Senior Technical Program Manager, Digital Transformation

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Long Beach, CA, USA
Hybrid
109K-183K Annually
Senior level
Automotive
The Role
Leads enterprise digital transformation programs across Ford’s electric vehicle ecosystem. Responsibilities include roadmap development, prioritization, dependency and risk management, KPI dashboarding, project-tool administration, stakeholder alignment, operating cadence management, and executive reporting. The role coordinates cross-functional teams across digital, technology, business, and operations while bridging modern platforms with legacy systems and supporting adoption of scalable digital capabilities.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position...
As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing Ford’s electric vehicle future by connecting strategy to execution. You will lead the delivery of high-impact transformation initiatives across Ford’s EV digital ecosystem, driving roadmap development, prioritization, dependency management, and execution discipline.

This role sits at the intersection of innovation, operations, and enterprise-scale delivery. You will help bridge the gap between EVDD innovation and the stability of legacy systems, working across cross-functional teams to build the scalable digital capabilities required for Ford’s next generation of mobility

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

• Serve as the coordination lead for an assigned workstream portfolio, ensuring alignment across the internal ADVEV Digital Transformation team and with broader organizational dependencies.
• Define and manage quarterly roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Establish and run operating cadences that drive accountability, timely decision-making, and clear escalation paths.
• Maintain the workstream risk register and proactively lead mitigation planning.
• Define KPIs and build dashboards to track ADT team delivery, execution health, and business outcomes.
• Configure and maintain project planning tools, ensuring strong data quality, consistency, and reporting discipline across the ADT team.
• Partner with the Business Architect and Organizational Change Management team to align stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and support adoption.
• Define and maintain prioritization frameworks tied to vehicle milestones, business requirements, and transformation goals.
• Use prioritization frameworks to set, communicate, and justify execution priorities across the portfolio.
• Keep the lead TPM informed of portfolio progress, key updates, blockers, decisions, and emerging risks.
• Identify gaps across people, process, tools, and execution; step in where needed or advocate for the right resources to close them.
• Contribute to the broader success of the team by supporting shared goals, improving ways of working, and helping others succeed.

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role.
• Strong program management skills, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining focus on outcomes and execution quality.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
• Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution.

Even better, you may have...
• Experience supporting automotive, electric vehicle, connected vehicle, or large-scale digital product organizations.
• Experience working across both modern digital platforms and legacy enterprise systems.
• Strong accountability, consistency, and follow-through.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational discipline.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplifying processes and improving team effectiveness.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex, fast-moving environments.

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 salary grade 8 and ranges from $109,100-$182,800.   
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 with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • Experience leading digital transformation, business transformation, or enterprise modernization initiatives
  • Experience as a Technical Program Manager or in a similar delivery leadership role
  • Program management experience, including roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive-level reporting
  • Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously while maintaining outcome and execution focus
  • Experience integrating cross-functional teams across business, product, technology, and operations
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills
  • Experience using Jira or similar tools for planning, tracking, and team execution
  • Experience supporting automotive, electric vehicle, connected vehicle, or large-scale digital product organizations
  • Experience working across modern digital platforms and legacy enterprise systems
  • Strong accountability, consistency, and follow-through
  • High attention to detail and organizational discipline
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Continuous improvement mindset with a bias toward simplifying processes and improving team effectiveness
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex, fast-moving environments

Ford Motor Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ford Motor Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Ford Motor Company.

  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage start on day one with options that include zero-premium plans, free mental health support, and wellness resources. For represented hourly employees, health plans are described as low-cost with strong coverage value.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with company match and additional company contributions is available from day one, alongside life and disability coverage. Pension eligibility in certain situations and financial-planning support reinforce long‑term security.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave, fertility, surrogacy, and adoption benefits, plus a ramp‑up program for returning parents, reflect a family‑focused package. Flexible Family Care days and generous time‑off options help address short‑term caregiving and personal needs.

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The Company
HQ: Dearborn, MI
175,633 Employees
Year Founded: 1903

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.

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