ADAS Strategy Director

At Ford, we're transforming the transportation industry by delivering higher levels of automation, continuously upgradeable performance, and seamless connected experiences. As the ADAS Strategy Director, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team to define the future of Ford's ADAS technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own Ford's global ADAS strategy, working closely with subject-matter experts and executive leadership to synthesize industry trends, portfolio needs, and corporate objectives into a forward-looking ADAS strategy.
• Define future ADAS experiences and enabling technology, partnering with engineering, product, and digital teams to define and refine key future ADAS customer experiences.
• Manage ADAS complexity across the portfolio, establishing and maintaining a 'menu' of ADAS system configurations with engineering, collaborating with technology platform and vehicle program teams to develop offering strategies for each vehicle program and region.
• Manage the ADAS investment portfolio within the technology cycle plan, ensuring sufficient funding to achieve ADAS objectives, supported by accurate and traceable modeling of resource requirements.
• Lead competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and external scanning for ADAS, maintaining a constantly refreshed, data-driven view of the ADAS industry, including competitive trends and threats, emerging technologies, and cost-reduction opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
• 10+ years of leadership experience in the automotive technology space, delivering multiple complex initiatives in cross-functional environments
• Experience translating technical initiatives into business and profitability analyses to ensure efficient capital allocation
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate in diverse, cross-functional environments
• Proven team-leadership experience, including working directly with senior and executive leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA
• Direct experience with ADAS technologies, including sensing (radars, cameras, ultrasonics), ADAS-specialized compute, and motion-control interfaces
• Direct experience leading strategic initiatives and technology unit and/or vehicle program milestones
• Highly technical background and demonstrated experience in the domains of the ADAS features being developed
• Experience with embedded vehicle architectures,ideally Ford's FNVx architecture,including roadmaps, constraints, and integration for highly complex and distributed systems/features on- and off-board