V&V Engineering Program Manager

Fords Electric Vehicles Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the companys vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed entrepreneurial and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. Youll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively staying focused on only what matters and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

We are seeking multiple Verification and Validation (V&V) Engineering Program Managers (EPM)to support internal vehicle software validation initiatives.

This role leads cross functional testing and validation efforts working closely with Feature Assurance V&V and other stakeholder teams to ensure vehicle deliverables compliance and readiness targets are met.

The position supports a range of V&V initiatives including end to end testing OTA testing and compliance validation strategy and continuous quality improvement. Candidates should bring an agile mindset strong coordination skills and hands on automotive software validation experience.

What youll do...

• Lead and coordinate internal Verification & Validation (V&V) initiatives including endtoend vehicle software testing OTA testing and compliance and validation strategy execution.

• Partner with crossfunctional stakeholders to align validation plans test evidence and readiness status with vehicle deliverables and milestone requirements.

• Collaborate with Quality teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives including Prevent actions defect escape reduction and OTA process enhancements.

• Define implement and evolve V&V test strategies to improve coverage effectiveness and early risk identification.

• Support strong crossfunctional alignment across engineering quality and program teams to enable efficient validation execution.

• Apply technical project planning management and leadership to ensure successful development and delivery of V&V initiatives.

• Provide regular status reporting to management including progress risks issues and mitigation plans.

• Help resolve or facilitate resolution of technical and execution issues impacting validation delivery.

• Increase visibility of V&V activities by providing proactive updates through tools such as Wiki Jira Teams email and other communication channels.

• Communicate and present V&V project status risks and outcomes to a broad stakeholder and leadership audience.

• Proactively identify assess and manage validation and delivery risks developing mitigation and recovery plans when needed.

• Effectively utilize work management and project tracking tools (e.g. Wiki Jira project management tools) to maintain transparent plans status and contingency options for leadership.

• Apply agile principles to the planning execution and delivery of V&V activities to improve flow predictability and outcomes.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or Engineering

• 3 years of experience in automotivesystem validation or vehiclelevel testing

• 3 years of project management

• 2 years of experience in agile methodology

• Experience working in crossfunctional environments with engineering quality and program teams

• Understanding of endtoend testing concepts OTA validation and test strategy fundamentals

• Experience in creating project status in Jira dashboards

• Experience working in Jira FEDE Jama and TestRail

• Strong communication organization and stakeholder management skills

Even better you may have...

• Masters degree or MBA

• 7 years of experience in program management

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycles

• Background as an Agile trainer scrum master or agile coach

• Experience supporting quality improvement initiatives such as Prevent defect escape analysis OTA process improvement and FMEA

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.

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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