We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll 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...
In this role, you will be responsible for cross-organization initiatives working with teams across Ford: business, design, product, system engineering, software development, testing, safety, regulatory, calibration, release, and quality.
- Success as a Technical Program Manager requires someone who is centered on 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 software programs in a principled way, and by example when the opportunities arise. You will have consummate communications skills, keeping up- and down-stream dependencies well aligned, and all stakeholders well-informed.
- You’re 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 you'll 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 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].
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 immaculate execution of a technical plan (including management of milestone progress, dependency tracking, issue triage, backlog management and daily scrum leveraging DevOps tools like Jira or ADO).
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-driving in its decision-making.
How you'll do it
Stakeholders will be heard inclusively
Priorities will be set based upon aligned principles
Direction will be set quickly and decisively
Qualifications
You'll have...
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar related technical field.
6+ years working experience in product or feature development on hardware, software, and/or services
3+ years working in a technical capacity or working closely with an engineering team
3+ years working with modern DevOps tools (ie: JIRA, ADO, etc.)
Familiarity with modern software development practices (continuous integration / continuous deployment)
Experience leading cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines (engineering, product, design, QA, etc.) on high complexity projects throughout the entire product lifecycle
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder…or 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 Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $112,680-212,760.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's 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: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
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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Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.
