Staff Technical Program Manager

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll see your work on the road every day helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

In this position...

Success as a Staff Technical Program Manager in our team requires someone who is centered around product and engineering excellence with a bias for action.

You thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment; successfully partnering with a wide group of disciplines across the company. You will own cross-team initiatives identify best practices and bring your industry experience to bear on a company-wide scale.

You will engage with complex engineering programs demonstrating leadership and a strong command of the tools and process required to achieve the teams goals. You will lead programs in a principled way and lead by example centering quality and developer experience when the opportunities arise. You will have exceptional communication skills keeping up- and down-stream dependencies well aligned and all stakeholders well-informed.

Youre as comfortable writing clear and concise content for leadership as you are leading a system design meeting.

Ideal candidates will have experienced multiple product cycles involving software and services including up-and down-stream dependencies

What youll do...

Partner with key stakeholders to define scope prioritize and deliver major strategic initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.

Understand the needs of stakeholders across the company and use your influence as appropriate to achieve alignment on the prioritized initiatives.

Lead the defining and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics including Objectives and Key Results OKRs / Key Performance Indicators.

Implement and execute roadmaps schedules project plans and resourcing plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.

Lead team members on modern world-class software development practices including CICD and principled execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress dependency tracking issue triage backlog management and daily scrum leveraging tools like Jira).

Proactively identify manage and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.

Personally own the relationships with other divisions at Ford ensuring dependencies are met and quality of deliverables is high.

Embody the voice of the customer guiding your team to be data-driven in its decision-making.

Stakeholders will be heard inclusively and requirements / scope definition will be exhaustive

Priorities will be set based upon aligned principles

Direction will be set quickly and decisively

You will lead by example with accountability

Youll have...

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or similar related technical field.

10 years working experience in product technical program management or feature development on hardware software and/or services .

Familiarity with modern software tracking tools (ie: JIRA etc.).

Familiarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).

Demonstrated success leading complex large-scale cross-functional software programs.

Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering product and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post launch iteration

Even better you may have...

Experience coaching other TPMs improving processes and creating reusable frameworks that scale beyond any single program.

Expertise in Agile methodology.

Experience defining success metrics analyzing program data and using dashboards or experimentation results to drive prioritization and decision making.

Experience working with customers connecting technical delivery to customer outcomes.

Experience communicating program health trade offs and strategic recommendations to senior and executive leadership.

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 leadership level 6 and ranges from $132800-$250800.

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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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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