Autonomous Mobility Product Manager

Autonomous Mobility Product Manager & Product Development Leader

Shape the Future of Manufacturing with ATP.

At Ford, we aren't just building vehicles — we are redefining how the world moves. Within the Advanced Industrial Technology and Platforms (ATP) organization, we are the architects of Ford's next industrial revolution.

Our mission is clear: we build and scale industrial platforms, technologies, and capabilities that unlock Ford Firsts to drive sustained competitive advantage in manufacturing. Driven by our vision to "build once, scale everywhere," we bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and global physical deployment.

Our guiding mantra is simple yet relentless:
Scale what matters, win what's next.

If you are a high-tech builder, thinker, or innovator who thrives at the intersection of software, hardware, and massive scale, ATP is where you belong. Join us, and write the next chapter of industrial history.

In this position...

Ford's ATP Forge team is building the future of advanced robotics and automation for industrial systems.

We are seeking an Autonomous Mobility Product Manager & Product Development Leader to own and grow the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Ford's Autonomous Mobility product family — spanning Automated Vehicle Marshalling (AVM), Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR), and Autonomous Mobile Monitoring (AMM).

This role sits at the intersection of product strategy and hands-on technical leadership: you will define what we build and why, lead a team that builds and integrates it, and drive it from pilot through scaled deployment across Ford manufacturing sites. This is a rare opportunity to build a product family from the ground up, own its P&L-style outcomes, and lead a growing team of engineers and technologists shaping the future of autonomous manufacturing at Ford.

What you'll do...

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-release roadmap for the Autonomous Mobility product family (AVM, AMR, AMM), balancing near-term plant wins with long-term platform scalability and architecture.
• Lead discovery with plant and operations partners to identify high-value use cases; define personas, workflows, constraints, and measurable outcomes across the product family.
• Own creation and quality of product requirements (PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria) spanning robotics behavior, integration, safety, and operational readiness.
• Manage the product development process using the Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) framework (MRL 0 to MRL 10), establishing clear gate criteria and evidence requirements at each stage to objectively assess technology and manufacturing maturity before advancing the product family from concept through full-rate deployment.
• Define and track product KPIs such as uptime/availability, MTTR, throughput/cycle-time impact, deployment lead time, safety incident reduction, and total cost of ownership.
• Create a forward path for platform evolution (e.g., vision-guided navigation, fleet orchestration across product lines) while ensuring near-term decisions don't block future capability.

Team & Technical Leadership

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for system design, integration, validation, and deployment of the Autonomous Mobility product family.
• Drive cross-functional execution with engineering: prioritize backlogs, define scope, manage tradeoffs, and deliver releases that perform reliably in real industrial environments.
• Provide technical leadership to assess technology capability, ensure delivery of system performance, and apply project management discipline to achieve program timing.
• Teach, coach, and mentor employees, peers, and leadership; document technical knowledge and establish engineering and product standards.
• Use MRL assessments to govern pilot-to-scale decisions, ensuring all Autonomous Mobility products only progress to broader plant rollout once risk, reliability, and production-process criteria are met; drive corrective action plans for programs that stall at a given MRL gate.
• Oversee delivery of tangible automation enablers that improve cost, quality, and efficiency across plant operations.
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