Technical Program Manager

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.