Senior Product Manager, AI and Data

Job Description

Job DescriptionAs Ford Credit’s Senior Product Manager, AI & Data Strategy, you will be a key architect of an intelligence backbone that powers customer and risk decisions worldwide. Sitting at the intersection of fintech, automotive, and cutting-edge AI, you will convert petabytes of raw data into frictionless originations, hyper-personalized servicing, predictive collections, and real-time risk insights. You will operate as a full-stack product leader: shaping vision, evangelizing strategy, and rolling up your sleeves to ship production-grade solutions.

ResponsibilitiesWhat You Will Do. . . Strategy & Vision: Define a north-star vision for data and AI capabilities tied to clear OKRs.

Translate that vision into an outcome-driven roadmap of high-value datasets, streaming feature pipelines, and model services. Platform Architecture: Product-manage shared ML-Ops assets—including feature stores, model registries, vector DBs, and prompt-engineering toolkits—to accelerate engineering teams across the enterprise.

Responsible AI Leadership: Bake “Responsible AI” into every layer of the product, ensuring governance, fairness, explainability, security, and human-in-the-loop controls are paramount. Execution & Delivery: Lead end-to-end product discovery and agile delivery. You will define problems, write crisp requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and guide launches from MVP to global scale.

Performance Optimization: Own the success metrics, including data fidelity, model lift, latency, reliability, unit economics, and customer NPS. Design and run statistically rigorous experiments (A/B tests, causal inference) to optimize them. Influence & Mentorship: Mentor a cohort of associate PMs and influence senior leaders in Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Design to align on strategy.

QualificationsYou’ll have. .

. A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Business, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics a related field10+ years of end-to-end product leadership experience, specifically shipping large-scale data, ML, or AI platforms. Proven experience in lending, payments, or enterprise fintech is highly preferred.

Command of modern cloud and ML stacks, specifically Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Even better, you may have…Experience with GenAI/LLM stacks (LangChain, prompt orchestration, Vector Databases). Master’s in Business, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or an MBA paired with deep technical fluency.

A track record of running large-scale experiments, with comfort in uplift modeling and ROI modeling. What you’ll receive in return…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 coverageFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and moreFamily building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and moreVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leasesuition assistanceEstablished and active employee resource groupsPaid time off for individual and team community serviceA generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s DayPaid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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