As a Project Manager, you will lead a Balanced Product Team, collaborating with designers and engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- PDO Leadership: Drive the delivery lifecycle, ensuring strategic alignment and unblocking technical teams.
- Technical Delivery: Actively participate in architectural design, technical requirement breakdowns, and system troubleshooting (GCP, Angular, Java/Python).
- Jira Management: Maintain rigorous oversight of complex project workstreams, agile ceremonies, and backlogs using Jira.
- Cloud & AI Integration: Drive the execution of Applied AI projects, integrating LLMs and Agentic AI workflows into enterprise applications.
- Act as the core Project Manager within a Balanced Product Team, driving the end-to-end delivery lifecycle from ideation to deployment.
- Maintain rigorous and meticulous oversight of project workstreams, epics, and the product backlog using Jira.
- Engage hands-on with the tech stack to support the engineering team—understanding API payloads, querying data (BigQuery/SQL), and navigating CI/CD pipelines (Terraform) & compliance.
- Translate complex business needs into actionable user stories and technical acceptance criteria.
- Develop and manage project schedules, resources, and timelines based on technical feasibility and business value.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and blockers across release trains.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in Technical Project Management or Software Engineering within a PDO or Agile environment.
Technical & Hands-On Skills:
- Strong understanding of full-stack development, specifically modern front-end frameworks (Angular) and backend languages (Python, Java, or Node.js).
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud Run) and cloud-native architectures.
- Applied AI Experience: Familiarity with or hands-on experience driving projects that integrate Generative AI, RAG, and LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Vertex AI).
- Ability to read code, write database queries (SQL), and actively participate in technical troubleshooting.
Tool & Process Knowledge:
- Expert-level proficiency in Jira and Confluence for managing complex projects, iterations, and advanced reporting.
- Deep understanding of software engineering disciplines (eXtreme Programming, TDD, CI/CD pipelines).
Soft Skills:
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts (like Agentic AI or microservices) to non-technical stakeholders.
What We Do
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.
