercial customers to customize their vehicles like never before with OTA‑driven experiences that grow better over time.

We are seeking a Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform who owns the product end‑to‑end and consistently ships high‑quality, customer‑loved products.

This is a hybrid position requiring an onsite schedule of 4 days a week at the Palo Alto, CA office or in Dearborn, MI. Remote work is not available.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Management Science, or Information Management.

• 7 years in product management (e.g., API/data platform, SaaS) including 3+ years people leadership.

• B2B Growth Product Management experience with a record of commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs.

• Expertise in scalable data ingestion and API lifecycle management (REST and event streaming), including gateways, versioning/deprecation, backward compatibility, and developer integration/debugging.

• Experience building and managing developer ecosystems (portals, sample code) at scale to improve developer experience.

• Proficiency 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.

• Experience with product‑search/indexing and technical SEO (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation).

• Deep knowledge of fleet management, vehicle health, advanced diagnostics, and prognostics.

• Strong familiarity with modern data stacks, distributed systems, and reliability concepts (SLOs, error budgets) using tools like Grafana and 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, including localization, data residency, and privacy impact assessment.

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, and subsidized back‑up childcare.

• 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.

• Option to purchase additional vacation time.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1‑888‑336‑0660.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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