Manager, AI Strategy & Portfolio Management

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Fords Central AI Team is the enterprise hub responsible for scaling AI and agentic solutions across the company. Behind every AI Bet that reaches an Enterprise scale decision theres a pipeline of opportunities that started as a rough idea got scoped got prioritized against everything else competing for time and funding and either earned its way forward or didnt. This role owns that pipeline.

In this position...

Ford is building a new capability at the center of our enterprise AI strategy.Reporting into the Central AI Teams Senior Manager AI Strategy & Communications the AI Portfolio Manager is responsible for running the intake and inventory process for every AI opportunity moving through Sandbox Functional Program and Enterprise Bet stages. This role is the operational backbone behind early portfolio decisions making sure leadership always has an accurate current view of whats in the pipeline what it will cost and what the tradeoffs are between funding one bet over another.

The ideal candidate is organized comfortable working with cross-functional teams to pull out details they havent fully thought through yet and able to turn a messy half-formed idea into a clean business case with a sponsor a funding ask and a clear next decision point.

Based in Dearborn MI this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week

What youll do...

• Manage intake of new opportunities across Sandbox Functional Program and Enterprise Bet stages running a consistent process so every opportunity gets evaluated the same way
• Maintain the portfolio pipeline and opportunity inventory as the single source of truth for whats in flight what stage its at and whats changed since the last review
• Prepare prioritization inputs tradeoff views and start/stop/scale/sunset recommendations for leadership decision forums laying out the choice clearly enough that a decision can be made in the room
• Partner with business functions to clarify the business problem sponsorshipvalue hypothesis business casefunding need and readiness to progress for each opportunity before it goes in front of leadership
• Flag opportunities that are stalled underfunded or missing a clear sponsor so they dont sit in the pipeline without a decision
• Support the Strategy & Comms Lead in building decision packages and progression materials by supplying accurate up-to-date pipeline data and analysis

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

• 3 years of experience in program management portfolio management business operations or strategy roles involving intake and prioritization of competing initiatives with skills that include:

  • Strong organizational skills and comfort owning a live inventory or pipeline that changes constantly and needs to stay accurate
  • Ability to extract a clear business case problem value sponsor funding readiness from a stakeholder who hasnt fully articulated it yet
  • Experience preparing tradeoff analysis or prioritization materials used in a leadership decision-making process
  • Comfort working across a matrixed organization leveraging cross-functional leadership skills
  • Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to synthesize a messy set of inputs into something clean and decision-ready
• 3 years of Excel/PowerPoint or related skills for building tradeoff views pipeline trackers and prioritization materials

Even better you may have...

• Masters degree
• Experience in automotive technology or another large-scale enterprise environment managing a multi-initiative portfolio
• Background in venture corporate strategy PMO or business case development where you evaluated new ideas against a fixed pool of funding
• Familiarity with how AI or technology pilots typically progress from experiment to scaled program and what readiness signals predict success
• Experience building or maintaining a portfolio tracking tool or system used by multiple stakeholders
• Direct experience partnering with technical or product teams to translate a capability into a funding-ready business case

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 childcare 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 $115500- 218100.

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.

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sponsorship is not available for this position.

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