Product Manager

- VISTA is a mission critical application that supports 150+ markets across European and IMG region. - Dealers use VISTA application to Create/Manage/Cancel and Track their orders - National sales company and regional admins to manage orders for the future - Retail customer ordering supported via E-comm - Dealers has the ability to search Ford owned, Dealer owned stocks using various services on this function In this position you will... - Design and deliver industry-leading products and services to maximize value for customers. - Provide techo-functional product leadership to the team + **Strategic Product & Technical Vision:** Own the end-to-end product lifecycle-from envisioning and framing to launch-while maintaining a constant balance between business viability, user desirability, and technical feasibility. + VISTA application suite is undergoing a massive technology modernization in alignment with the Global order fulfilment portfolio functions. Need to be able to drive that vison. + **Backlog Engineering & Scoping:** Translate high-level business visions into actionable, prioritized backlogs. Lead quarterly scoping sessions to break down complex roadmaps into manageable features, user stories, and technical acceptance criteria. + **Software Engineering Excellence:** Champion and lead "Software Engineering Excellence" practices, including the implementation of robust CI/CD processes, development methodologies, and the selection of modern technology stacks and tools. + Technical knowhow, + Exposure on Oracle and PLSQL, Java Modernization experience and Data base modernization + **User-Centric Validation:** Drive product discovery through experiments, user interviews, and data insights, ensuring that technical development is always rooted in validated user needs and iterative feedback. + **Architectural & Portfolio Alignment:** Collaborate with architects and other Product Line managers to reduce system complexity, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions that impact the broader portfolio. + **Overall Release Management:** Vista is a multi PDO team that delivers the solution together. In this role, you will lead the release management and maintain the release cadence in accordance with the S-ox compliance. + **Cross-Functional Delivery Leadership:** Work hands-on with cross-functional teams (Design, Engineering, and Business) to plan and deliver software that meets both functional requirements and platform foundation capabilities. + **Stakeholder Translation & Management:** Serve as the primary liaison for Business Partners, helping them navigate iterative development cycles and GTM (Go-To-Market) strategies while clearly communicating technical strategy and risks. + **Risk Mitigation & Impediment Removal:** Actively identify, communicate, and mitigate technical and functional risks. Proactively remove blockers to ensure the team maintains high velocity and product delivery remains on track. + **Product & Technical Health Assessment:** Continuously monitor the "overall health" of the product-including code quality, system performance, and user adoption-to prompt key decisions for continuous improvement. + **Mentorship & Process Innovation:** Foster a culture of continuous learning by mentoring team members in Agile/XP methods and product management techniques, while constantly iterating on processes to improve team efficiency. **Qualifications and Skills** + 10+ years of overall expereince + 5+ years of product management expertise with a solid foundation in agile software development. 5+ years of domain knowledge in Supply Chain, Order Management or Dealer Experience. + Certification relevant to product management and / or software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months. + Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros. + Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and experience in creating and managing product backlogs. + Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking. + Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations. + Demonstrated DevSecOps mindset, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product. + Excellent oral and written communication skills. + Experience in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support. + Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups. + Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions. + Strong understanding of Load/Performance testing and A/B testing methodologies. + Experience in service-oriented architecture and the development of APIs/Microservices. + Bachelor degree or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Good to have: + Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. + Familiarity with serverless computing and event-driven architecture. + Experience with Software Engineering tools and practices such as + Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform + Google Cloud Platform and Tekton CI/CD deployment pipeline automation. + Java programming and experience with databases such as Postgres SQL and MS SQL/Oracle. + Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support. + Understanding of network security principles and practices. + Familiarity with emerging technologies such as Large Language Models + Experience in the automotive industry or related technology fields.