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Ford Motor Company · 10 hours ago

Senior Growth Product Manager, API Platform

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Ford Motor Company is a global leader in automotive innovation, and they are seeking a Senior Growth Product Manager for their API Platform. The role involves owning the product end-to-end and delivering high-quality products that enhance customer experiences through integrated services.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own the product end-to-end and consistently ship high-quality, customer loved products

Qualification

Product ManagementAPI Lifecycle ManagementData GovernanceB2B Growth PMDeveloper EcosystemsTechnical SEOCustomer-ObsessedCommunicationLeadership Skills

Required

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Management Science, Information Management

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

Proficient 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

Preferred

B2B Growth PM experience with demonstrated success commercializing and scaling enterprise integration APIs

Experience with product-search/indexing and technical SEO experience (crawlability, structured data, web performance, faceted navigation)

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

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

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

Strong familiarity with modern data stacks, distributed systems, and reliability concepts (SLOs, error budgets) using tools like Grafana, 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, capable of handling localization, data residency, and support legal with privacy impact assessment