# Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,000-$192,900
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future.

As a Technical Program Manager in our Connected Vehicle Software division, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our software delivery is seamless, scalable, and high-quality.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with stakeholders to define, scope, and deliver technical initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple organizations across Ford.

- Actively engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and help achieve alignment on prioritized initiatives.

- Assist in defining and tracking success criteria and performance metrics, including Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), to ensure program health.

- Implement and execute roadmaps, schedules, project plans to enable Ford to meet customer commitments across all customer constituencies.

- Support and drive modern software development practices, including scrums, backlog grooming, and dependency tracking using tools like Jira.

- Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks across multiple engineering teams.

- Coordinate with other divisions at Ford to ensure technical dependencies are identified early and quality standards are maintained.

- Act as a voice for the customer within the engineering team, using data to help guide decision-making and prioritization.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

- 5–7 years of total working experience in program management, product or feature development involving hardware, software, or services.

- 3+ years of experience working in a technical capacity (e.g., as an engineer, developer, or systems analyst) or working very closely with an engineering team on complex software builds.

- 3+ years Familiarity with modern software tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).

- 3+ years Familiarity with modern software development practices & tools (continuous integration / continuous deployment).

- 3+ years Demonstrated success leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional software programs.

- 3+ years Experience influencing and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders from concept through launch and post-launch iteration.

- 3+ years Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

## Benefits

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- JIRA
- software development
- program management
- engineering

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