# Portfolio Technical Program Manager - FNV3.x Cabin Climate Control and Heated Seats **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $99,100-$166,200 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/70677?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c3052aff-918 ## Description We are seeking an innovative Portfolio Technical Program Manager to join our Technology Platform Programs (TPP) team at Ford Motor Company. As a Portfolio Technical Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in simplifying software, driving Ford's minimum complexity vision, boosting quality and speed, and optimizing programs to make vehicle execution significantly more efficient. **Responsibilities** - Own TPM execution support for Cabin Climate and Heated Seats features within the FNV3.x Platform - Create and maintain feature-level roadmaps and execution plans that reflect OKRs, quality priorities, capacity constraints, and program timing commitments - Proactively identify, assess, and communicate risks across feature delivery using structured problem-solving, data, and clear mitigation paths - Use Jira and related reporting tools to track work, dependencies, milestones, readiness, delivery health, and cross-team risks with consistent reporting - Support planning cycles that connect feature strategy, capacity, execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes - Coordinate governance forums, decision cadences, escalation paths, and change-control practices that support execution clarity and program integrity - Escalate execution gaps, timing risks, dependency concerns, and decision needs when outcomes, quality, or customer commitments are at risk - Engage stakeholders proactively and build alignment across engineering, product, platform, release, validation, safety, regulatory, and quality functions - Communicate technical and program information clearly for engineering and cross-functional audiences to enable timely decision-making - Define, track, and improve feature-level success metrics, using insights to support continuous improvement and corrective actions - Perform impact assessments and support scope-change management to ensure timing, quality, and customer implications are understood and communicated - Contribute to technical discussions by understanding Cabin Climate and Heated Seats feature behavior, system integrations, hardware and embedded software dependencies, and platform-level delivery implications - Support scope-cost-time-quality tradeoff discussions by providing clear data, execution status, and risk visibility - Help create a blame-free operating environment where risks are surfaced early, blockers are addressed directly, and sustainable solutions are pursued - Support teams through platform transitions using Ford Management System principles to reinforce alignment, accountability, operating cadence, and execution discipline **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field - 5+ years of experience in technical program management, product delivery, systems engineering, software development, embedded systems, vehicle systems, or related technical delivery roles - Demonstrated experience supporting cross-functional feature delivery with hardware, embedded software, vehicle systems, platform milestones, validation, release, and quality dependencies - Proficiency using Jira or equivalent tools to manage work, dependencies, dashboards, readiness tracking, reports, and execution transparency - Experience creating and maintaining feature roadmaps or execution plans aligned to objectives, milestones, capacity, quality priorities, and changing business needs - Ability to identify risks early, communicate them clearly, support mitigation plans, and escalate when timing, quality, or delivery outcomes are at stake - Strong stakeholder management skills with experience building alignment and communicating effectively across engineering and cross-functional audiences - Experience supporting scope management, change control, impact assessments, and tradeoffs across scope, cost, time, and quality - Ability to define measurable success metrics and use data-driven insights to improve execution, risk management, and feature delivery performance - Working knowledge of vehicle systems integration, technical interdependencies, and hardware/software delivery implications - Ability to work through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and reinforce accountability, operating cadence, and customer-focused execution **Benefits** - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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 - Technical Program Management - Jira - Vehicle Systems Integration - Embedded Software - Hardware Dependencies - Risk Management - Stakeholder Management - Scope Management - Change Control - Impact Assessments ### Nice to have - Cabin Climate - Heated Seats - HVAC controls - thermal comfort features - body electronics - 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