Portfolio Technical Program Manager - FNV3.x Cabin Climate Control and Heated Seats

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