Sr Staff Technical Program Manager - IVI Platform

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.

As a Sr Staff Technical Program Manager - IVI Platform, you will provide software development process and project management for the RTD team (Real Time Domain) within the IVI Team (In-Vehicle-Infotainment Team), focusing on the Platform aspect of the development.

Responsibilities:

• Provide software development process and project management for the RTD team
• Identify potential risks in development and assess program impact, work with Engineering managers to mitigate risk
• Cross-functional and cross-team coordination and communication to help deliver committed project outcomes
• Work closely with software engineers, system engineers, testing engineers, and product managers throughout the project lifecycle
• Manage project schedules, identify blockers, potential issues and incongruencies, and clearly communicate them to stakeholders
• Lead external vendors on timelines and deliverables and take responsibility for milestone coordination between internal and external releases
• Drive several technical projects across vehicle software domains, helping set priorities for engineering

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 15+ years of experience in project, program or product management in software
• 10+ years of experience in software development or testing

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