# Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $213,512.00 - $279,225.00/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress.

Join the Ford Product Development team as a Technical Program Manager. You'll work on delivering breakthrough products and services that delight customers, utilizing Design Thinking & User Experience methods.

## Responsibilities

As a Technical Program Manager, you will:

- Lead and manage multiple validation and verification activities, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project plans.

- Develop and maintain detailed program plans, schedules, and budgets.

- Ensure alignment between testing activities and project timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.

- Manage dependencies for the engineering team, including procurement of test platforms and equipment.

- Provide guidance to the V&V team, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

- Lead internal bug triage meetings and coordinate with other teams to align V&V activities with overall project goals.

- Communicate program status, progress, and issues to stakeholders, including senior management.

- Manage go/no-go meetings and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements for testing.

- Drive closure to key issues and analyze defect trends and patterns to recommend process improvements.

- Drive continuous improvement of V&V processes and methodologies.

## Qualifications

You will have:

- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Automotive Engineering or a related field.

- 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

- 3 years of experience with project management software, managing integration for automotive projects, defect management, and hands-on experience in automotive embedded systems and software development process.

- 2 years of experience with Jama, Tableau, Jira, IBM Rational Team Concert, or similar tools.

## Benefits

We offer:

- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management software
- Jama
- Tableau
- Jira
- IBM Rational Team Concert
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Automotive Engineering
- Defect management
- Automotive embedded systems

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