Power Supply / Electrification TPM

In this position…

Success as a Technical Program Manager in our Power & Electrification layer 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 hardware & 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 hardware, 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, hardware & 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

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
• Familiarity 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
• Experience in developing control systems for low voltage system and/or electrified powertrain systems, such as high voltage battery control and power conversion ECUs, and/or
• Experience in systems engineering, software development, and hardware integration of Electrification functions and components

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 a leadership level 6.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6SP1

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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