Technical Program Manager
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Join Fords mission to revolutionize automotive manufacturing through innovative intelligent software. As a Full Stack Software Engineer youll be at the intersection of the digital and physicaldeveloping cutting-edge applications that bring data automation and intelligence to the factory floor. Youll help build the platforms that power our plants enabling real-time insights and resilient operations that scale with the future of mobility.
This is a great opportunity to drive the delivery of a key enterprise objective in building Fords flagship products bring Innovation in Manufacturing to have significant business impact. In this role you willlead and manage complex technical programs from inception through launch. You will be responsible for defining program scope managing timelines identifying and mitigating risks facilitating cross-functional collaboration and ensuring the successful delivery of high-performing and scalable solutions for Fords critical high-demand manufacturing will collaborate with a multi-skilled team to deliver innovative solutionsensuring that engineering teams maintain high standards of solution design code quality testing and get to work with a unique blend of engineers (software hardware controls) data scientists DevOps specialists automation experts manufacturing operations personnel and robotics specialists facilitating the ideation planning execution and scaling of Billion-Dollar ideasfor the manufacturing of iconic Ford products. This position requires an individual who is at the forefront of technology frontiers and believes in bringing the latest and greatest to Fords plant floor to build impactful use cases that can be industrialized with the latest is a rare opportunity to put your signature on how Ford manufactures vehicles.
About Ford Manufacturing Technology
Ford is transforming how vehicles are builtfrom traditional assembly lines to digitally connected intelligent manufacturing systems. At the core of this transformation is software: enabling smarter decisions predictive maintenance real-time process optimization and seamless data flow between machines people and the cloud.
Our teams build modern scalable applications that blend industrial systems with cloud-native architecture unlocking value from data streams at the edge to analytics in the cloud. Whether its reducing downtime improving quality or accelerating new vehicle launch readiness we develop the tools that drive Fords global operations forward.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Product Strategy & Roadmap:Define product vision strategy and the roadmap for the product or product family. This includes collaboration with Product Owners and key business Stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
- Requirements Gathering & Prioritization:Elicit and prioritize requirements from stakeholders across the teams balancing business needs with technical feasibility and resource constraints.
- Product Design & Development:Collaborate with Architects and product designers software engineers to design develop and launch new features and improvements to the product family. This includes creating detailed product specifications user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Product Discovery:Employ various product discovery techniques to identify and validate product opportunities.
- Product Monitoring & Optimization:Monitor platform performance user adoption and identify areas for improvement. This includes analyzing usage data from post launch conducting user surveys and gathering feedback.
- Stakeholder Management:Effectively communicate product vision strategy and progress to stakeholders across the organization including executive leadership engineering and business units.
- Customer Discovery:Regularly engage with users to understand their needs pain points and expectations. This includes conducting user interviews surveys and usability testing.
- Leadership Reviews:Prepare and present regular product updates and performance reviews to leadership.
- Change Management: Achieve organizational targets and business value metrics
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- 3 years of experience in a product manager or software engineering role with demonstrated experience building / product-owning critical applications for industrial use cases that demand a combination of business / manufacturing / technical prowess.
- 3 years of experience experience driving business OKRs through product development data analysis and user experience optimization.
- 2 years of hands-on experience with modern development practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) Paired Programming and/or Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD)
- 2 years of experience shipping consumer or business-facing products.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Even better you may have...
- Experience in working with Agile and Lean methodologies including defining and prioritizing product features and working with backlog management tools such as Jira
- Exposure to CaaS / GCP / MS SQL Functions and Services for building distributed applications.
- Exposure and experience with Ford Architectural standards processes and documentation.
- Proven ability to lead a team to deliver on large complex and ambiguous projects that are highly interfaced from end-to-end.
- Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven product decision-making.
- Proficiency in modern technology stack and familiarity with cloud infrastructure and AI technologies.
- High organizational planning and time management skills; ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced complex and global environment.
- Ability to communicate effectively with business team members on a global level and negotiate solutions and drive consensus across platforms.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to coordinate many services and a wide range of global business and technology partners.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building products that improve patient outcomes.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize effectively.
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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Salary varies depending on your experience and location.
This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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