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Wherever you work and whatever role you fill, when you represent the Bridgestone name you know that you are a valued teammate who is part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality.” We start by offering each teammate more than just a salary. We provide formal training, competitive performance incentives, paid vacation and holidays, healthcare packages for full-time and part-time employees, and a 401k plan to help build your future.

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Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and is the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone Americas and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Project & Program Management

Provides product ownership for Bridgestone’s enterprise digital enablement APIs and supporting platforms. Leads alignment of related capabilities and adoption across business units, borders, and partners as a crucial link and between marketing and other functions, particularly IT.

** This position has the option to be a remote opportunity **

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manages Bridgestone’s portfolio of enterprise digital enablement APIs, the Bridgestone Developer Garage, and Bridgestone Location portal to ensure value, utility, stability, performance, efficiency, and strategic enterprise benefit
• Establishes and maintains high-trust relationships with stakeholders and partners
• Utilizes relationships, organizational knowledge, and trends to identify and understand business needs and capability gaps
• Casts product vision and sets related objectives for development teams
• Maintains, grooms, and prioritizes product backlogs and transparently provides visibility of the same to all stakeholders
• Gathers, refines, and documents requirements including creation of user stories and acceptance criteria
• Utilizes experience and understanding of agile best practices to oversee, guide, and direct agile teams
• Performs user acceptance testing of backlog items and increments
• Provides leadership in sprint reviews, including ensuring appropriate stakeholders are engaged
• Effectively delegates appropriate activities to development team(s) as required
• Leads, oversees, and performs data cleanup activities associated with the enterprise API portfolio
• Leads, oversees, and performs documentation of related current state data process and re-engineering of the same, utilizing Six Sigma principles
• Administers the Bridgestone Developer Garage and Bridgestone Location Portal as required
• Leads definition of back-end connectivity related metrics, KPIs, and associated reporting
• Drives adoption of enterprise back-end connectivity platform across business units, borders, partners, and functions
• Provides platform adoption/utilization reporting and forecasting
• Provides product evangelization, consulting, standards enforcement, and education
• Partners closely with enterprise architects, solution architects, and agency technical leads to ensure solution designs are aligned with back-end connectivity vision and strategy
• Manages contracts, costs, financials, and forecasts for the enterprise back-end connectivity portfolio and provides business oversight of the same for any IT-funded portions
• Leads other various Enterprise Digital Services team projects and initiatives as required, including making contributions in the areas of front-end enablement, marketing technology, and e-commerce enablement
• Supports, works across, and influences a broad set of enterprise stakeholders including Core Tire, Mobility Solutions, Retail Operations, GCR, Firestone Industrial Products, CFNA, Latin America, Golf, Asia Pacific, Europe/Middle East/India/Africa, Small & Remote Businesses, IT, and others

Qualifications (years of experience, education, specific systems and credentials needed):

Required:

• 10 years of diverse, relevant experience in product ownership and technology, including digital marketing and/or traditional IT
• 10 years of experience with APIs, including REST, JSON, OAS, RAML, and API management platforms
• Ability to influence actions and coordinate activity across broad cross-border, cross-business-unit, cross-functional stakeholder groups without direct authority
• Outstanding communication skills, including fluency in the languages of technology and marketing, and the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership
• Experience managing strategic partner and/or agency relationships

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Marketing, or a related discipline
• MBA degree
• PSPO I or PSPO II certification
• Automotive, manufacturing industry, and/or retail experience
• Experience managing individual contributors

Bachelor's degree; 6 y+ years of relevant experience including 3-5 years management or direct/indirect leadership experience
Or Master's degree; 4+ years of relevant experience including 2-4 years management or direct/indirect leadership experience

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.