Digital Product PMO Analyst

Drive the future of Digital Product! As a Digital Product PMO Analyst at Ford, you’ll be the operational engine delivering our high priority commitments across multiple product pillars. In this high-visibility role, you will champion the Unified Backlog, tackle whitespace problems, and bridge strategy with execution. Bring your entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, and dynamic problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity and drive impactful change.

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 allow Ford's retail and commercial customers to customize and update their vehicles like never before with OTA (over-the-air)-driven experiences. Ford is developing leadership at the forefront of connected, digital platforms that will revolutionize every aspect of how vehicles function, the way people interact with them, and the value those vehicles provide.

What You'll Do

You will be a driving force in the delivery and governance of Digital Product’s 2026 High Integrity Commitments (HICs), serving as the operational engine that ensures we meet critical LL1 objectives. In this high-visibility role, you will tackle whitespace problems and drive execution across multiple Product Pillars. You will champion the Unified Backlog process by leading prioritization and fostering a culture of continuous improvement in our workflows and tooling. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution, you will provide the necessary rigor and risk management to ensure the organization’s most important goals remain on track for delivery.

Program Management & Unified Backlog Best Practices

• Facilitate adherence to project management methodologies, standards, and procedures to ensure consistent project delivery in support of Integrated Services’ goals

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify project requirements, scope, and objectives

• Champion the Unified Backlog process within Digital Product, act as the voice of Digital Product to drive continuous improvement in Unified Backlog processes and tooling

• Lead prioritization and scheduling of Unified Backlog Digital Product items to ensure on time approvals in adherence with critical cut-off dates

High Integrity Commitment Management

• Support delivery of Digital Product’s 2026 top priorities (High Integrity Commitments) across multiple Product Pillars

• Support engineering containability and commitment confirmation for all 2027 HICs

• Support HIC governance/tooling build out and ongoing management for bi-weekly executive leadership reporting

Communication and Stakeholder Management

• Support the development streamlined organizational communication and feedback channels, as part of healthy organizational change management; ensure transparency, awareness, knowledge, adoption, and recognition

• Increase consistency and efficacy across teams, aligning to workforce strategy and business priorities

Risk Management

• Exhibit strategic thinking capabilities and dynamic problem-solving skills

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide critical issue management, articulate risks, trade-offs and recommended prioritization based on a balance of business needs, constraints, and customer impact

Metrics and KPIs

• Track progress of priorities from new demand through engineering completion

• Support the adoption of agile collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) to establish broader transparency and prioritization of work, in partnership with cross-functional teams

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance project delivery and efficiency

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the PMO team

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree

• 4+ years of professional experience, particularly in an enterprise software development or startup organization

• Experience with supporting complex, cross-functional projects, including how to manage complexities such as disparate roadmaps, dependencies, and other such constraints.

• Well-versed in using dashboards to track project performance

• Entrepreneurial spirit, persistence, and resilience; methodical thinker with an ability to thrive on and drive change while navigating ambiguity

• Ability to think critically and apply a design/systems thinking approach toward operationally efficient work

• Experience with process documentation and training

• Passion for self-growth and desire to learn new skills and gain knowledge

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree in Business or Engineering preferred

• 2+ years of Product Management / Product Ownership of embedded hardware or software development

• Familiarity with Jira

• Experience with in-vehicle architectures and their roadmaps, constraints and complexities

• Ability to communicate effectively

• Ability to influence without authority

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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. 

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200. 

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location or remote for non-local candidates. #LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote

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