# ADAS Strategy Director

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- ADAS technologies
- Sensing (radars, cameras, ultrasonics)
- ADAS-specialized compute
- Motion-control interfaces
- Embedded vehicle architectures
- Ford's FNVx architecture

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA
- Direct experience with ADAS technologies
- Direct experience leading strategic initiatives
- Highly technical background
- Experience with embedded vehicle architectures